Childcare – child left behind

News item here.
A mother arrived at a Darwin childcare centre, apparently 10 minutes before the centre normally would close, to find that it was locked up and there was no sign of her little eight-month-old son. She thought other relatives had picked him up but couldn’t get in touch with them. At 7 pm she [...]

If your ovaries fall off …

You may have a plush uterus.
Seriously, there is a recall notice for the Plush Uterus, because:
the 2008 Plush Uterus has failed a pull test. The ovaries may detach when pulled, becoming a potential small part choking hazard for young children. No one has been harmed.
This is from the company I Heart Guts, with plush toys, [...]

Road Safety in the Holiday Season

Article from The Sydney Morning Herald here.
A woman crashed her car while driving last night in Sydney. Nothing unusual there. The thing that caught my eye was that she was allegedly six times over the legal drink-driving limit and she had her three year old daughter in the car. She had been to a university [...]

What would I save?

Patricia Fuentes Burns’s post about what she would save in case of a house fire caught my attention. After getting children and animals out of the house, what would I grab? Patricia mentions her laptop (all the jewels of happy events captured on the hard disk) and her daughter’s much-loved Bunny who still [...]