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good and safe toys
Friday, January 23rd, 2009Cyrus is almost 2.5 years old and so far we’ve only been to Toys R Us once. We didn’t even buy anything from there. We did buy a couple of toys from places like Target. Over all, we are not too fond of toys sold at these big toy stores. First of all, we don’t really like plastic or battery operated toys. After that big recall from Fisher-Price, who can be sure what’s in those plastics? Secondly, we like to support local small toy stores. These small-medium size stores actually carry some really nice toys, including wooden ones.
I want to recommend two great toy brands that I usually see at those local toy stores. They both have great varieties and both emphasize the importance of toy safety.
Melissa and Doug: Here is a part of their safety statements.
No matter how carefully we design our products, we believe there’s no substitute for TESTING, TESTING, and MORE TESTING. The key to assuring the safety of our products is not simply insisting our factories follow our instructions, but to go one step further and AUDIT, INSPECT, AND TEST, not only once, but at various phases of the production process. This is something we’ve always done.
Additionally, we specifically test our paints and coatings very frequently, to be sure our toys meet or exceed government recommendations limiting heavy metals and lead in children’s items. We have cabinets full of thousands of passing test reports, and these passing results have been verified by 3rd party independently accredited testing laboratories, considered by many to be the best scientific laboratories in the world.
They have some great soft toys for babies as well as some big wooden toys for 3 year old and younger. We have a stacking wooden train similar to the following product.
My recent purchase from them is a set of 12-piece beginner puzzles. They are made out of wood so the little ones can’t break it. Other than farm animal scenes, they also have vehicles, wild animals, and sea life.
