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SAFE SLEEPING Though toddlers spend 7 million nights in hotels each year, studies have shown that 80% of cribs provided by hotels were unsafe. Some used adult sheets and pillows, which can suffocate children. Others were just poorly maintained: the wear and tear of constant use can make even the sturdiest crib dangerous. If you're traveling with babies this summer, be wary. The National Safe Kids Campaign safekids.org provides a hotel-safety checklist...
...Fields say parents should take the money they might spend on items like baby swings (there have been six deaths and nine serious injuries from the popular Graco model) or walkers (more babies are injured in walkers than in any other nursery product), and invest in a crib with a snug-fitting mattress that meets safety guidelines (check cpsc.gov) Otherwise fine cribs are displayed in stores (and in the current Pottery Barn for Kids catalog) filled with quilts and pillows that can suffocate infants younger than age 1. Parents who receive such bedding sets should dress their infant...
...theater prop shop stocked with tools and open to students. Palfrey's favorite parts of the house are the intricate closets, packed with shelves and delicate woodwork, and the gorgeous and gigantic kitchen. But the house's best-kept secret is in the third-floor bedroom--Teddy Roosevelt's crib...
Case has been selling almost since he left the crib. He was the middle of three boys who tagged behind an older sister and shared a passion for starting businesses, even going so far as to call their bedrooms "offices." (You can imagine the formative entrepreneurial scolding at the Case house: "Steve, go to your office!") Case's father was a Hawaii power-lawyer; his mom taught at the school her kids attended. Case's older brother Dan was always regarded as the family comet: Princeton, Rhodes scholarship, prestigious investment bank...
...mini-deprivation like this are, I suspect, helping fuel a run on luxury products for kids by parents who feel that their darlings should never go without. The robust economy and stock market have created a lot of new prosperity, and parents are increasingly swaddling their children in cashmere crib bedding, bespoke baby ball gowns and tuxedos for toddlers. At the same time, they are worried that their kids take wealth for granted, and struggle to prepare their teens for a less lavish life once they get out on their own. Inevitably, some Wall Street investment advisers are now recommending...