Health Canada has issued a safety warning regarding IKEA VYSSA crib mattresses from supplier 21905 with a date stamp of 1418 (YYWW) or earlier (details found on mattress label).
While no injuries were sustained, Health Canada has received one report—and IKEA has received five—of a gap between VYSSA VACKERT crib mattresses, posing a potential entrapment risk for infants.
Crib mattresses should fit snugly, with only a narrow gap between the mattress and the crib’s edges. Customers are advised to check VYSSA mattresses and to contact IKEA for an exchange or full refund if there is a gap greater than 3 cm between the mattress and the side/end of the bed.
In order to obtain an accurate measurement, unpack and allow a new mattress to air for 72 hours. Remove all bedding, including fitted sheets, then push the mattress into the corners of the crib.
For more information, customers should contact IKEA Canada toll-free at 1-800-661-9807 or visit IKEA's website.
Since 2010, 60,472 VYSSA crib mattress were sold at IKEA stores across Canada and online.
More recalls on children's products.
Just when I thought my bulldog pup was all kinds of crazy, this three-year-old Great Dane just raised—or lowered?—the bar. The poor pooch was rushed to an animal hospital in Oregon in February, retching from something he ate.
X-rays revealed a very full stomach of unidentified matter. When Dr. Ashley Magee opened him up, she found socks. A lot of them—43 ½ to be precise, since he just couldn't manage the 44th. Shudder to think of the vet bill for that. It probably necessitated a remortgage...
But wait, there's more. When the hospital entered Mr Dane into the running for Veterinary Practice News' "They Ate WHAT?" contest, a copious amount of socks didn't cut it, not even close. Another dog claimed runner-up for downing a "metal shish kabob skewer."
Even that feat of derring-do wasn't enough to nab first place. The $1,500 prizewinner and stealer of the glory was an exotic frog from Texas, who gobbled up more than 30 tiny ornamental rocks in its cage.
The Dane was robbed, I say. Robbed! Fortunately, he was discharged the day following the surgery. And in the sage words of one Gawker commenter, let's hope his owners have learned "to use a f*cking hamper now."
Let's see, my bully's tricks now pale in comparison—garden hose x1, sofa cushion x1, slab of patio deck x1, Crocs and sandals, various. Because kibble gets boring somewhere after the 100th consecutive day... Guess it's time for you to up your game, Rosey girl.
Another school year, another dress code infraction waiting to happen. When 15-year-old Miranda Larkin was just three days into classes at her new school, she was disciplined for wearing a black skirt that was deemed too short.
But instead of giving her the option to have her mom drop off an alternative outfit, or even serve her with a stern warning, staff at Oakleaf High School in Seattle went one further. They forced the teen to don bright red sweatpants and a neon yellow T-shirt with the words "DRESS CODE VIOLATION" emblazoned across both.
If the end goal was to humiliate Larkin in front of her new classmates, it certainly succeeded.
"She put on the outfit in the bathroom and looked at herself in the mirror and just broke down. She started sobbing and broke out in hives," said mom Dianna Larkin, who has since lodged a complaint with FERPA, the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, for violating her daughter's rights by making her private punishment public.
The Clay County School District disagrees and claims its policy is perfectly acceptable.
"(The outfit) is not displaying a discipline record to the public," said the District's attorney in a statement. "If we took off the words the other students would still know that the prison orange T-shirts were for dress code violations. I think that the practice is OK."
I too was called to the Principal's office on several occasions in high school over the most ludicrous dress code infractions—a slight tear in the knee of my jeans, the Pink Floyd T-shirt with what may or may not have been a caricature of a breast on it... I remember wondering why he was wasting his time with me, an honours student, when surely there were bigger fish to fry. As a grownup and parent in my own right, I get the need for dress codes to exist, yet question the militant manner in which they are enforced.
By all means, have a policy in place, contact parents, issue warnings, suspensions, whatever. But instead of counting inches with your fingers, spend your precious time doling out punishment where punishment is due, like, gee, I don't know, bullying maybe.
When school administrators turn into bullies, I say bring on the uniforms.
Is the "shame suit" an acceptable way to enforce a dress code, or are school administrators the ones who should be ashamed of themselves?
This mom took a can't beat 'em, join 'em approach to her daughter's dress code.
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