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Baby's First Product Recall
So while looking for something else entirely today, I discovered that one of Felix's toys has been recalled by the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Apparently, if it is broken in a certain way a part of it could become a choking hazard.
This is very sad since he really does love it, but I called the company and sure enough, they are having me send it back to them in exchange for a substitute toy (that is unlikely to be as much fun).
At any rate, I am not someone who meticulously checks labels for age-appropriateness and I am lucky that Felix is not a chewer. (What he really is, is a taunter, who goes around pretending to put things in his mouth, or beside his mouth so that he can be corrected over and over again. It never gets old.)
It was just random fortune that made me learn about the problem in the first place, so I could have gone on with the toy in the living room for a small eternity. But there's something about the actual recall that makes me unwilling to cling to this beloved, undamaged item. Once the thing has been named hazardous, keeping it around means something different. It's a little like a more dangerous version of waltzing out of the house while one's mother's voice hovers in the air behind one: "Go ahead, don't take a sweater, but if you're cold you can't complain."
It is standard practice for parents to check on recalls? Does anyone greet the dawn of the new month by flipping the wall calendar over, popping a heartworm pill in the dog's mouth, saying "rabbit, rabbit" for luck, and doing a quick check to the Consumer Product Safety Commission Recalls list?
Not that it isn't interesting, of course. All sorts of things beside toys get reeled back to their makers. June saw the recall of dive computers that display an incorrect "elapsed dive time" which can encourage divers to ascend too quickly, and possibly get the bends; some sandals that can cause lacerations; dangerous hammock stands; and treadmills that have "unexpected speed changes."
The obvious, goes without saying bottom line is that one must keep an eye on little critters. (This came as a hard lesson years ago when the terrier was a wicked pup and ate a needle, after biting it in half- what do you think he is, a pig?- first.) And when it comes to choking hazards, as someone asked me recently, what are people with multiple children supposed to do when the older ones favor little tiny Legos that look like candy and delicious magnets?
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