Archive for the ‘Strollers’ Category
Maclaren’s has issued a recall on every umbrella stroller it has sold over the past decade. The strollers passed federal safety inspections, but the stroller are being recalled because of Maclaren’s commitment to safety. This involves well over a million strollers.
The Consumer Products Safety Commission will look into further standards or recalls as needed for stroller hinges. Other stroller manufacturers have based their hinge design on the Maclaren design and have had safety reports, but have not had amputations that are attributed to the Maclaren design.
Regardless of the recall of strollers, or the safety of the hinges, it warns us to keep the children away when the equipment is being set up. We must keep our children under watch at all times. Surely in the past twenty years many children have not been hurt by these strollers.
If you had told me even 18 months ago that my wife would be giving birth to twins, I would have reacted with very mixed emotions. First would come shock and happiness at the prospect of welcoming two new members of the family into the world. But then the financial implications of the situation would begin to sink in. Now that the twins are a year old, we’re still struggling to make ends meet.
We’ve settled on several smart economic compromises, buying baby food in bulk and mostly dressing the children in hand-me-downs from their older cousins. I figure that by saving money now, we’ll be able to lavish them with nicer things once they’re old enough to appreciate it. For now, I’m content to push them around the neighborhood in twin strollers, enjoying their company even as I panic about ways to put them through college.