Family Tips

There are many items, which are not really toys that children may be tempted to play with. Protect your child and do not allow playing with such “toys� as: fireworks, scissors, trampolines (which endanger your child of serious injuries if he or she falls or collides with another kid)
Electric toys, which are not in proper working order, can shock or burn your child, and flying toys can cause serious eye injuries if the parent is not paying attention.

When you consider evaluating a toy for safety, its noise level is unlikely the first thing that comes to mind of parents. Nevertheless, loud toys can cause hearing damage in children. The noise of some rattles, squeak or musical toys, and electronic toys can be as loud, from the point of view of decibels, as a car horn, a lawnmower, or even a rock concert – and it may be even louder if you consider that children often like to hold toys directly to their ears.

Some toys, such as noise-making toy guns and caps, are required by the Consumer Product Safety Commission to include labels and instructions that warn not to be set within 12 inches of someone’s ear or used indoors. In November 2003 American Society of Testing Materials set some additional standards on noise safety, which require hand-held toys not to emit sounds greater than 90 decibels and that toys that are intended to be hold close to the ear, for example, toy cell phones not exceed 70 decibels. The usual phone rings at about 80 decibels, so you can use that it for comparison when deciding whether a toy is too loud for your kid.