How to keep kids from eating laundry detergent?

[jtbell]

The problem is, those handy little detergent pods look too much like Halloween candy, so kids try to eat them.

Laundry detergent pods are 'real risk' to children (CNN)

They should make those pods look like Brussels sprouts, instead.

 

[Danger]

They should make those pods look like Brussels sprouts, instead.

Good idea! Weed out those damned vegetarians! :w

 

[dlgoff]

They should make those pods look like Brussels sprouts, instead.

Yeah. Anything but a http://www.bigstory.ap.org/article/7bc01be3269c4779a563fc22d50d5108/hundreds-kids-harmed-detergent-pods-study .

Jessica Morin of Houston says her 9-month-old daughter, Marlow, was sickened earlier this year when Jessica's grandmother mistook a detergent pod for a teething toy and put it in the baby's mouth.

 

[leroyjenkens]

I think the problem should fix itself once the child tastes it.
If the child tastes it and keeps eating, then I say let natural selection do its work.

 

[Evo]

I use those and they come in a plastic container clearly marked as soap and is not easy to open, how an adult would accidentally just find one lying near where a baby is kept and shove it in their mouth without rinsing it first (which is when you'd figure out it's soap) is beyond me.

 

[Nikitin]

You're supposed to keep those out of reach of small children anyway just like with all the other chemicals. How hard can it be?

 

[Vanadium 50]

without rinsing it first (which is when you'd figure out it's soap

That's the part I don't get either. Babes find things lying around and put them in their mouths. That's just what they do. But you'd think an adult would have more sense than to find something lying around and put it in a baby's mouth.

 

[Borek]

you'd think an adult would have more sense

And that from an ex-Mentor, sigh.

 

[Astronuc]

You're supposed to keep those out of reach of small children anyway just like with all the other chemicals. How hard can it be?

Exactly. Parents are supposed to keep hazardous things out of reach of children - e.g., on high shelves or locked cabinets. Of course, there are some thoughtless individuals out there.

 

[Monique]

[The baby] had been sleeping in a laundry basket with the pod when it happened.

That's how: do not place your baby in a laundry basked with a detergent pod.

 

[Evo]

That's how: do not place your baby in a laundry basked with a detergent pod.

So, it's the detergent's fault, not the parent that put a baby in a laundry basket with the detergent pod.

 

[russ_watters]

So, it's the detergent's fault, not the parent that put a baby in a laundry basket with the detergent pod.

Have some sympathy; it's a tough time to be a lawyer in the US!

 

[leroyjenkens]

But you'd think an adult would have more sense than to find something lying around and put it in a baby's mouth.

A lot of people never grow up, they just get bigger.

 

[RonL]

So, it's the detergent's fault, not the parent that put a baby in a laundry basket with the detergent pod.

This doesn't seem to match Monique's comment, am I lost

 

[Evo]

This doesn't seem to match Monique's comment, am I lost

It's called being "facetious".

Facetious - not seriously meaning what you say, usually in an attempt to be humorous

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/american-english/facetious

 

[RonL]

It's called being "facetious".

Facetious - not seriously meaning what you say, usually in an attempt to be humorous

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/american-english/facetious

In case I have been slow to answer, Evo...this has me in a dumbfounded state.

http://cdn.papermag.com/uploaded_images/Kim_cover_web_1.jpg
I never watch ET, just didn't change the channel quick enough I might be iincapacitated for awhileoo):D

 

[Evo]

You should see the other cover. Either she's a freak or they have done some big arse photoshopping. The other cover shows her with a rear end the size of the Goodyear blimp.

 

[RonL]

You should see the other cover. Either she's a freak or they have done some big arse photoshopping. The other cover shows her with a rear end the size of the Goodyear blimp.

Once again..."attention span of a gnat"

 

[RonL]

You should see the other cover. Either she's a freak or they have done some big arse photoshopping. The other cover shows her with a rear end the size of the Goodyear blimp.

That's part what caught me off guard, last pictures I saw needed a "wide load" sign attached:p

 

[SteamKing]

Kim ought to wear one of those signs you see on the back of large trucks: WIDE LOAD

 

[edward]

Kim ought to wear one of those signs you see on the back of large trucks: WIDE LOAD

And a little horn that goes; beep, beep, beep when she backs up.

Am I lost or did I only imagine that I was on a laundry detergent thread??

The problem with the detergents is that to save space on store shelves companies are making them more and more concentrated. A small child would not be about to ingest a full cup of the older versions of tide, yet that is equivalent of what these new cute little candy lookalikes contains.

All detergents, especially concentrated detergents, need to be watched closely. It is just another one of those first world problems.

 

[SteamKing]

And a little horn that goes; beep, beep, beep when she backs up.

Am I lost or did I only imagine that I was on a laundry detergent thread??

The topics in these Gen Discussion forums tend to meander a bit. Someone else pitched the Kardashian ball, I just batted it.

 

[Borek]

Makes me think of Saartjie Baartman.

 

[RonL]

And a little horn that goes; beep, beep, beep when she backs up.

Am I lost or did I only imagine that I was on a laundry detergent thread

Sorry see post #18...:)
Too little too late,...but the soap that it takes to clean her clothes, should save a few babies:)