Unless you live under a rock, you've probably seen that big name toy makers are recalling millions of toys for lead content, harmful magnets, etc. This CANNOT be allowed to continue!
Write to the toy companies and tell them that you will not be buying any toys this Christmas season! Show them that they cannot allow their manufacturers to cut corners!
Instead of buying lead pellets for your kids to chew on, try some of these ideas this holiday season:
1) Horse riding lessons: Find a stable nearby and sign little Piper up for a month of pony riding bliss. Wrap up a pair of cowboy boots, patent leather english boots, a riding helmet and some spurs.
2) Gardening implements: Buy a spade, a hoe, and a cultivator fork, fence off a corner of the backyard and tell them that come spring, they can plant whatever their little heart desires. Show Taylor how to grow a green bean teepee.
3) Camping gear; No cutesy little plastic Spongebob crap, but real tin pots and pans, a warm sleeping bag, and a real tent. Make plans to go camping together.
4) Music lessons; Guitar, drums, clarinet...Let them choose.
5) Backyard enhancements; Buy a Rainbow play set, build a sandbox, even just a kid-sized pull-up bar will keep them out in the backyard longer than you'd think.
2 comments:
I like #3, who turned you into a camping gear snob?
My Father. A notorious sadist, he took us camping in the dead of winter, miles from civilization, with only a matchbook and a toothpick to help us survive.
Another time, he took us on a trek through the South Dakota Badlands. Short on water and G.O.R.P., we were eventually forced to eat our dog.
I left home before he found his newest love: Nude mountain climbing & scorpion wrestling.
Nostalgia eats my brain...
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