developmental delays

2007 is the Chinese year of the boar, considered to be a very lucky year, but perhaps 2007 will be better remembered as the year of the recall. Week after week parents are warned on the news and on the Internet about lead paint being found in their children’s toys. Lists of affected toys grow longer and longer with every passing day. Fisher Price, Disney, Kids II, all trusted names by parents, recalling millions of toys due to violations in lead paint standards. Parents are scurrying around comparing their child’s toy’s lot numbers to lot numbers on long lists or simply throwing away hundreds of dollars of toys just to be safe. For those that do not know, lead paint is attributed with causing developmental delays, brain damage, multiple health problems, and behavioral problems.