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Infant Car Seat Recall
Nov 4th
The Consumer Product Safety Commission issued a recall today for the Britax Chaperone Infant car seats
The issue, pulled directly from the release: The harness chest clip can break and pose a laceration hazard. Due to its small size it also poses a choking hazard.
Water Bottle Warning
Oct 28th
While our son is still in the non-metal sippy world yet, I thought this warning was worth passing on. The story aired on our local news channel (WPVI-6, Philadelphia), but you can find the story here on their site.
The short of it is that a six year old girl was drinking from a metal water bottle with metal grooves in the neck -the one in the picture in this post — and her tongue got stuck and eventually swelled to the point it became life threatening. She ended up in the hospital for four days, three of them in ICU More >
Color me skeptical
Oct 8th
After reading this article by James Rainey in the LA Times, I thought I would take the chance to say again: any and all reviews on this site are done without payment and the products have been purchased by our family (or entered the house as a hand me down).
Mr. Rainey hits on a form of advertising/marketing I have long despised: pitching products/shows on local news segments as though they are actual news — or as though they are from non-biased reviewers. If the person reviewing the product is getting paid directly or indirectly by the company that produced the product, More >
Road Trip
Oct 5th
Not cool, I know. We took the easy way out. Rather than fly someplace exhilarating and fun for the whole family (me, Wifey and the meatball), we took the easy way out and decided to pick a place in driving distance.
So we set out on our 14 hour drive to Nashville to visit family, followed by a cross-Tennessee drive to Gatlinburg and the Great Smoky Mountains. Since I am not a travel review site, I will leave the tourist reviews out — but I can say that I have always loved Nashville and the Smoky Mountains were amazing.
Overall, it More >
Another Fisher-Price Recall
Oct 2nd
Fisher-Price has recalled its Little People Wheelies Stand ‘n Play Rampway due to the possibility of a tire coming off the cars and becoming a choking hazard. You can find more information, including the model numbers, here at CPSC.gov.
Fisher-Price Recall
Sep 30th
Fisher-Price had a fairly large recall of products that you can find here on the CPSC.gov site. The recall includes: Baby Playzone™ Crawl & Cruise Playground™, Baby Playzone™ Crawl & Slide Arcade™, Baby Gymtastics™ Play Wall, Ocean Wonders™ Kick & Crawl™ Aquarium (C3068 and H8094), 1-2-3 Tetherball™, Bat & Score Goal™ — but make sure to check out the recall for extra information and pics.
Abbott Voluntarily Recalls Certain Similac® Brand Powder Infant Formulas
Sep 23rd
UPDATE: Lot numbers can be found here at the Abbott site (pdf) (9/24/2010)
From the Abbot Press Release: Abbott Park, Illinois (NYSE: ABT) — Abbott is initiating a proactive, voluntary recall of certain Similac-brand, powder infant formulas in the U.S., Puerto Rico, Guam and some countries in the Caribbean.
Abbott is recalling these products following an internal quality review, which detected the remote possibility of the presence of a small common beetle in the product produced in one production area in a single manufacturing facility. The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has determined that while the formula containing these beetles poses More >
It all starts at home
Sep 17th
I want to make sure I am the best dad I can be for my son, but I have come to realize that simply being here goes a long way. While I want to do far more, I realize there are children out there that deal with far less.
Before I was a dad, I had a “suck it up” mentality — I could be empathetic thinking I knew what it meant to suffer, but never sympathetic. Crappy family or none at all — that’s no reason for your current actions. I didn’t have a clue and I still don’t. More >
They Might Be Giants
Sep 15th
If you are a dad — or soon to be a dad, then you have most likely heard the horror stories of television for children. Anything Disney produces is like crack. Once they get a taste, they want more and more until you can not only recite full episodes by memory but you can also animate an entire episode yourself with a pencil, crayon and a few sheets of paper.
But there is a diamond in this rough. Enter They Might Be Giants. I have liked these guys since I was a kid. I grew up listening to them and More >
Not my story to tell
Sep 9th
When I was in college, I written a poem for one of my classes (I forget which — probably a writing 101 class) — but it was read and graded by a senior that was in the major. Since I was reading a lot of books about World War II and the Holocaust, I chose that topic for the poem. I couldn’t (and still can’t) get the images out of my mind so I wanted to get it down on paper.
The senior feedback: It wasn’t my story to tell. At the time, I thought it was ridiculous. Otherwise, stories More >
