Bumbo Recall - Baby Chair Seat is NOT a Baby Sitter
89The Bumbo baby chair is under recall! Read on to learn more of this dangerous chair before it gets beneath the bottom of a tot you care about.
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The Hard Scoop on Bumbo Seats
Umbo...
Ubmbo...
Bbumbo...
Vumbo...
Numbo...
Gumbo...
Humbo...
Bmbo..
Bmubo...
However you know it's name, it's a weird word for a weird looking product that's been called the most innovative infant chair on the market. It's won awards, certificates and they'll take your credit card if you want to buy one for your tiny lil bundle of love.
But is it safe?
Can you afford to walk away and leave your baby sitting by his or her self unattended while you watch soap operas and smoke your Virginia Slims?
Can you run gossip with Mrs. Walton next door when you ask for sugar as little Olivia screeches from her pastel purple Bumbo seat back at your house?
Apparently not.
The Bumbo seat is in fact being recalled!
According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, located in Washington DC of all places, the product is dangerous and nearly THIRTY children have been hurt already! There are approximately a million Bumbos lurking in American homes as I write, so this is not a one in a million kind of incident. It is infact, a thirty in a million incident. Those odds are quite ugly, friends.
Not only is this foam baby chair dangerous, it's also been deemed distasteful by Better Homes & Gardens magazine and the director of the television series Trading Spaces, Walter Perriman. The Bumbo comes in colors including yellow, aqua and LIME GREEN. No child deserves to be visually assaulted with lime green. Something had to be done. The recall lead to huge troubles for Bumbo International, a South African company which, surprisingly, is the manufacturer of the Bumbo baby chair.
Now this is not news, we know these things. The Bumbo is dangerous, the Bumbo can hurt children and lead to poor taste in color schemes for home decor later in life, but what in in the name of Jehosaphat *is* a Bumbo?
At first I thought perhaps it was a cute little made up cartoon character. Or maybe a roly-poly little beetle. Maybe even some clever ploy to harness the magical charm of Disney's famed Dumbo without paying royalties.
No, dearest readers, Bumbo is something far, far more sinister. It is, in fact, also known by the names of Bombo or Bumboo. Heard of it? No? Well, perhaps you haven't sailed the seven seas with Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom or spent enough time burning villages and stealing gold? Perhaps YOU are not a pirate?
That's right! I have proof that this product is named after a drink. Not just any drink, either. I mean I might be mildly offended by the idea of my son or daughter sitting in a Franzia high chair or a Michelob playpen, but the very concept of Bacardi bassinet is downright insulting!
You know what Bumbo is? Well, allow me to inform you, sweet readers. If you take some water, sugar and nutmeg, mix that together and throw in some RUM, you'll have a Bumbo! Can you believe this insanity? For years the subliminal message to partake of devil's liquor has been infiltrating infant minds. Nevermind rating movies, video games and all that, no we've got to worry about whether the carseat was designed by diabolical marketing geniuses to prod our children into never even getting ON the wagon, much less ever falling off!
It's a shame, but that's what the American public has done to their children. We've entrusted their precious Pampers-padded bottoms to a product inspired by the pirate's choice booze! It tasted better than the British Navy Grog, they said, so they drank themselves sideways in Carribean shantys planning plunders of new ports. This is the same brew George Washington used to get himself elected, you might be interested to learn. Knew there was something sneaky about that wooden-toothed wig-wearer, didn't you?
So take that silly seat right back to Target or Wal-Mart or wherever you found that foam abomination. Or do whatever it is your supposed to do for the recall, but PLEASE for America's future get rid of it! Pirates of the Carribean was bad enough! We don't need these kids in college and having their conversations go like this:
"Ahoy, Aiden! What say ye we blow off class like a strong gail and fetch a pail of BUMBO together!"
"Aye! It'd be a pleasure to drown me sorrows over my Physics 101 finals with ye, Jacob, let's shiver our timbers back to the dorms!"
No, we don't need that sort of future, friends. Stop the madness now, burn a Bumbo today!
