For real.
They plastered it all over the Home and Garden section.
You can read the whole story here, but it's basically a long variation on this:
Do not be fooled. The coffee table means your children harm. And when it attacks, results can be ugly.
Last year, 143,070 children age 5 and younger visited emergency rooms after table accidents, according to estimates from the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission. Coffee tables, in particular, turn up in more than a quarter of the accident reports, in the commission’s sample count.
The safety commission recommends that parents install bumpers on the corners and edges of their tables. Do they work? Who knows? Perhaps style-savvy children can be repelled by things that are ugly and made of foam.
Coming next week: It's all fun and games until somebody pokes their eye out!
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2 comments:
Fortunately, we never owned a coffee table, but our end tables had similar sharp corners. It's a miracle my kids survived.
Happy New Year! You won't believe what one of my kids got (disease wise) over the holidays. I will post about it next week.
my parents had a wooden coffee table, sometimes my baby brother would bump his head on it but nothing serious. im surprised this article doesnt mention adults getting hurt on coffee tables, bc i have suffered many a banged shins on them :/
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