A mom and grandma share recall worries
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I talked to local parents yesterday for our story on the massive toy recall by Mattel. Not everyone with whom I spoke got to be in the story, so I thought I’d share a little more of what I learned with readers of this blog. I was particularly struck by my conversation with Catherine Mahoney of Verplanck, who was shopping at Target in Mount Kisco with her mother, Cathy Elliott of Croton-on-Hudson, and 11-month-old daughter, Lola. (I just love that name!)
Catherine told me she was upset by the frequency of the recalls from Mattel. She pointed out that the company’s Fisher-Price brand just recalled almost 1 million toys earlier this month. “I think I will probably stay away from their toys for quite some time. Christmas is coming, so I’ll probably just stick with something else,� she said.
The grandmother said she thinks it might be time for parents to return to the basics. “I think you just have to have lots of wooden blocks and sticks and make your own toys,� Cathy said.
Catherine said she’s ready for wood toys considering new worries in the news about the safety of ingredients in plastic, like Bisphenol A, an organic compound thought to cause cancer and hormonal changes.
Keeping up with all the recalls becomes a challenge in large families, too,
who trade toys among cousins, Catherine pointed out. Lola has four cousins between the ages of 4 and 6 who share toys. “My sister-in-law is all freaked out because they have so much stuff around, you don’t know what’s what, where you get it from and when you got it. Her son’s birthday just passed and so she has all these toys and she doesn’t know where they came from. You go into their playroom and it’s like a toy store, so to go through all of those toys and to check them is a lot of work,� she told me.
What are your worries when you hear about these ongoing toy recalls?
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on Wednesday, August 15th, 2007 at 11:59 am by Julie Moran Alterio.
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