How To Buy Safe Kids’ Toys
Posted by Owen Jones in Uncategorized, tags: babies, children, education, family, gifts, government, health, leisure, other, parenting, recreation, safety, toys, UncategorizedWe are lucky in the West, or most of it anyway, because the European Community, north America and Canada have strict laws on how safe kids’ toys ought to be.
In spite of this, there are lots of unscrupulous people about who will import cheap junk toys that could be hazardous to children, which means that anyone purchasing kids’ toys has to have their wits about them.
Having said that, the larger stores do do their best to weed out the rogue importers and in fact most of the dangerous children’s toys are weeded out before they go on sale. Be wary in discount shops and open-air markets though.
Once you get your safe kids’ toys home, the time to be cautious begins. This is because most accidents in the home involving toys do not happen to the person that the toys were purchased for. This is because adults trip over them. The staircase is the most dangerous
The first thing that anyone buying toys must look for is the label. In the United States this is known as the CPSC (Consumer Product Safety Commission) and in Europe it is known as the Certificat European (CE). However, be cautious, because these labels can be faked very easily.
If you are not accustomed to purchasing toys for children, the next indicator to look for is the age range for which the toy is intended. In general the marker will give 5+ or 7-12, so you still have to use some judgment.
Educational toys are important to children and one of the best of these that you can build on as the child gets older is Lego. Duplo is the form of Lego that is most suitable to very young children.
This is because Duplo building blocks are larger than the normal Lego building blocks so that small hands can manage them easily.
One of the biggest risks for very young children is choking. Young children put everything into their mouths but Lego has made these Duplo building blocks too large to swallow.
As your child gets older, you can add to the Lego set right up to adulthood. There are Lego electric motors for teenagers and there are many adults that have carried on using Lego well past their Twenties.
If however your child does have an accident with a toy, you must try to find out how it happened instantly after seeing to your child.
If the accident was plainly the child’s fault or someone else’s, you can report it if you like, but if the difficulty came about because of a problem or failure intrinsic in the toy, you should report it.
The first place to report the toy is to the local council and then you must inform the manager of the shop where you purchased it. Hold onto the toy until the wheels of bureaucracy turn enough to get around to you
They will come back to you and you may save other children and their parents from going through the same problems that you did.
Owen Jones, the writer of this article, writes on a variety of topics, but is now involved with Frontline Figures. If you want to know more, please visit our website at Great Kids’ Toys.
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