Keeping children safe from dangerous toys

If your act-now-think-later, impulse-driven child has been voted Most Likely to Destroy or Swallow a Toy, here are a couple of notes of caution for you as we move toward the big Gift Opening Weekend: About.com Children's Book guide Elizabeth Kennedy has an alert about the recall of three books that, if your child is so inclined to pry off the back to get at the pretty beads floating in it (and you know she is), can present a choking hazard. And Blogging Baby tells the sad story of a child who died after swallowing two pieces from his big brother's Magnetix set. Swallowing two magnets of any type is a major hazard for kids, since they can attract each other even in your insides and join up to block or tear an intestine. For more product news to worry about, check the recalls and warnings at the Consumer Product Safety Commission site.