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Comment on Fabuloso looks good enough to drink by jlsimons

jlsimons — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:41:45 +0000

Especially if you’ve been drinking Fabuloso. (The mind numbing, that is.) Thanks for the comment, AF.

Comment on Fabuloso looks good enough to drink by A Fan

A Fan — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:32:57 +0000

Good job, Jeff, bringing this to peoples’ attention. The possibilities for tragedy are mind-numbing.

Comment on Fabuloso looks good enough to drink by jlsimons

jlsimons — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:01:35 +0000

Just make sure that those lawyer friends of yours include the U.S Consumer Product Safety Commission as co-defendants. Isn’t it their job to catch this stuff? A friend of mine who lives in Mexico, Lisa, commented about this post on Facebook that she thought it was the cheapest packaging they could come up with, and I wouldn’t be surprised if cost really was running the show here. I’ve seen some pictures of other, I think earlier packaging, that looked exactly like the smaller sports or water bottles. Taller and thinner. Thanks for the comment, Josef.

Comment on Fabuloso looks good enough to drink by directmaestro

directmaestro — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:44:13 +0000

OMG! I guess we can expect a slew of class action lawsuits for wrongful death against Colgate Palmolive. I know a few lawyers who would jump on these cases. (I might share this post with them for that matter…)

Colgate Palmolive should get rid of the team who worked on this product. You would think in this day and age people would have stopped putting profits above safety.

Comment on The Lego Epiphany by jlsimons

jlsimons — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:20:42 +0000

Wooden blocks. What a visceral memory I just got reading those words. The thrill of victory when you used every single block in a tower reaching skywards. The agony of defeat when they fell. Hold on to those blocks, Jen. Someday, wood may be worth its weight in gold.

Comment on The Lego Epiphany by Jennifer Soodek

Jennifer Soodek — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:16:44 +0000

Great piece Jeff.
I agree completely.
We have bins and bins of Lego at Almost Home and the kids create their own worlds. The only thing I believe the “sets” are good for is the skill it takes to follow the directions. They are complicated, but once completed, it is on the to the next one. Lego has to have a reason for it’s customers to buy more lego, so there is goes!

The only toys I have saved for “grandchildren” someday, it two big bins of lego’s and a crate of wooden blocks. Some paper and crayons, and it’s all a child needs!

Comment on The Lego Epiphany by jlsimons

jlsimons — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 02:11:38 +0000

So that’s where they went. You kept them for her. I guess I can call off the private investigator now. And he said he was getting so close to finding them.

Comment on The Lego Epiphany by jlsimons

jlsimons — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 02:08:09 +0000

I remember climbing trees, Jill. How many parents today would let their kids (and I include myself a bit here) do the dangerous things they did themselves as kids. In terms of Lego and free play, my daughter signed up for a Lego activity as part of her after school programs last year. Not only were they all ninja oriented lego (not that every 8 year old girl on the planed shouldn’t be into robed, death dealing stealthy Lego fighters), but it’s kind of hard to turn Ninjago into a pony. Also, surprise surprise, it turns out there’s a Ninjago cartoon. Free play? Hardly. That said, I have no problem if my daughter wants to dress up as a ninja, or play ninja make believe. But it should be her choice, not the unannounced focus of a play-for-pay after school activity.

Comment on The Lego Epiphany by A Fan

A Fan — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 17:10:20 +0000

I don’t think I’m violating privacy by observing that your 7-yr old daughter has been feeding her own imagination with your same set since she was a toddler. Another creative mind in the making.

Great post.

Comment on The Lego Epiphany by jilledelmanlcsw

jilledelmanlcsw — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:52:34 +0000

“Make-Believe” and “Dress-Up” were the cornerstones of indoor play decades ago for a girl child growing up in the 1950′s. Outdoor play was based on tree-climbing, jump-rope and potsy/hopscotch. Of course coloring, reading, dolls and T.V. also anchored a female’s free-time on a winter days. Our children utilized all these options and more including tons of Legos. Even today our 25 year old son adorns his iPhone with legos and his storage bins are filled with them. Creativity is at the heart of child development. Creative play is how you get to know yourself as a child. Jeff, if Lego, whom we all loved as parents for the very reason that it stimulated in our children creative focused time consuming attention, has moved off of “free-play” of the mind, all I can say is, “Oh No!”