15 Toys NOT To Buy Your Kids This Christmas Kudos to The Huffington Post for flying the "Inappropriate Kids Toys" flag loud and proud last week. Includes some brand new material, seamlessly blended with some old favourites.
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When Good Toys Go Bad According to a shocked (shocked!) mother in San Jose, the previously innocent Little Mermaid Shimmering Lights Ariel doll has turned potty mouth, reportedly adding the phrase "you're a slut" to its usual...
Childhood Obesity Guerilla Campaign The Health Promotion Switzerland foundation came up with this creative campaign to raise awareness of the issue of childhood obesity.
Stickers with the headline “Every Fifth Child is Overweight”...
Having digressed a little from the bread-and-butter ”Inappropriate Stuff For Kids” material of late, I’m delighted to parade… the Babies Drinking Beer gallery. Enjoy
Great optical illusion billboard ad for a paint company, pitching “Natural Finish Colours”. Achieved by cutting out strips that are the actual shape and size of the roller strokes.
April Wright had the scare of her life when she awoke in the middle of the night to find her four-year-old son Hayden missing. He was eventually found but not until he had gone on a strange and sad journey that is difficult to believe.
Police say the boy managed to break the child locks on the doors, open a beer he found from his grandfather’s cooler, and then slip into his neighbour’s house and steal five Christmas presents from underneath their tree. He was found at 1:45am wandering the streets wearing a little girl’s brown dress (one of the presents he took) and drinking. He had to be taken to the hospital to be treated for alcohol consumption.
The boy’s father is in jail, and his mother says that’s why he tries to run away from time to time: “He runs away trying to find his father,” she said. “He wants to get in trouble so he can go to jail because that’s where his daddy is.”
Read more details here and watch the video report below.
When I squeezed its tummy I couldn’t believe my ears. I recognised the tune, but the words were certainly not traditional. Luckily my children are too young to understand.A spokesperson from Humatt, the distributor for the China-made toy, said that the confusion between “jingle bells” and “paedophile” likely arose from the fact that the man providing the voice for the toy could not clearly pronounce certain sounds. When his singing was sped up, and made higher in pitch, the words were further distorted.
The Humatt spokesperson assured,
We’ve slowed the song down and it definitely says Jingle Bells. But we have recalled them now just in case anybody might take offence.
Available in a range of trendy colours, it’s this season’s must have fashion accessory.
Providing a 15 foot zone of protection and a 30 second electrical pulse allows you enough time to safely escape a dangerous situation. A bold laser sighting system enables accurate aiming and an integrated LED light illuminates dark spaces to improve your line of vision. Compact and lightweight enough to be carried in a hand bag, backpack, briefcase or side holster. The Anti-Felon ID system ejects tiny, serialized tracking tags upon discharge to provide evidence of use.
Kudos to The Huffington Post for flying the “Inappropriate Kids Toys” flag loud and proud last week. Includes some brand new material, seamlessly blended with some old favourites.
LEGO goodness returns to the blog in some style, with the LEGO Digital Camera.
Now all the fun of LEGO bricks is engineered into a real digital camera. The LEGO Digital Camera looks like it is built completely from LEGO bricks, but it can not be taken apart. LEGO bricks can be added to the top and the bottom so kids can integrate it into their building creations. But this is not a toy. Its a full functioning 3MP digital camera featuring 1.5″ LCD screen, built-in flash, fixed focus and digital zoom. The camera holds up to 80 photos at a time. Let your imagination go wild.