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See the truth for yourself!!
- Serious Head Injuries Prompt Recall of Bumbo Baby Sitter Seats - New Warnings and Instructions to Be
It's REAL, friends! This is no joke! - Learn about the REAL Bumbo from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
You thought you knew the truth, but you were wrong, America! Take a closer look at the sordid past of this piratey chair! - Bumbo Seat Recall
This is hot news. Serious head injuries prompted the Recall of Bumbo Baby Sitter Seats. New warnings and instructions are to be provided to consumers. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, along with...
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Maybe you missed the part below about this article being intended as humor (the "Fine Print" section of the article). At any rate, you sound a bit defensive about how safe the chair is... do you work for the company or sell the chairs yourself?
Just curious :)
I have a chair and my child loves it no i don't work for the company but the parents of the children are in the wrong here what kind of parents would put their children on a table and walk away so maybe you should lay off the company and parents should get common sense how about that
Oh, maybe you thought this article was meant as serious journalism, also, but that's not the case. It's supposed to be a funny read and elicit a chuckle. Thanks for sharing your opinion of the chair, though, that's certainly welcome. I'm really not here to judge parents or any of that, but you're certainly entitled to that view if you like. :)
Jenn, I'm not sure what you're saying? It appears your comment didn't end up getting saved. Sorry about that, but feel free to try again!
I thought this was funny even though I used the Bumbo seat for my daughter with Spina Bifida :) Hey I don't care if it was called the Hefner seat if it meant she could sit up unassisted and play with her toys like other kids her age :)
That's for definite sure! Thank you for understanding that the piece is meant as humor, rather than any sort of "factual" reporting! I've not got any children of my own, but as a kid growing up with a disability myself, I can certainly see how anything that helps life be more normal and fun is useful! Great comment, thanks for contributing something useful to my silliness! :)
I can't believe how many people are offended by an article that was meant to be funny. Apparently there are a ton of people who need to take an ativan, relax, and enjoy a good laugh. Thanks for the article ForTheLove.
You're most welcome :) Glad you enjoyed it!
Haha! Named after a rum drink AND a hazard to young children??? I need to start selling these so I can get a bulk discount myself... Genius! I love understated ploys to undermine the future of our country and the youth of America...
Haha! :)
Glad you enjoyed the piece and a big thanks for commenting!
Bombo is also the first word in a jamaican swear word "bomboclaat" which made this pretty funny when explaining that I got a bombo chair to my jamaican Parents
That's even more hilarious, Guy! Thanks for adding to the melee, you brightened my day for sure :)
Hi I thought this was commical. But in all seriousness, we didn't have these chairs when my daughter was a infant, (almost 22 yrs) anyhow, I was horrified to be at a house and a mother put her chubby son in this bumbo on the kitchen counter, all I could think is this baby is going to lean backwards and he is going fall over with chair stuck to his bottom and would be seriously hurt, if he was to fall she wouldn't be able to catch him on time because she was at least 5 feet away. Some of these products are made are made for lazy parents or used as a babysitter!
Anyhow enjoyed your little article and wanted to let you know.
Teresa, that *is* pretty scary to see. And yeah, you're right alot of products that provide shortcuts/convenience really appeal to those with less than effort-conscious personalities, so to speak.
You see alot of that in the pet industry, too.
this wasn't funny
Fair enough :)
This is a really funny article, thanks for making me laugh!
I think the people pointing out the dangers of putting the Bumbo (complete with baby) on a high table or on the kitchen counter, should know that it's not compulsory to balance it in high places! Those storing their child way-up-high are perhaps asking for trouble, but this chair works extremely well just resting on the floor. Like a chair.
We didn't have this chair for my daughter as she was great at sitting by herself from an early age (such a prodigy!), but my friend has one now, and her baby looks like a cute little buddha, sitting proudly in his bumbo. And if I have another child I might be tempted to get one of these (despite the worrying statistics presented above...)
