Chinese-made Toys, No way!
Chinese-made toys contain dangerous chemicals!
Toys are expected to be hot seller this holiday season. No matter what, just to maximize profit is what really matter to these retailers and manufacturers. Is this a prize for a cheap labor and bigger profit?
Retailers around the world including nations around China scrambled to pull popular toy brands off the shelves. This is after selling all of them to not suspecting consumers, our innocent children. Too late! The chemicals from these Chinese-made toys were found to mimic the effects of the so called date rape drug. Spin Master Ltd. Distribute these health hazard toys in North America.
These Chinese-made toys are being sold by all retailers here in America and that includes Target Corp. and Wal-Mart stores. Are these manufacturers and retailers exists just for mere profit? What the heck! Know what? This is substituting toxic chemical with a safe type of glue during manufacturing. What is the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission doing?
Are these Chinese companies don’t know better? Are they using cheap products or just cutting corners? Their issue about child labor has not been resolved yet. And now there is another bigger issue. And come to think of it, it is about safety issue of children — of our children.
Recognized one of these? Aquadots, Bindeez, Moose Enterprises of Melbourne, Australia.
Merry Christmas “Baby Boomers”, Merry Christmas “Mom” and “Dad”
The “baby boomer” generation is generally defined as those born between 1946 and 1964. Since there was indeed a “baby boom” after the second world war.
“Baby Boomers” are the most educated and successful generation ever. They are taking an active role in their own career and wellness as well. This is a switch from their parents’ generation, who trusted that “doctor knows best.” Distrustful and skeptical, “Baby Boomers” are more likely to seek out information for any given situations. As they reach their golden years, this penchant for challenging authority will no doubt carry over into investigating the best solutions to any given problems.
Far from growing old graciously and fading away, the generation that taught us to rock and roll, to shop till you drop and to be “Me”, with attitude, with style, is doing it their way, and better than anyone else before. And as life expectancy continuous to increase, they will be doing it for longer period of time.
The rebellious and carefree attitudes that epitomized the “Baby Boomer” generation have begun to change as they enter the mid-century mark. In their youth, they could afford to fight the establishment, mock the authority, and champion causes. They were looking for something to rebel against, and their parents were an easy target. Now, they are the establishment and their parents are older and need assistance and not resistance.
The first baby boomers are now in their 60’s and 50’s and are just as “Me” as ever. And unlike their parents, they want to remain active and to carry on working. They want to rediscover learning — often something different from the profession they have practiced in their working lives.
Bill Clinton, the first “baby Boomer” president, is also the youngest former US president at age 56. California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and action star Sylvester Stallone are in their 50’s. Gray is cool for the “Baby Boomers”. Harrison Ford, who was recently voted “The Sexiest Man Alive” at age 56 by People Magazine. Some relatively older women are also cast as sexy stars, like Sigourney Weaver, Cybil Shepherd and Susan Sarandon, who are in their 50’s. And surely our next president would be a “Baby boomer”. Wanna bet?
Most of all “Baby Boomers” want to keep looking good. Plastic surgery, face-lifts, Botox, Spas, gyms are the booming business to be in. As “Baby Boomers” got adapted and older, they never quite forgot the obsession with youth. For them, what in means to be middle-aged is now re-defined. No more or no longer is it “over-the-hill”. Now, when they want to do something, it is a new opportunity to do what they want to do. It’s “baby Boomers” second chance to relive their youth.
Recognize any of these? Jackie O, JFK, Women’s Lib, Mary Quant, Mrs. Robinson, Viet Cong, My Favorite Martian, hot pants, bell bottom, Love Story, Let it be, “I like to teach the world to sing”, and disco fever. hahaha
Merry Christmas “Baby Boomers”! Merry Christmas “Mom” and ” Dad”!
