Take it from any parent who ever shopped for Christmas toys: some of them just look so cute and fun, you grab them and head straight for the register.
But it behooves us to be smart consumers in the toy aisles as well as in the rest of the store.
OSPIRG, Oregon's public interest research group, just put out itslist of toysthat pose potential hazards--toxic, choking, or ingested--and found nearly two dozen of them. OSPIRG's Maddie Kusch-Kavanagh and Amber Kroeker of Randall Children's Hospital in Portland run down the dangerous toy list and explain the perils.