I recently came a cross this article: Train your kids to swallow a choking hazard with Lego “Fun Snacks” and at first of sort of discounted it as someone over-reacting.
I thought about it some more, and I can see his point, at least where smaller kids are concerned, but in general I don’t think they need to pull them from the shelves. Parents need to just do their jobs and be diligent and careful when buying them for their younger kids.
I think too many parents are looking to avoid certain things all together rather than teaching our children the proper skills to handle them.
What do you think? Should they pull the Lego fruit snacks off the shelves because they could possibly cause more kids to choke on the real Lego’s? And by the way, the little tiny Lego’s say 4 and up for the simple sets, the more complicated sets say something like 7 and up.
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i don’t think they should be forced to pull them – but i do think it’s a really dumb product. i know i wouldn’t buy anything like this for my kids – for the exact reason that i don’t want them thinking it’s okay to put legos in their mouths. i’m sure i’m not the only one who will be purposefully avoiding the product.
I don’t think they should be pulled. In my opinion, that’s going a bit far.
LOL… this kind of falls under the whole magnetix being pulled from the shelves after a little girl ate about 12 of them. I think that it is something parents have to be responsible about. If you have a child that is prone to putting foreign objects in their mouths then it probably isn’t a great idea. I can see this being a big hit with kiddos in the lunchrooms though…fun idea!
There’s always going to be something. Always! I’m pretty darned diligent about keeping a safe, childproof house. Still, my son managed to find his way into a locked armoire and find an old purse of his grandmothers’ and swallow several ancient Excedrin PMs. My daughter got a 2nd degree burn from a plastic playground slide. No matter how careful we are, kids are going to get into stuff. We just need to be as alert as we can be, and take ownership of accidents when they happen instead of blaming somebody else. A child could choke on a piece of bark from the yard, a scrap of paper, a broken toy, etc. etc. etc. We can’t raise them in a bubble!
I don’t think they should pull them. Kids choke on hot dogs too. Are we going to not sell hot dogs?
Parents have to be responsible for what they give their children and what they teach them. My 17 month old puts crayons in his mouth. No matter how many times I tell him not to. Should I be mad at Crayola for that? No I just have to do my job and keep them out of his reach until he is old enough to handle them properly.
Erica
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trisha
Maybe I’m too lax about stuff like this, but I think they are fine as they are. If you start pulling things like this, what’s to stop pulling the rest of them? You can find little toys that look like Spiderman, Cars, or any of the other fruit snacks pretty much anywhere – check the party supply places and those toys at places like Chuck E. Cheese. Little eraser-toys look EXACTLY like fruit snacks.
Neither of my kids were mouthers, so this is totally not an issue for me. If I had a child who tended to put stuff in his or her mouth, then yeah, I might not get these for him or her. I also wouldn’t have toys that small around anyway. If a child is too young or has issues with toys in his or her mouth, then this isn’t the product to be purchasing for him or her…but let the rest of us buy it if we choose to.
I think they should pull them. One accident will be one too many. Candy should not look like toys. That is just wrong. As a mom you know how hard it is to watch your kids every single second, especially since Abbey has started to crawl and Jake might leave a toy behind that she should not have. Yes, you can tell them and teach them, but as you know, in one ear and out the other. They absorb so much, but how quickly they can forget at that age. It seems they only remember the stuff you do not want them to remember.