Get the Lead Out!

This week I traveled to Philadelphia to tape a news segment for NBC 10 on how to go through your children's toys and organize them in light of the recent lead paint toy recalls. It's the perfect time to organize your toys because it's just before the holiday season, and you can make room for the incoming gifts... and you absolutely need to get the recalled items out of your house.

People are shocked when they find out how many of these very recent and popular toys that are recalled. My own cutie pie twin nephews were playing often with the Baby Einstein cloth cubes, and the child who was in the television story with me had two of the Thomas the Tank Engine trains and several of the Sesame Street toys. Please visit the Consumer Product Safety Commission website at www.cpsc.gov to review the list and GET THE LEAD OUT of your toybox! You can sign up there for e-mail alerts to find out when new things are added to the list. The National Safety Council says there is no such thing as any safe level of lead exposure.

Here is the press release that we put out with some tips on how to approach this and how to organize the toys while you are at it. Please forward this information to someone you care about who may have small children! I am really upset about this problem as I think there are thousands of busy parents out there who think "this can't happen to me."