Scary product recall

[BrokenArts]

I realize it was the toy box.  I agree much too much of a bed for a 22 month old, kid can't enjoy what its really about anyway, he's too little.  Bed usage really depends on the child and what the parents feel is adequate.   I've got a 13 yr old daughter, I know about the beds.  I still feel its a bit stupid to put such a young child in a bed like that.  Of course the parents will be punishing themselves the rest of their lives.

[Lady Neysa]

Why do you think my 13 year old daughter looks like she is 18? Those wonderful hormones in Chicken and Beef to make the chickens and cows grow fatter faster.  Well, they also help a child develop much faster...  Thanks alot corporate america, you have just brought me MORE gray hairs... like I needed them.

I feel your pain there PurpleDragon.  I also have a  13 year old daughter who could easily pass for 17 or 18...I'm getting the gray hairs too...more than once I've had to give guys the "move along, she's 13" death glare.   

I absolutely agree with you about the hormones in meat causing kids to develop faster, I've said that for years. I've read there's a lot of controversy surrounding this issue, but I believe it's true.

[Lady Neysa]

Not just China, blame it on the US for importing all this Sh!t, and giving away our jobs.  Its all planned. 

Its time to wake up people. 

As for that bed, what the hell is a 22 month old sleeping in that bed anyway?  Stupid parents, should still be in a crib.

My son could climb out of his crib by 22 months.  We put him in a twin bed rather than have him fall on his head.  The top of the mattress was considerably closer to the ground than the top of the rail on his crib.

I can't remember how old my son was when he first climbed out of his crib-but it nearly scared the life out of me. Luckily he wasn't hurt.  I remember at the time thinking that he was waayy too young to be climbing out of the crib, and too young to be in a bed.  We opted to get a simple no frills toddler bed that only sat a foot or so high off the floor. We left the guard rails off, figuring they could possibly be more of a hazard than him falling 12inches to a carpeted floor.  We never had any problems with it.

[tigerlilly]

I can't remember how old my son was when he first climbed out of his crib-but it nearly scared the life out of me. Luckily he wasn't hurt.  I remember at the time thinking that he was waayy too young to be climbing out of the crib, and too young to be in a bed.  We opted to get a simple no frills toddler bed that only sat a foot or so high off the floor. We left the guard rails off, figuring they could possibly be more of a hazard than him falling 12inches to a carpeted floor.  We never had any problems with it.

We have the same problem right now.  My little monkey of a daughter will soon find her crib converted into a toddler bed.  She's getting reeeeealy close to being able to climb out.  We're also going to have to reformat the rest of her room from "baby" mode to "toddler" mode.  She's only 15 months.  Cripes!

[gypsylakat]

... my toy chest didn't have fancy hinges... but I don't remember when I got it... horrible that it takes events like this to make people realize that stuff like this can be dangerous...

[Lady Neysa]

Sometimes it just doesn't occur to people that something could be dangerous. It doesn't mean they're bad, just perhaps uninformed. This is a little off topic but important nonetheless...

I'm ashamed to admit it, but here's something that  happened to me a long time ago that could have been prevented.
I've always known you shouldn't ever put a crib near a window with blinds because of the danger of a child getting wrapped up with the cord.  However, it never once occured to me that blind cords could also be dangerous to pets.  My cats had sunned themselves in windows for years with no issues. Then one day I was in the kitchen on the phone, the cat walks in and jumps up on the windowsill like normal.  A few seconds later I hear a scuffling behind me and turn around to find the cat struggling, with the blind cord wrapped around his neck and he's being lifted up and hung by the cord.  I believe the cord was originally around his torso then when his weight made it start going up, he started thrashing and twisting and wrapped it right around his neck.  He was all tangled up. I grabbed a knife and was trying to free the poor cat while he's being slowly lifted up inch by inch making it even harder for me to free. I finally managed to get a finger under the cord to cut it without harming the cat. I was thankful I saved him-he completely shredded me, but  it served me right.  I can't imagine how I would have felt if I hadn't been home and then walked in on such a horrible scene. As terrible as it was I'm  grateful it wasn't a child instead.  After that valuable lesson I learned the importance of wrapping up the cords so they don't dangle.  I was always so focused on keeping my babies safe it honestly never occured to me the cats were at risk too.
Idiot lesson learned..

[Kiss-me-Kate]

My daughter was out of her crib when she was about a year and a half.  We couldn't keep her in her crib, so we cut out the middle man and got her a toddler bed instead.  No more thuds onto the hardwood floor.

I threw out our plastic reusable water bottles and purchased stainless steel instead.  I don't use plastic in the microwave either.

We try to eat organic whenever possible availability wise, and financially speaking.  My daughter is twelve (going on thirty  ) and hasn't experienced the rapid development like some of her peers who most likely eat the "conventional" fare available.  If we cant get organic, I try to get local and/or foods labeled claiming to no have no hormones etc in it.
Not that you can always believe those either.

[Ojy]

It goes to remind you of something that pediatricians have been saying for years. Do not give infants or toddlers toy chests with hinged lids. Actually, do not give them toy chests with lids at all, even the tupperware kind. They think it is funny to close things in them, and how horrible would it be to come home and ind out they had sufocated a pet or something even worse, by closing it in their toy chest? Kids are kids after all, the toys wont stay in the box long enough for the lid to matter.