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Comment on The Acorn Store, Santa Monica, CA by Adam

Adam — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:32:31 +0000

The Acorn Store is proud to announce our new website http://www.theacornstore.com . Thanks for all your support! ACORN STORE

Comment on This Week's Prize: My First Dice Game by Mike

Mike — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 02:25:34 +0000

Very cool. I haven’t heard of this game before. Can you buy it in the USA or is it only available in Germany. Thanks for sharing. I’ll consider adding it to my site All-About-Dice.com.

Comment on Perhaps the Best Train Song Out There? by Patricia

Patricia — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 09:47:04 +0000

I recently came across your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I don’t know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often.
Patricia
http://lioneltrains.info

Comment on Small Businesses Are Being Hurt by New Toy Safety Law by shoppersdream

shoppersdream — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:31:25 +0000

I agree with you, it’s interesting how people who are missed inform seem to think they are experts. Keep truck’n

Comment on Small Businesses Are Being Hurt by New Toy Safety Law by Vijay Owens

Vijay Owens — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:13:42 +0000

This is all so true. I own a consignment shop that sells gently used baby and kid clothing (and maternity and nursing clothing) and am not willing to assume the risk of selling gently used toys even though people ask several times a day. I’d love to be able to do it, but I don’t want to get sued or shut down by the government. It seems like the government only wants the biggest manufacturers and retailers to stay in business, the very businesses responsible for the unsafe products brought to market in recent years.
If a local farmer wants to make bamboo-handled butterfly nets for my store out of pesticide-free bamboo that grows on his land and organic cotton mesh, does he have to pay crazy fees in order to prove to the gov’t that this toy is safe for children? While who-knows-what is being sold at big box stores around the nation made of all kinds of plastic? It’s nuts. Oh but the big companies are “too big to fail” and yet the little guys get taken for all they’ve got if something goes wrong.
This mom of two is longing for simpler times.
-Vijay Owens
Sugar Snap Consignment

Comment on Small Businesses Are Being Hurt by New Toy Safety Law by Teresa

Teresa — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:08:01 +0000

Great post! I would love to reprint it on my blog if you approve, http://www.weeBgreen.blogspot.com. Thanks for the information and helping spread the word.

Comment on But Kids You Have To Go In The House… by Kayce

Kayce — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 20:44:56 +0000

My 3 yr old loves to sing along with these songs I definately can’t wait to get a cd for him so we can listen to it in the car too

Comment on But Kids You Have To Go In The House… by Jen Collins

Jen Collins — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:34:10 +0000

When adults like to listen to the same songs as the kids… you know you have a good thing!

Comment on But Kids You Have To Go In The House… by Cecilia

Cecilia — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:13:43 +0000

I love that Charlie’s songs speak to children on their own level. They aren’t condescending. That and they’re engaging to children. I played some of the songs on her MySpace page for my children yesterday and they completely forgot that they had asked to watch a video. That’s powerful!

Comment on New Report by Congressional Research Service by Jen DeGrace

Jen DeGrace — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 20:03:00 +0000

I was one of those work at home moms – until I closed my business due to the CPSIA. While others have chosen to work through the stay of enforcement and hope for more lasting reform, the simple fact that SAGs are not legally bound to the stay means that should any one of 50 SAGs choose to enforce it today (and several have stated their rabid intent) there is nothing stopping them. I was not willing to expose my family to such potential liability. I started my business to help support them, after all.
While I regret the impact on my own business, I’m even more upset about losing access the unique, safe, handcrafted-in-the-US products I value for my kids. It’s not easy teaching them that respecting the planet includes making careful purchasing decisions. How will we teach them when all that is available are the mass-produced plastic junk toys we are force fed by the giant toy companies that abused consumer trust and started this avalanche in the first place?