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@rcaf Some of them are filled with kinetic sand or just slime but the toy itself is really crap and breaks easily.

@d2west They are treated with a bittering agent. Apparently wildlife is smarter than most people’s kids and don’t follow through with eating something that tastes disgusting

@faithservant I looked this up before commenting because I have no emotional attachment to these things. If they’re really a death trap, I’ll ban them for life. I found a lot of reporting on the same handful of stories. I’m not into whataboutism but I suppose a lot of the people raising the...

@emjay1985 Good to know.

@shakinaglory These should probably be played with outside if there’s a baby in the home. In our home we have always been very strict about every single one staying contained and if one should drop, all play stops until it is found. When my own child was a baby I had no issues supervising to...

@marcosmasliaev That makes sense. Definitely not something I would allow to be played with in a space shared by babies or pets

@shakinaglory I don’t use TikTok but I googled this before commenting because we’ve been safely using water beads for years and there was one infant that was the majority of headlines. I’m guessing it was the same one. Unfortunate that they weren’t kept away from an infant.

@4gvand4gt When they are swallowed in their dry state they can pose a risk but they are indeed “pretty harmless” as I said. I think too many people aren’t supervising their children or paying enough attention to whether or not their kids are at the appropriate age or maturity. The water beads...

@d2west Yeah, the quality of the toy sucks. Water beads are pretty harmless though.