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Shocking Lawn Dart Recall!

October 11, 2008

Anyone living in suburbia in the 70′s and 80′s can’t possibly forget Jarts.  For those of you too young to remember, Jarts were also know as Lawn Darts, heavy metal sharp pointed aerodynamic projectiles intended to be thown high up in the air so that they stick in the ground inside a ring target, for [...]

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Bad Gifts – Toys We Do Not Like – The Drumsticks

October 8, 2008

Take note, if you arrived here looking for a gift for your favorite little drummer, this is not the page for you.   Go buy a set of real drumsticks for kids and let them bang on some pots and pans or a rock. I was talking with a friend the other day who asked why [...]

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Cloth Diapers by day, G Diapers by night, Tushies Diapers for Travel – Our Triple Hybrid Diaper Strategy.

August 31, 2008

Before the Boys were born, Mrs. T. R. decided that cloth diapers were the way to go. Between the environmental impact and the health benefits of not having maybe toxic plastic and super absorbant gel against your little babies’ skin, cloth was in. After searching high and low for a diaper service that would come [...]

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How Young Is Too Young for Clone Wars?

August 29, 2008

WordPress gives you the ability to see what search terms people used to find your blog posts, and I’ve been seeing a whole lot of these types of searches on this blog lately: “is clone wars scary for six year olds” “too young clone wars” “how old for clone wars” “clone wars under seven” And [...]

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Toy Room Purge – Stage 1 – Denial

August 21, 2008

A week ago we reported on the plan to remake the Toy Room in Toy Room Purge – Introduction.  Well, now we’ve started and much like any addict, the Toy Room is in serious denial that it has a problem. Case in point, Mommy (aka MrsToyReporter) spent a few hours in there a few nights [...]

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Gifts For Kids – 8 Tips For Choosing Unique Kids Toys

August 20, 2008

Last week we published Gifts for Kids – The 6 Biggest Mistakes as a guideline for how to avoid gift giving disaster.  This week we’re following up with advice on how to give that perfect unique gift for a child. Know Your Audience Use what you know about either the child or the parents to guide [...]

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Give Books

August 17, 2008

This is Mrs. Toy Reporter here with my first post and some more book suggestions. While it is very easy to have too many toys (trust me on this, I am an expert on having too many toys) I think it is impossible to have too many books. Kids love them and parents will thank [...]

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How Young is Too Young for Star Wars

August 16, 2008

Both of our two boys (5.75 year old twins) have been begging me to let them watch Star Wars lately, Speedy in particular.  We don’t watch a great deal of TV in our house, trying to keep it under 5 hours a week of select programming, mainly from PBS (We’re big fans of Fetch!), and [...]

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Melissa & Doug Deluxe Wooden Chomp and Clack Alligator Push Toy Review

August 15, 2008

Deluxe Wooden Chomp and Clack Alligator Push Toy by Melissa & Doug First, ask yourself a question.  Do the parents of the child for whom you’re shopping dislike clacking?  Because there is be a great deal of clacking involved with this toy.  It’s not overly loud, but it’s clacky. It’s also a great toy for [...]

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Gifts for Children – The 6 Biggest Mistakes

August 14, 2008

The following guidelines should be followed for giving gifts to other people’s children. To those of you with children, these guidelines may seem obvious. But just think, there are people without small children, people who don’t have a section of their brains dedicated to scanning the ground for choking hazards as they walk through a [...]

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