The other day, I stumbled upon a Mom’s blog (Finding Balance in San Francisco) and found a great resource. It’s Pop-A-Lock Emergency Door Unlocking – a service to unlock car doors. The service is offered for FREE when there is a child inside the car. It’s information you might want to tuck away in your wallet — just don’t leave the information in your car.

Check its location page to see if there is one near you.

I wasn’t going to keep writing about all the recalls, thinking that Moms get that information in our everyday news sources, but then I decided to offer some links in case there is a Mom reading this who hasn’t heard this news yet. In the past week, there have been two crib recalls — one for a regular crib, one for a play yard (aka pack ‘n’ play). And, there is a recall on children’s jewelry that contains lead.

Here’s a list of the recalls from the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Don’t forget, as I posted earlier, you can sign up to get email notices of all recalls, here.

Mattel announced yet another toy recall. This one includes:

• GeoTrax™ Engine (2 products)
• Barbie® Accessory Sets (7 products)
• It’s a Big Big World™ (1 product)

Read the Associated Press story here.

Visit Mattel’s Voluntary Safety Recall Web site.

It seems every few days now there is a product recall. Last night while watching the evening news I learned about a new recall for spiral-bound SpongeBob SquarePants address books and journals. Apparently, the binding material contains a high amount of lead. Read the recall information here, from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.

While you are at the CPSC Web site, sign up for its recall newsletter to receive recall information via email so you’ll be among the first to know.

I’m thankful that we live in a world where companies can use the media as a forum to get the word out about products that are not safe for our children, however, I’m tired of all of these toy and product recalls. It seems that every week I have yet another list to review and toys to hunt down to make sure I do/or don’t have the exact toys that are on the recall list.

Today, it’s a car seat, last week Mattel toys, the week before Fisher-Price toys. How many of these will be have to go through?

Here are a couple of links of the recall lists that I recently found. It’s better to be safe than sorry, so take a few minutes today to ensure your kid’s toys are not on one of these lists.

Mattel (includes video from Chairman)
Fisher-Price toys (list includes toy name, ID and a thumbnail photo; information from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
Britax Car Seat (from BabyCenter.com)