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[quote=Anonymous]I absolutely love my old Playskool People toys, and it's one of my greatest joys of motherhood to see my son playing with my old Fisher Price Playskool People (Little People) camper.

He's 2.5 and of all the toys he has, this toy set is the one were he does the vast majority of his imaginative play, where the talks as the people and has them have conversations with each other and go on sustained "stories" together.

So, I was actually planning to get the Playskool People garage off eBay for Christmas, and then I read about the lead in the yellow plastic on it here (in response to this post, I did some Googling):

http://www.rtkenvironmental.com/lead/lead-in-toys-every-parent-needs-to-know/

So my question would be...the danger with lead paint is actually in ingesting the dust in the paint particles; that's how it gets into your bloodstream.  How would lead in the yellow plastic get into a child's bloodstream?  (Presuming that the child is not eating the plastic.)

I'm not someone who simplistically says, "Hey, I survived the 70's with no seat belts, so my kid doesn't need them."  But I'm really skeptical about the real risk involved in letting a child play with these toys.  Right now, absent more information, I think the benefits are well worth a tiny risk.  (Just as I let my 2.5 year old climb a rope ladder up to his tree house, supervised.)[/quote]

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