I recently purchased a Bumbo for my daughter that was born premature, because i thought it could help her developementally. I pulled up the chair to find out about accessories for it and saw the recall, and immediately freaked out! So this was not funny or humorous, and if you don't even have children-what are you some sort of petifle?
You are a sad, sad little person. Have you got nothing better to do with your life?
Mmmmmmmmmmmmm rum... hehehe
Okay that made me laugh pretty damn hard--I needed a good laugh lol
hehe, just goes to show how stupid some people are, taking this article seriously and taking offence, its joke and also ,its taking the piss out of how far ignorant poeple will go to blame someone else for ther own lack of common sense, i.e putiing ur child on a table or counter, twats. its likefat people triyingto sue macdonalds... ur own dam fault
*blinks* This was supposed to be funny? I completely missed the "this is fake" thing until I read someone comment saying it was.
Maybe, I am a little slow... but I do not see how the idea of little children being injured is something that would make you laugh. Or, something that you would find funny. And... leaving a child unattended while you go to drink or smoke or do some thing else that harms yourself and second-hand harms your children, is NOT funny to me. In fact, I find the whole thing rather offensive as a childcare provider AND a parent.
HONESTLY, get a life.... children getting hurt isn't funny.
Do the thirty parents with injured childeren think it is funny. ~NO you would have to be a spastic like yourself not to understand the use and importance of the Bumbo you wish to destroy.
I was worried about the writer's (fanatical?) state of mind ("dearest readers"?) until I started reading the posts, then I realized that it was all sort of tongue-in-cheek. So what's new? The Bumbo, like every other children's product out there has been and will be used by inept parent(s) who apparently never seemed to get the fact that it is dangerous to leave children in things on top of something. The logic of Murphy's law + wiggling child + unstable furniture + elevation = fall, disaster, etc. seems to elude far to many parent(s). And of course, there are always a few enlightened ones who like to make the unelightened ones aware of their erroneous thinking, gleefully poking fun while risking vehement prostestations of "insensitivity," "juvenility," and plain old "you don't understand what it's like to be a childcare provider/parent" (the implication being that they themselves are the original expert on child care, and therefore have authoritatively determined that said article is offensive to ALL parent(s), simply because they have one or two kids kicking around). Or they completely miss the point and start making wild accusations, claiming that the writer is mocking their pain, actively promotes child abuse, or is generally a BAD person, you know, the next Stalin or Hussein. Or maybe incarnate.
Seriously, if you don't like the article, fine. What I don't understand is how some people get so offended by it. Can't they read? Can't they understand? There is nothing in this article that would even remotely suggest that the author finds child injuries "funny", or that the author is a "petifile" (what?? paedophile?), and if one read to understand they would not make false assumptions that the author laughingly encourages parents to leave their child unattended whilst they have a smoke or a beer or shoot the breeze. It would seem, from reading these irate responses, that it is those readers who are spastic. And who freaks out immediately after reading one result? If I were somehow to get my The Moon Is Made Of Green Cheese website (I myself do not actually have such a site) to the number one spot on search engine results, would that reader freak out and bemoan the fact that they had been lied to all those years ago in elementary school? Or would they scroll down and find sites refuting that claim? Common sense is less and less common....
For those who do use and love the Bumbo, say so. To win converts state exactly why you like this "extremely useful and well designed product", listing facts and anecdotes as support, instead of just calling the article "obscene" and "abusive, ignorant and un-ethical". [I'm sorry, but if Bob says that blue gum is bad, and I stop chewing it (for WhatEver reason), I'm not gonna start chewing it again just because Mike says that what Bob says is "abusive, ignorant and un-ethical"...maybe if Mike said that blue gum was fat free and recommended by healf food experts everywhere I would....]
