Now there's GHB in our toys...in addition to the other shit, here, here.
As per my 'research' here are a few companies that seem to have a diversity of toys (both age appropriateness, ethnic representation, and price ranges) without added poison...
Ecobusiness also had a link for toys
Organic Toybox (they sell lots of Melissa and Doug toys, that are made in China)*
(*be sure to check the individual toy on the website; some still have supposedly "safe" toys made in China - such as Melissa and Doug; and apparently playmobil sold it's soul by manufactoring some of it's "mini" line in China).
Individual toys:
• Battleship
• Battleship
• Bicycle Playing Cards
• Boggle Jr.
• Candyland
• Chutes and Ladders
• Clue
• Connect Four
• Crayola Crayons *
• Life
• Louisville Slugger
• Monopoly
• Mouse Trap
• Operation
• Parcheesi
• Play-Doh *
• Pop-O-Matic Trouble
• Radio Flyer Discovery Wagon
• Scrabble
• Sorry
• Stratego
• Tri-ominos
• Trivial Pursuit
• Yahtzee
• Melissa and Doug U.S.A.*
-many puzzles
* Some play-doh and crayolas aren't made in America. And Melissa and Doug = made in China too, sometimes. Be sure to check the box on these.
Other huge reference is Toys Made in America and http://www.howtobuyamerican.com/
Cool site that my offer help - Multicultural Toybox
Not Made in China is a great site.
Tips for buying toys that don't kill your kids: The Green Guide.
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Another site: www.toysmadeinamerica.com (over 100 clickable links for US-made toys and stuff for kids!)
One more -- www.flattenme.com -- personalized storybooks with the name and face of your child in the book. Great stuff and printed in the US.
Oh, thanks so much. I have been looking on the shelves at the toy stores, and fricking everything is made in China.
I will certainly be purchasing things from this list for my children.
Thanks again.
thank you. thank you. thank you. this is the most comprehensive guide i've found so far.
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