News yesterday of yet another child product recall, this time for the Bumbo chair. We’ve used the Bumbo chair for years and it is a great product. It allows babies to sit up before they can do it themselves. Thing 3 loves to sit in his Bumbo and watch his brothers play. It’s like he’s one of the big boys.
The reason for the recall is not due to some product defect. Rather, it is due to misuse, and frankly, lack of common sense on the part of some parents. While the Bumbo is good for keeping babies “stuck” in the chair, it isn’t fool proof, and babies can sometimes get loose. It clearly says this when you buy the product. Not to make light of serious injuries which have occurred, but it seems obvious not to put a Bumbo on a table or counter, or anywhere the baby could get hurt if he falls out. If you put the Bumbo on a carpeted floor, the baby won’t get hurt when he falls out.
So the company will now put large warning labels on the Bumbo, saying not to place on surfaces where the baby would get hurt if he falls out. They even published a gallery of videos showing safe use of the Bumbo. Isn’t this a little extreme? I mean, do parents really need to be told not to do stupid things? Should soccer balls come with a warning not to play with them near traffic? Should bikes come with a warning that you can fall off them? There aren’t any toys which, if misused, can’t cause some harm. Do parents really need to be warned about every one?
7 responses so far ↓
1 JC // Oct 26, 2007 at 2:24 pm
Are you telling me I shouldn’t use the bumbo seat in the middle of the street, on the edge of a cliff, in the fireplace? :-)
2 KB // Oct 27, 2007 at 10:31 pm
JC, that was well said!!!! Some PARENTS are just dum, and there is 1 parent that I know of that is taking legal action for her kid falling out of a BUMBO that she put on a counter. I hope that that parent dose not win her case!!
3 Anonymous // Oct 29, 2007 at 2:45 pm
I am so glad to see your comments…that was so well said.
I have given the Bumbo chair to so many 1st time moms as shower gifts that when I heard about a recall I felt so bad to have given them something that was deffective. I couldn’t understand how…but it not the product but the USER.
4 SuburbanDaddy » Bumbo’s New Warning Label // Oct 31, 2007 at 7:41 am
[...] As you probably know by now, the Bumbo seat was recalled recently. Here is the product change the company is making. I’ll let you judge the ridiculous factor. [...]
5 toddlerdaddy // Nov 4, 2007 at 6:27 am
I have one of these things, and so far I am yet to drop either of my kids onto their heads due its misuse.
Given that I am not the sharpest tool in the shed myself I can only assume those that have managed to injure their kids through poor use of a bumbo are so irrevocably stupid as to it actually being dwarinian theorem in it’s purest form that means these kids are being brained.
Why must morons make life more difficult for those of us with merely below average intelligence?
6 Qtpies7~ // Nov 13, 2007 at 1:44 pm
Like Brad Stine, the conservative comedian, says “PUT A HELMET ON!!!!” Stupid people!
7 ladybughugs // Jun 27, 2008 at 10:51 am
I guess some parents really ARE that stupid. I’ve seen parents do things that make my hair stand on end and but for the grace of God… It makes me krazee.
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