As a leader of a small rural playgroup I was quite horrified by a toy one of my four-year-olds recently brought to show the other children. The toy, one of his birthday gifts, was a chainsaw with appropriate sounds, which he told me was 'just like Daddy's'. I am sure I was not the only concerned playgroup staff member and would welcome anyone's views on whether these 'replica toys' should be produced when the real ones are so dangerous.
As a leader of a small rural playgroup I was quite horrified by a toy one of my four-year-olds recently brought to show the other children. The toy, one of his birthday gifts, was a chainsaw with appropriate sounds, which he told me was 'just like Daddy's'.
I am sure I was not the only concerned playgroup staff member and would welcome anyone's views on whether these 'replica toys' should be produced when the real ones are so dangerous.
Anne Ferries, Norfolk.
