Ack. A serious dilemma for this here Worried Dad and several of his co-conspirators in the world of guerrilla parenting.
Here's the short of it:
* America want cheap junk from China.
* China complies, but slaps extra lead on every kind of book, toy, lunchbox, and article of clothing to help keep costs down.
* Americans freak out (including your humble blogger here).
* American Congress passes sweeping anti-lead law. Now every store, vendor, producer, etc. of children's anything must prove that their products are lead free.
* Worried Dad then walks into favorite Goodwill store and discovers that all children's clothing and toys are gone, baby, gone.
* Worried Dad ponders global economic apocalypse and wonders if kids today really need all those extra IQ points after all...
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I like your thinking. Don't need America's youth with too much IQ. They'll want to do something, like change the world. Can't have that...
Also, you have to assume that we parents ingested our own share of the stuff in our time. Don't want the little ones being smarter than us!
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