{"id":242,"date":"2007-11-17T14:19:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-17T21:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/unsafe-toys-and-your-wallet"},"modified":"2007-11-17T14:19:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-17T21:19:00","slug":"unsafe-toys-and-your-wallet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/unsafe-toys-and-your-wallet","title":{"rendered":"Unsafe toys and your wallet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With holiday season in full sales-display mode it\u2019s time to really pay super attention to what you buy for your children \u2013 especially if buying toys.<\/p>\n<p>22 toys were recalled in October \u2013 and with more and more hitting the stores form now until January sales time \u2013 I\u2019m guessing more will be recalled \u2013 but you might already have bought them or are in a hurry and get caught up in the shiny pretty mode&#8230;and not the look at where it is made mode.<\/p>\n<p>The Consumer Product Safety Commission and the recalls can be found here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cpsc.gov\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.cpsc.gov<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Click on the tab for recall and product safety \u2013 you can then look by month or by products&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>You can also sign up for email recall notices at the site.<\/p>\n<p>Also there is a toy recall site: <a href=\"http:\/\/toyinfo.org\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/toyinfo.org<\/a>   &#8211; but beware &#8211; it is a site of the Toy Industry Association.<\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t tell you what to buy or not buy for your children \u2013 but please \u2013 place your child\u2019s health above all else.  Children do not care how much you buy them or what you pay for it \u2013 that\u2019s all hype put out by the toy companies and the stores and why?  They want you to go into debt before January 1 only because they ant to make tones of their yearly income before January 1.<\/p>\n<p>Yes I am a cynic.  But I am also a parent and a developmental psychologist and my goal as both is to have optimal development and that, to me, does not mean caving in to the ads.  It means teaching children the difference between want and need \u2013 and that means you have to disagree with the TV programs that keep preaching to children to tell your parents you need&#8230;x,b,y,z,a,c,d,etc,etc.<\/p>\n<p>But do remember you are the adult and you are in charge; your children and your wallet will be the happier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With holiday season in full sales-display mode it\u2019s time to really pay super attention to what you buy for your children \u2013 especially if buying toys. 22 toys were recalled in October \u2013 and with more and more hitting the stores form now until January sales time \u2013 I\u2019m guessing more will be recalled \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[343],"tags":[280,281,278,282,279],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psychology-and-parenting","tag-cspc","tag-need","tag-optimal-development","tag-unsafe-toys","tag-want","post-wrapper","thrv_wrapper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}