Recently there have been a number of messages in the newsgroup
regarding children's furniture and suggesting that items like
toyboxes are more useful, along with a warning about safe design
to prevent falling lids from banging fingers, etc.
There is a MUCH MORE CRITICAL SAFETY ITEM ON TOYBOXES: VENTILATION!!
I used to be a volunteer EMT. One of my early life squad runs was
on a young child (put to bed for a nap) who got out of bed and
crawled into the toy box and fell asleep there. He never awoke.
Despite our CPR efforts and the hospital's efforts, he could not
be revived.
Although its been 15 years and a thousand other emergency runs have
come and gone, I still shudder every time I see an unventilated
toy box in a store.
Ken
at our son's 1 year checkup, the Dr. told us that our job had changed- it
had gone from simply taking care of a baby to suicide prevention! He
wasn't kidding!!