He held his burned little thumb and finger up and cried his eyes out. I told him “I bet you won’t do that again, huh?”
You ruined a possible brilliant Navy career. 
Posted on 07/19/2015 1:14:31 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Consumer Reports want parents with children under the age of six to stop buying laundry detergent pods. That announcement was released Thursday after growing concern over accidental poisoning cases were called in to various American Association of Poison Control Centers.
In 2012 and 2013, researchers conducted a two-year nationwide study that reviewed more than 17,000 incidents, all involving a children exposed to the colorful capsules that resulted in harm. In 2015, a little over 6,000 cases were reported and the year isn’t over yet.
In many of the reports, children thought they were unwrapping a piece of candy. Local pediatrician Dr. Toya Corbitt said these reports needs to be taken seriously.
“I agree with the recommendations. I don’t think parents with children age six and under should have them even hidden. It is not worth the risk,” said Dr. Corbitt.
Procter & Gamble released a statement regarding their efforts to help safeguard children:
We take every incident of accidental exposure seriously and believe these accidents are preventable. Less than 1% of the calls to Poison Control centers were related to laundry pacs, and the vast majority of these calls to Poison Control centers resulted in minor or no medical treatment. Today, we are seeing encouraging signs that the rate of accidents relative to the number of P&G laundry pacs sold is declining at a rate of 28 percent. New products often require new use and storage habits, and this data suggests that industry-wide efforts to increase education and improve packaging are working. We will continue efforts to promote safe use and storage, and to raise public awareness of the importance of precaution – not just under the kitchen and bathroom sinks, but wherever laundry products are stored.
P&G has taken a number of steps to help prevent accidental access, including a TV and print advertising campaign promoting safe use and storage of laundry packets along with educational content on our brand and partner websites and social media pages. We’ve partnered with organizations like Safe Kids Worldwide, the American Association of Pediatrics and the American Cleaning Institute to share information through their networks and websites.
We have made the packaging opaque so contents are not visible and developed a more secure package closure with three safety latches that are difficult for children’s smaller hands to open. This package also includes prominent safety warnings on the label to keep out of reach of children. We will continue efforts to promote safe usage and storage to raise public awareness of the importance of precaution – not just under the kitchen and bathroom sinks – but wherever laundry products are stored.
Additionally, we have taken a leadership role with the Consumer Product Safety Commission, Poison Control centers, consumer advocacy groups, and other manufacturers to establish common safety standards for all liquid laundry detergent pacs through the American Society of Testing & Materials (ASTM) forum. In this forum, the work group evaluated a number of safety enhancements for the packaging and the form, taking special care to not create unintended consequences for the majority of consumers who use laundry pacs safely.
Today, laundry pacs are used in over 26 million US households and are growing in popularity because they are innovative, convenient and more sustainable. We will continue to work with these groups to establish common standards and ongoing education programs that help prevent accidental access to these products, and to engage with stakeholders including legislators.” If your child is exposed to the laundry detergent, the national Poison Help Hotline is 800-222-1222.
Why not teach the children that if Mommy or Daddy did not say it is okay to eat, don’t eat it?
Even very young children are capable of learning such things.
He held his burned little thumb and finger up and cried his eyes out. I told him “I bet you won’t do that again, huh?”
You ruined a possible brilliant Navy career.
LOVE that video! The first little girl in her pink footed pajamas actually SMILED with such satisfaction at her feat.. that you gotta love it!
That second set of twins was pretty nifty the way the iniator pushed the crib side back up to cover the tracks and mystify the parents.
Good thing that there were no baby cams back in the day, my mom would have had a heart attack or sent me to infant reform school as a hard case.
;>)
My first daughter was a notorious “climber”. I guess every family has the “one” that turns regular colored Mom hair to gray. She was close to 2 and not talking.. which had me worried (the pediatricians said she was fine.. she’d do it in her own time). Long story short, I turned to stir spaghetti sauce.. and in that brief few seconds, she climbed on top of the kitchen table and fell off.. hitting her head. She had a mild concussion and we spent the evening in the ER so they could monitor her behavior. The next day, she was talking in FULL sentences. I say know if I knew the table header would have sparked her talking.. I’d have knocked her off the table a year earlier. :)
My grandson has every D imagineable. OCD,ADHD, etc. he has also been diagnosed as bi-polar. He’s 8 now but when he was 1-2 yrs old I went over and helped daughter put slide locks on the tops of the doors because he would escape. Even after that, one morning one of her neighbors brought him home. While she was still sleeping he had used a chair with something else on top of it to reach the top of the door and unlock the locks.
He is one of those really smart, out of the box thinkers now. He does huge puzzles from the inside out. He’ll find a middle piece and start there. Lol
“He does huge puzzles from the inside out.”
That’s amazing.
LOL!
Well, up until then she had no complaints.
Like the old joke about the child not speaking until age five.
Junior had been silent until suddenly at dinner, he pushed his plate away and said, “Mother, I can’t eat this!”
The mother, overcome and close to tears, “Oh my! You can speak and speak very well. Why have you waited so long to speak?”
“Well things were going along nicely and I had no reason to complain until you served this darned broccoli!”
Go ahead. Turn that outlet on.
Plus those pods are hard to poke into the tray on my front loading machine.
"Well I could lock him in a cage."
"Ma'am, there is no need to be sarcastic."
"I'm not, look outside."
The MP looked and saw the son had climbed out of the bedroom window, down the downspout, and was running down the street.
After his capture, ("What are you feeding this kid? Wheaties?") the MP conceded that maybe the cage idea had merit.
That is a scary story! My middle son was a wild card when he was little. At 18 he was killed by an illegal alien who ran a red light. I had warned my son when he was 16 that I had a premonition that he would die young. He laughed at me.
Yes. I have never understood why anyone would buy those things.
There was something like that recently with tiki-torch fuel being mistaken for iced tea. Or something similar.
Consider that when I was a kid I rode my bike without a helmet, played on the school playground which had devices like tall slides and swings that could result in serious injury, had a chemistry set and used fireworks. Somehow without government nannies I survived my childhood alive and uninjured as did almost all the other kids. Were there injuries..sure. It was a right of passage to get a few stitches, have a few injuries falling off your bike and a few kids might break an arm or leg. The idea that our little snowflakes should go through childhood without a scratch and then in school be protected against " micro aggressions" or anything disturbing is giving us a generation of metrosexual wimps... Look at Obama as a prime example.
Wow, an amazing little guy. Two of my 4 have special needs and as hard as they are to parent, there are always gifts. Enjoy your grandson.
My friend's son got hit with the mother's curse. May you have two just like you. Except in his case it is three.
He has threatened on occasion to stick them in a barrel.
A stupid product anyway.
We do enjoy him. Actually other than the one girl, who is now a teenager, he is my fave. I know I shouldn’t say that but we have such a good time together. He has become my ‘boat buddy’. He loves spending time on our boat, just me and him.
Awesome!
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