Toxic metal in kids’ jewellery from China?!!

Hi folks!


Alarmed by the news at TheStar Online today.


As I am currently spring-cleaning my house in preparation of Chinese New Year, I had contemplating of throwing away some toys which I don't think my kids are playing anymore. 


As Shone seems to like putting things into his mouth a LOT lately, the news "Toxic metal in kids’ jewellery from China", really makes me shiver....


Time to check and screen thru the toys thoroughly! No matter where the toys are made. It's good to check through the materials. Hope our local authorities can also assist us to screen through these toxic materials used especially for kids' product!!

Take care and take note folks!


Cheers!

MomBloggersPlanet Cutest Baby with TOYS Contest

What is your children favourite toys?

For Shone (DOB: 20 June 2009) his favourite toy would be ball...I think all boys loves toys like cars and balls isn't it :)

As for KY(DOB: 25 July 2006), her current favourite toy(yes she changes her favourite toy pretty fast!) is a life-like size of soft toys(look at the picture above, they are same size as her as if her buddy!!):

When we were a first-time parent, my husband and I were more crazy about getting toys for KY than she is. However, we found out that most of the time, KY is only interested to play with the price tag card or the toy boxes rather than the toys itself!

Nevertheless we find that the usage of TOYS in early childhood learning plays a part in nurturing their creativity, motor skills and it is what is essential to kids besides, eating, sleeping and poo-ing :P. Playing is very important to a child. And toys plays a big part of it.

Here in the picture(above), KY is stacking the cube to build as if a castle like home for the bee? haha..or was it a beehive after reading her yet another toy, "Right At Home" clothbook which has an activity whereby they can place each animals(bee, horse, fish etc) into their own(right) home! Very nice toy indeed which I personally loved! I often asked KY to put all animals back home to go to bed together with her as part of her bedtime routine or when she refused to sleep. :P Another trick of mine!

However, I feel that toys does not restrict to those pricey and of course specially-designed branded ones...toys which can be found around the house(and safe one of course) can be used to nurture their creativity as well.

Just like these two pictures, the toy that KY is playing and having so much fun is nothing but clothes peg, but she and her cousin, Zoey(DOB:27 Sep 2007) can spend so much time assembling and wearing them, playing pretend games as if they are the princesses for the day! How fun is that!

And toys to us, is life-saver in a sense, especially during travelling. We cannot do without toys in the car, like what Shone is having right now(picture on the left) is a simple plastic hammer toy(which cost only RM2 at Tesco), this toy can keep him entertained while we drive back to my in-law's place or when we went home to visit my parents.

Oh yes, before I finished my story about toys...like to share with you all some good news!

For the month of August, August 09 theme is "Cutest Baby with TOY(S)". Check out the contest details here

And this time , YEAH!! Cheers again to many mommies(me included) who missed their previous prizes ....here they are again lovely prizes sponsed by AliceWonders andPhotoBookMalaysia:

1x FIRST PRIZE

· - One Medium Landscape or Medium Portrait HARDCOVER Photobook by PhotoBook Malaysia (worth RM144)

· - One bag of our choice (pick ANY bag) from AliceWonders (worth from RM50-RM200)

1x SECOND PRIZE

· - One Medium Portrait or Medium Portrait Classic SOFTCOVER PhotoBook by Photo Book Malaysia(worth RM80)

1x THIRD PRIZE

- One Large Landscape POSTER by PhotoBook Malaysia (worth RM68)

3x CONSOLATION PRIZE

· - One PurseHook each from AliceWonders (worth RM20)

The First and Second Prize winners will be automatically qualified for the 2009 Cutest Baby of the Planet contest (will be held on January 2010 with more great prizes).

So folks what do you think about toys and what toys brings much fun to your child? Care to share? Hear from you all too!

And if you wanna win some cool prizes from AliceWonders and PhotoBookMalaysia, don't forget to send your entry for the contest organised by MomBloggersPlanet! The contest ends on 15th August 2009! So hurry!

Cheers!

BabyIbu Giveaway: leanalittleshop.com

As mommies I bet we all loves buying or scouting toys for our kids…lately one of the blog owner – BabyIbu is having a giveaway for an online store- leanalittleshop.com which sells quality toys.

One of the items I love from leanalittleshop.com is My Good Manners Cloth Book (see picture below) which I planned to get for KY.

This is a perfect book for teaching good manners to our kids…the content is interactive and cute! Besides cloth books mean it'll not get torned and is washable..so can be passed down from KY to her little sibling...a green way too right ;)

I have got (a similar version) is Right At Home Cloth Book which KY reads it every night..putting each animals in its own home to sleep before she goes to sleep herself.

So check out the store if you are planning to get some safe and non-toxic toys for your precious ones....

Cheers!