Dad, Stop Worrying So Much about Keeping Your Kids Safe

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Let's take a look at some of the newer safety products being marketing to parents, starting with baby knee pads.

Yes, knee pads. Exactly what you'd want your 9-month- old to wear if he was drafted to play pro hockey. Except that these pads -- "the cushiest, comfiest knee pads ever," according to the One Step Ahead catalog - are for crawling. "These medical-grade neoprene knee guards give little crawlers unparalleled protection, while slip-proof ‘traction beads' guard against skidding."

Skidding? Like your baby is going to go around the corner so fast, sparks will shoot out her Huggies? What kind of fools do they take us for, that we'd be worried about this time-honored stage of babyhood? Knees were made for crawling. And yet, look what one mom wrote on the One Step Ahead website, under the baby knee pads "Product review."

"Sometimes my daughter has problems going from carpeting to the wood and marble floors. It helps her with traction to keep form spinning out. Unfortunately, she did not like the feel on her legs and refused to wear them."

Score one for the baby! But that mama - she really worries about her daughter "spinning out." And other parents writing to the site are just as sold.

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