10 Most Dangerous Toys of 2009

O.k. I just read through the list and why they are hazardous..The reasons are just plain stupid, choking and poking of eyes? I understand protecting your child and trying to keep them from all forms of danger, but seriously? I remember when I use to play with toys that were made from metal.....and I am fine! I think we are over babying our children....it's o.k. for them to scrape a knee once in an awhile or find out that mud tastes terrible....That's what makes kids.....kids. Stop making everything such a scary and big deal!

Heck! When we were kids!!! We had childsafe toys! etc.! My Mother,used too take the plastic "Hotwheels" track! And whip our butts with welts,included! I was a very Happy Good Boy! Too recieve my first "Red Ryder" B.B Gun!!! My little bro & sis! Never complained about really ever be'ing hurt! Complained and cried like little babies,because it stung,a little!!! Is All!!!!!!!!! It's not Toys that hurt kids! It is dumb kids,that do'nt know how too walk and chew bubble gum! and they fall!!! Reason=They do'nt know how too tie their shoes!!!!!!!

So I guess that BB gun is out of the question this year.

Since things are tight again this year, I thought I would start my Christmas shopping early. I want to get a not too expensive toy for my great-nephew who is 2 years old. But to my surprise, all of the toys I looked at including the Fisher-Price and Playskool toys are made in China. I will not put my family’s children at risk by purchasing anything from China. The Chinese have poisoned and killed their own babies with contaminated formula, poisoned our children with lead paint on toys, poisoned and killed our pets with contaminated pet food and the list goes on. Why should I take a chance that anything from China is safe? It seems that we Americans only care about price, not quality, and China knows that. So why should they bother to make safety an issue? They know we will keep buying their products. If you love that child you are buying a gift for, please check where it is made. I discovered a store in Barrington, IL called Norton’s USA that sells only American made products. I bought Isaac’s Christmas presents there so I don't have to wonder about safety. Wouldn't you rather keep that child you love safe rather than to save a couple of buck?

My family was poor when we grew up. One year for Christmas all my father could do was wrap up an old tool box and put some beat up screw driivers, a hammer, a wrench and a saw in it. At seven years old I followed my dad around the house and "helped him" do all sorts chores that kids today have no understanding of.
Our toys are today are safer, softer, less educational and less meaningful. They are purposely designed to squander time that should be spent with family.

I would rather be poor.

It's all fun and games until someone pokes an eye out!

P.S. You'll shoot your eye out!!!

This list is stupid, I have a 2 year old and a 3 month old baby and the day a book becomes dangerous is the day that people have gone mad. Well, looks like today is that day. I'd give my kids most the toys on the list and not think twice about it. The only damage going to come from them is I might bash my toe over the countless hundreds of toys they already have. But serious, this is a dumb list, It seems like the writer had 10 minutes to put a list together and just looked at the first 10 wal-mart toys and made that list. I mean for real, couldn't you of done your job a little better and actually found DANGEROUS toys?

hello people its called WATCHING YOUR OWN CHILDREN!!!!!. only you know what what your kids can have. im so sick of these people saying oh this is dangerous and that is dangerous. hello. we didnt have car seats when we were kids and im still alive. and look at all the toys we had growing up. most if not all had some sort of lead in it and we are still alive. its called being a responsible parent, plain and simple.

boy when i was smal;l we played with lead toys b-b guns broke sticks got a piece of string to make a bow an arrows played cowboys an indians
we all grew up ok so what is wrong with the world today
im still around and im 55 years young so did i go wrong notttt

This almost reads like a PETA inquisition. Are guns that scary. Let me present the definition of "Political Correctness" since it also applies to civil liberties, and I apologize, the author is unknown to me; "A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media which holds for the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end."

The Curious George Book dangerous??? IF a NEWBORN baby can rip that thick fiberboard apart to begin with I'd think they'd be more dangerous than a BOOK!!! When I was a child we had metal toys, little tiny pieces, car seats with no padding, and we survived...Maybe because we weren't raised wrapped in cotton and actually allowed to learn from experience...not raised by technology and sitting in front of computer games.

Dark Knight Batman
Batman's ears made of two 1" each of pointed, rigid plastic. Toddlers may fall on these inflexible protrustions, and with the potential of penetrating and blunt force injuries.

YOU'VE GOTTA BE FRICKIN KIDDIN' ME!!! Oh yeah, a 1" piece of plastic can really puncture right through a kid, huh? These are the dumbest reasons ever.

Better not give them a hard rubber bouncing ball - eye trouble for sure. And while you're at it, lock those wooden spoons and measuring cups up. Here's my tip: when buying for a child who has idiots for parents, get the safest toy possible. Children need to be supervised, otherwise ANYTHING can become a bad toy.

Please tell me this list is a joke! No wonder so many kids these days are brats. They must be bored as hell because their parents are afraid to buy them toys!

What are we suppose to do, just put our children in "bubble rooms" and allow them NOTHING to play with. EVERYTHING is hazardous if the parents are not watching their children. And that is the bottom line!!! Give them the safest toy ever and a child left unattended they will find a way to make it a HAZARD! They will EAT it or HANG it around their necks OR poke themselves in the eyes BUT IF parents are WATCHING their children you TEACH them DO NOT put that in your mouth, DO NOT poke your eyes, DO NOT put that around your neck. Its called GOOD OLÉ PARENTING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Robert -- I agree. I'm 61 and did those same things. My parents did their job and parented. These days if it even looks like a gun it's off limits to kids. If it throws any kind of projectile it's off limits to kids. If a parent has to check on their kids at any time then the toys they are playing with are off limits. My brothers and I knew better than to take our toys apart or we got the belt and didn't get to play with them anymore. But kids can't be punished these days either. I remember once when my dad was going to be working a couple states away and would be taking his belt with him, mom had him cut her a switch off a nearby tree. And when she had worn that down to a nubbin she had a neighbor cut her another. These days that would be considered child abuse. In my day it was behavior modification and my parents raised 4 well behaved boys who knew how to play with their toys without some watchdog group telling them how or what they could or couldn't play with.

America is way overprotective with everything.
TV and new try to make people scared of toys, sicknesses which are just made up oh gotta love this country

Why ban just the Curious George book? Any book has the potential for life threatening paper cuts!