Is your girl a Barbie collector? If so, has she added this 50th Anniversary Barbie Glamour Doll
This 50th Anniversary Barbie Doll designed by Robert Best is a remake of the fashion featured on the original 1959 doll.
Some say this Barbie doll resembles Miss California contestant, Carrie Prejean, in the 2009 Miss USA Beauty Pageant. Do you think so?
When buying educational toys and games as gifts for kids, safety comes first, not how nice the toys look or how much the children want them.
Check the Toy to see if it’s sturdy and well-made. For babies and toddlers, check there are no small pieces that come loose or seams that come apart.
Follow Age Advice. If it says ’3 and older’, it’s there for a reason, that is, it has small parts that are a choking risk.
Choking is the Most Common Accident, so watch out for toys with small parts. Under threes are especially at risk as they put everything into their mouths – if a toy or part of one fits inside a toilet roll tube, it’s too small.
Avoid Toys with Loose Pile Fabric or Hair That Sheds Easily; sharp points and edges; finger traps; loose ribbons and long neck ties on children’s costumes; small toys sold with items of food.
Watch Out for Toys That Make Loud Bangs or Single Loud Tones as they can damage hearing. Never allow children to hold noisy toys to their ears.
Second-Hand or Vintage Toys May Be Made to an Old Standard or None at All. Some may have dangerous toxins like lead paint, and water and tear may have made them unsafe.
Look for Warnings. When a toy says ‘supervision required’, you need to play with the child.
Go Through the Toys Regularly to clear out any broken and damaged ones. Don’t give them away.
Are PVC Toys a No-No? Many toys used to be made from PVC (polyvinyl chloride) and safety campaigners fear babies could ingest toxins like mercury, dioxins and phthalates.
If plastic has a ’3′ inside the universal recycling symbol or a ‘pvc’ or ‘v’ beneath, that’s PVC.
Have you ever come across baby educational toys that leave you wonder if they can really stimulate and educate your baby or kid?
Let me share with you my buddy’s bad experience with a Chinese-made baby educational toy that contained a pack of foam cubes with pictures and matching words on each face.
She bought the pack of alphabet building blocks during an educational toy sale thinking that it would be perfect way to help her six-month-old daughter learn to talk.
Imagine her shocking face when she found that the matching words were riddled with obvious spelling mistakes such as umbrella spelt ‘umberlla’,yacht spelt ‘yatch’, and ‘x’mas tree’ had a rogue apostrophe!
She went back to the store and asked for another correctly-spelt pack. To her amazement, she and the manager of the store found the same spelling blunders on all the other packs on the shelf.
Although the Chinese-made misspelt alphabet building blocks have since been moved off the shelves, my buddy and I are still baffled as to why such lousy quality baby educational toys could get through quality control and didn’t end up in the reject bin.
