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flame resistant PJs for 18-month toddler?
I just started taking the tags off of Micah's new PJs (shorts and
shirt), and noticed the bright yellow tag: "...This garment is not flame resistant. Loose-fitting garment is more likely to catch fire." I've done a quick google search on flame resistant PJs and have come up with 1) don't get them; they're covered with potentially toxic chemicals; 2) get them; it's a CPSC safety recommendation; and 3) biggest concern is kids playing with/near fire/cigarettes and their clothes igniting [IOW, I don't anticipate this being a problem for Micah for the short period of time he actually FITS into these PJs]. I don't want to get him tight-fitting PJs since it's getting hot. So what do you all do about flame resistant PJs? Necessary or scare tactic/unnecessary if you use common sense? I never even heard about this until I noticed the tag today. Em mama to Micah, 11/14/04 |
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flame resistant PJs for 18-month toddler?
wrote in message oups.com... I just started taking the tags off of Micah's new PJs (shorts and shirt), and noticed the bright yellow tag: "...This garment is not flame resistant. Loose-fitting garment is more likely to catch fire." I've done a quick google search on flame resistant PJs and have come up with 1) don't get them; they're covered with potentially toxic chemicals; 2) get them; it's a CPSC safety recommendation; and 3) biggest concern is kids playing with/near fire/cigarettes and their clothes igniting [IOW, I don't anticipate this being a problem for Micah for the short period of time he actually FITS into these PJs]. I don't want to get him tight-fitting PJs since it's getting hot. So what do you all do about flame resistant PJs? Necessary or scare tactic/unnecessary if you use common sense? I never even heard about this until I noticed the tag today. The recommendation I always heard was to make sure their jammies aren't loose. I'm not quite sure why it's considered such a danger with jammies and not with regular clothes though. I never did get that, and will be interested to see the explanation when someone posts it. Bizby |
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news wrote in message oups.com.. . I just started taking the tags off of Micah's new PJs (shorts and shirt), and noticed the bright yellow tag: "...This garment is not flame resistant. Loose-fitting garment is more likely to catch fire." I've done a quick google search on flame resistant PJs and have come up with 1) don't get them; they're covered with potentially toxic chemicals; 2) get them; it's a CPSC safety recommendation; and 3) biggest concern is kids playing with/near fire/cigarettes and their clothes igniting [IOW, I don't anticipate this being a problem for Micah for the short period of time he actually FITS into these PJs]. I don't want to get him tight-fitting PJs since it's getting hot. So what do you all do about flame resistant PJs? Necessary or scare tactic/unnecessary if you use common sense? I never even heard about this until I noticed the tag today. The recommendation I always heard was to make sure their jammies aren't loose. I'm not quite sure why it's considered such a danger with jammies and not with regular clothes though. I never did get that, and will be interested to see the explanation when someone posts it. no kidding. we have a gas stove & Boo likes to cook... you'd think they'd make more of a fuss over clothes the kids are more likely to be near flames while wearing. lee -- "Fascism would be better described as corporatism, since it is marriage between the state and business" - Benito Mussolini |
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flame resistant PJs for 18-month toddler?
I never got it either. It started when my first was around that age. I
was pretty mad. I don't like to sleep in snug-fitting pj's and neither do my kids. Anyway, I just kept on a hunt until I found loose-fitting pj's or pj bottom-type pants and bought regular ol' Hanes T'shirts. They can take off the pants on a warm night and pop them on in the morning when it is cool. I know they have made a change since I had to deal with it last, but luckily I still have all of the pj's from the first. When I finally couldn't find any loose-fitting non-treated pjs any longer, I just washed them about five times before putting them onto the kids. I wholeheartedly believe that chemicals should not be placed on all of their pj's and that it should be my choice as to whether or not I want to subject my kids to absorbing them. lol. The theory is that loose-fitting clothes catch fire more easily than snug-fitting ones. It used to be that the kids could wear the loose-fitting ones a lot longer than the snug-fitting ones too. Maybe I would feel differently if I ever experienced a fire, but I can't help but think that if a fire is that close to a sleeping baby, chances are it has inhaled a whole lot of smoke before then. kwim? As for playing with matches, we don't keep those in the house and all of the lighters are childproof now too. The new undershirts are tagless now too. I never understood why they stopped short of trying to save children from fire wearing day clothes either. |
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This issue has come up before, and one time I had some free time to
look it up. I don't have any references handy right now, but the way I found it, it looked like the main concern was for toddlers/pre-schoolers who got up when their parents thought they were in bed, and then played with fire. So, not only were they playing with fire, they were unsupervised. This was in a discussion of whether or not infant sleepwear really needed to be flame resistant, and one of the conclusions was that unless you thought your baby was at an unusually high risk of spontaneous combustion, it probably wouldn't be an issue. ;-) A lot of this is based on the fact that once people get into their heads that children's sleepwear should be flame resistant, they get scared if it isn't. So, they started making infant sleepwear flame resistant, or putting labels in stuff warning you not to use it as sleepwear. eyeroll I try to get cotton pj's for my kids, but they do have some of the icky polyester stuff, too. Of course, with the cotton pj's, sometimes they go way overboard on how closefitting they are, and they *never* fit! Irene |
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So what do you all do about flame resistant PJs? Necessary or scare tactic/unnecessary if you use common sense? I never even heard about this until I noticed the tag today. I never paid attention to the flame retardant stuff and just bought what was comfortable. As having lost my 3-year-old niece in a house fire, it didn't matter what she wore, she was consumed by smoke inhalation and heat. Precaution is the best measure and making sure there are escape routes and smoke alarms, etc.... -- Sue (mom to three girls) |
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