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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
@cpsc.gov

GenX friends, we know your parents just handed you sparklers. They didn't have the Consumer Product Safety Commission on their phone like you do now. Maybe if they'd known sparklers burn as hot as a blowtorch they would have reconsidered (maybe). Once we know better, we must do better.

U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
@cpsc.gov

And, just a thought, we never hear stories about the "let kids be kids!" people walking around emergency rooms offering to pay for treatments. It's easy to have a carefree take on safety when you're not sitting in the ER.

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Karen C
@silver.phoenyx.net

My mother was impressed the first time we buckled a car seat into her car, and remarked "we just buckled the bassinet in and let you rattle around the back seat, I didn't know how you survived" and I said, "by not having a car accident. A lot of my cohort didn't survive!" and she said, "hmm, true."

David Craig (author)
@dcraig.bsky.social

Your parents had seatbelts?? My grandparents didn’t have seatbelts in the rear of the car until I was about 10. We just sat there. They also smoked like chimneys in thr car and house, despite me being asthmatic.

Karen C
@silver.phoenyx.net

The bassinet, not the car, came with... well, straps rather than belts, I guess. We had lap belts in the first car I remember, when I was five (before that we had a camper-van, so we just sat at the table or in a playpen).