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Frank Furedi, professor of sociology at the University of Kent, warned that toy safety bans were part of a trend to micro-manage children's lives at the expense of allowing them to explore, learn and have fun through play. "Toys and activities, such as blowing up balloons, are part and parcel of the type of children's play that helps them become independent and self-reliant," he said. Doesn't this neocon of sociology realize that independence and self-reliance are a Torry/repug anti-government dependent way of life and thinking, and that the future is all and be all federal family / it's a village dependence? He wants to ruin the lives of these children is what he wants.
"These safety standards have been agreed by the UK together with the other EU member states in order to guarantee more government regulation oversight jobs," said a spokesman.