It seems that these disgruntled posters all missed the glaring fact that the author list no explicit facts for why people should stop buying Bumbo seats, or why there might possibly be a governement recall on them ("...deemed distasteful by Better Homes & Gardens magazine and the director of the television series Trading Spaces...lead to poor taste in color schemes for home decor later in life...this product is named after a[n alcoholic] drink..." these aren't sound reasons!!). The only implicit warning against them them refers to some parent's(') tendency to leave their young children in them unattended. So (Dear Readers :), once again, read to understand! Exercise critical thinking, use common sense, employ logical arguments and reasoning, and most importantly, Lighten Up!
mm mmmm...I didn't plan on getting this involved, but those last two comments drew me in....
Clearly, I am evil. I'm glad people are finally figuring this out.. at last I may ascend to my infernal thrown and take my rightful place as Ultimate Evil Global Overlord from Places Where Demons Come From.
I am stunned that people take this seriously.. or I *would* be if I didn't actually know better. I've weeded out the angry comments by people who SELL Bumbo seats so what you see above are all just "regular folks"... I guess. lol
Anyways, I don't have any real interest in Bumbo seats one way or the other since I've not got one of my own. What I *do* have an interest in the lemming-like behavior of paranoid follow-the-leader/sky's-a-fallin' type personalities. No offense to anyone who's that way.. I figure we all take turns at feeling that way, right?
I mainly hope you enjoyed my attempt at ridiculousness! :)
Who ever wrote this article is a MORON!! These things are the greatest, it has helped my child develop her balance sitting up quicker and she is quite content, alert and able to look around and learn more when she is in it. The fact that this person inquires about leaving a baby alone in it, while they go watch soap opera's or have a smoke, proves that they are in fact a true MORON on many different levels. I would not be suprised if they in fact did this very same thing to there child. There is no recall on this product because if there was it would not still be sold at Babies R, us. If something happen to this person child will in this seat it is there fault because they either walked away to watch tv and smoke or they did not have it on a secure surface. Either way this person is still a MORON. Maybe they should take some lesson's in parenting 101. Maybe they work for the competition and they are mad that some came out with a better product than them. Ultimately it is the consumer who decides if the product is what they are looking for and right know they are the hottest thing in the market, Mom's and Dad's know best. At least some of us...
And for the record your attempt at ridiculousness worked. You are ridiculous and no where in your article above do you refer to this article as a joke. So nice try at the cover up. I hope you do not write for a living because if you do its people like you that convey false information across the net, which in turn creates more MORON's like your self.
we were about to buy one of these for our dear friends when i saw this website and stopped in my tracks. I noticed the arcticle wasn't telly me WHY they were being recalled....but after reading some comments and the "fine print" I laughed at myself and this article. You got me! I am now going to proceed with my online purchase of this product. Good day...
People CONTINUE to take this seriously.. WOW..
I am officially chalking up every single comment added about what a jerk/moron I am to simple human laziness lol
It *is* funny that they're not actually reading the entire article but then they take the time to leave a huge long insult :)
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Humour pieces ? - you are a dickhead. I don't own or have any affiliation to said product, the only remotely objective comment was an attack on the colour. You've far too much time on your hands. Get a proper job.
Did not find this article funny at all. Was not even well written. Interesting because when I googled REAL reviews of the chairs THIS came up as #3.
"Maybe you missed the part below about this article being intended as humor (the "Fine Print" section of the article)."
Could you please point that out to me, in all honesty, how on earth is someone supposed to know that you're joking. This is ridiculous and I am wasting my time commenting on this.
I am a proud owner of a LIME GREEN DUMBO, and its my kids second one. They love IT. They have never ever fell out of theirs. The creches buys it by the dozen. Who cares about estetics if you can have colour in your life? Long live the Bumbo!
