The Stay at Home Mother

Fool me once, shame on you - fool me twice, shame on me. As a parent, I refuse to sit back and wait for the next big recall to happen without doing something about it.

Here are some tips that we can do as parents that will allow us to be more proactive with toys instead of reactive to the disturbing number of toy recalls that are on the rise in Canada...

If you remember in one of my recent blogs and in my column - I wrote about the dangers of lead contamination in paint used on Thomas the Train toys (which we had five of, and had to send back).

But with the two latest recalls by Mattel (and on a much larger scale - 18,000,000) it has spurred on Ottawa to take a closer look at safety standards - and possible new measures to protect Canadian consumers...