Would you let your children play with these "toys"?

[angus]

They're cute.  Then again, I like offbeat plush toys.

I have two virus plush toys in my office:  the rhinovirus (common cold) that I bought from the gift shop at the national institutes of health and a mad cow disease toy given to me by a vendor at a meeting.  They're both shaped roughly like the 3D shapes of the viruses they represent.  





A colleague of mine has this one:




Not sure whether I'd give Pee to my child.  I generally avoid yellow toys from China.  If it's yellow and from China, then it probably has both hexavalent chromium as well as lead in the pigment.  Both are pretty nasty.  I wouldn't give any small child a yellow toy from China, not because it represents a normal bodily function, but because small children put things in their mouths, and lead (II) chromate isn't the sort of thing I want to see children put into their mouths.  Poo is probably okay for children.

[angus]

I may, but if I had children, I'd rather have them play with this.

I remember this book well.  It came out when my son was about six months old.  There are a million things wrong with that book and all he can focus on is the fact that the poor audio recording makes "who wants to try?" sound like "who wants to die?"  What a moron.  How about the rolling toilet paper??!  Zing!  Anyone who has ever had to put up with a little boy, day after day, year after year, must experience a shudder upon hearing that sound.  If I had a nickel every time I had to roll the roll back up after my son spent the past five minutes joyfully unrolling it (Zing!) I'd have about a million nickles.  And that's just for starters.  What a douchebag.  The blitzkrieg of pop-up notices on his screen is enough to turn anyone into an epileptic.  Seriously, put him out of his misery.