Hi, as you put it, either in he "Bumbo" chair, high chair, swing etc, who ACTUALLY leaves their child while they go smoke a cigarrette, goes next door for something, or watches TV without ACTUALLY watching and keeping an eye on their child. EVEYTHING is potentially dangerous if not shaperoned! I have never heard of the chair recalled and like everything else, you are told to NEVER leave your child unattended in ANYTHING! Remember that, things are only as dangerous as you make them, If not watched properly! Have a nice day! :o)
Hi, as you put it, either in he "Bumbo" chair, high chair, swing etc, who ACTUALLY leaves their child while they go smoke a cigarrette, goes next door for something, or watches TV without ACTUALLY watching and keeping an eye on their child. EVEYTHING is potentially dangerous if not shaperoned! I have never heard of the chair recalled and like everything else, you are told to NEVER leave your child unattended in ANYTHING! Remember that, things are only as dangerous as you make them, If not watched properly! Have a nice day! :o) A Bumbo chair was not invented to be a babysitter, so why would you leave your child alone in it......Just a thought!
booyah
Well the real reason I bought my baby a bumbo is so she can sit upright and so I can sit on the floor with her and pull stupid faces at her at eye level, to be honest this article is great and has given me a fantastic idea. I'm sure it would be waaaay more fun if we added alcohol to the situation! Ima gunna go pop some rum in her bot bot right now and she can sit in her Bumbo and we can go swig for swig! Thanks for the fantastic idea mate! Have a good one ;)
Oh, BTW My bumbo goes perfectly with my colour scheme... My bumbo's pink................ and so's my bum :) Cool huh?
I am amazed at the amount of controversy that this article has recieved. From the start of the article you can tell that it is a joke. I too believe that the recall on this product is ludacrus. There is a real recall on this product (well on the packaging) to add more warnings about not leaving children unattended in the seat. I have a Bumbo chair and used it with both of my kids and highly recommended it to anyone that I knew. To amagine that there are parents out there that are stupid to leave thier children unatteded in this seat or anyother is ridiculous. It makes you realise that there are bigger issuse in this world then some article that was written to make fun of a stupid government ruling that shouldn't have been needed in the first place.
I have been thinking about purchasing one of these chairs for my four month old baby, but I'm still undecided. A few of my friends have told me that they own one and wouldn't have it any other way. when discussing the debate with one of my proffesors and hearing they were under recall I decided to google and get some answers. After reading this article I am unfortunatly still undecided. It sounds like the bumbo seat would be ok to put your baby in and sit and play with him, but to never be used as a baby sitter.
Have the seat and LOVE it! And really, COMMON SENSE please! Safety is a matter of using your brain AND of putting first things first (as in your child! NOT distractions) Obviously one would be a moron to put a baby in this and walk away- but used as an aid to being with/playing with your baby this is excellent!
Also, my daughter is a pediatric OT and relies on this as an aid to helping provide practice to children with trunk stabilization problems! Great for a child who cannot ever sit up on their own- real sense of accomplishment! THANKS, Bumbo and boo to ForTheLove guy....
I don't understand??? My 4 month old loves his Bimbo, he sits in it and watches tv while I go to get cigs at the gas station... I also thought them bright colors are good for youngins. I don't like how you refer to the "Devils Liquor" - we made a crafty mobile out of beer cans - my little bubba loves it! I think this here article is very mis-leading...
You've GOT to be kidding! The most painful part of this post is the fact that NONE of you idiots can spell..."Sit on your Thrown?" (that's Throne for those of you who didn't catch what he was REALLY trying to say...) and shaperoned? Try Chaperoned... My eyes...my eyes are bleeding...ahhhhhhh
Bumbo in portuguese is a musical instrument.
Fine Print
This article and others in my Very True Facts series are intended as humor pieces to amuse you. Please do not assume them to be facts (though I have included some), but if you've gotten a chuckle or two out of it, please DO send it to your friends and family! Also, thanks for taking the time to read my silliness. I've also written an urban fantasy novel you can read for free online by clicking here: Swimming the Streets.
Ireland 32 says:
2 years ago
This is an obscene and offensive article which totally distorts the government findings. The chair is NOT being recalled, the packing IS. This is a SAFE chair IF a) you follow the instructions and b) keep the child within sight when using the chair. It is that simple. To distort the truth about this extremely useful and well designed product, and to further make an attempt of association with alcohol is abusive, ignorant and un-ethical. Get a life!