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How to Sterilize Kid’s Toys (How to be a Good Parent)

Posted by on February 28th, 2007 at 12:13 pm

Okay so we all know the story of the first baby.  First Baby (FB) has pretty outfits for every occasion.  First Baby is washed, and watched, and pampered, and filmed (various modalities).  First Baby is “Baby Makes Three” and nothing NOTHING goes into FB’s mouth that isn’t first washed, sterilized with distilled water, and kissed with Mommy’s tender love.

So then.  You have more kids.  Life gets more complicated.  You get more tired.  You get older.  You take the binky from the dog’s mouth and hand it to the baby.  You realize that being a “good parent” is open to interpretation (Thank GOD!!).  So this is for those of you who are younger (than me) and have only one child.  Everyone else, feel free to look away.

Sterilizing toys helps prevent illness, the spread of germs, and forestalls any free time Mommy might have at the end of the day.  To properly sterilize, open the garbage can and throw it in.  No really.  Anyway, here’s what you do if you are serious about killing germs — soak the offending germ-infested plastic toys in a solution of 3/4 cup bleach in one gallon water.  And if you’re still reading this, then you are a far better parent than I.

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Here’s where baby wipes work too. Never did the beer thing, but I probably would have. My kids are fine.

Anonymous commented on Jan 01 70 at 12:00 am

Bleach? C’mon, the kid’s better off with the germs.

Anonymous commented on Jan 01 70 at 12:00 am

My mother’s version of sterilizing toys? Blowing on them.

Anonymous commented on Jan 01 70 at 12:00 am

RachelZ – you were better off using the beer anyway – alcohol sterilizes, right?!?!

Anonymous commented on Jan 01 70 at 12:00 am

Thing 1 got treated like he was Thing 1000. We never went for the sterilizing of anything. Nothing more than sticking the pacifier in my Guinness if it fell on the restaurant floor.

He’s 3 1/2 now and has never had more than a sniffle.

Anonymous commented on Jan 01 70 at 12:00 am

I sterlize nothing. I’m too lazy. In fact, the other night, we were out at dinner and The Wonder Toy (her chew ring thing) fell on the floor. Did I or did I not pick it up, dip it in my beer, wipe it off with a napkin and then hand it back to the baby? Indeed I did. Had there been water on the table I would have used it, but since we only had beer, I used that instead.

I am a FANTASTIC mom.

RachelZ commented on Jan 01 70 at 12:00 am

I’m not sure sterilizing everything does make you such a great parent. I mean, how is the poor kid going to develop any kind of immune system??

Anonymous commented on Jan 01 70 at 12:00 am

I count wiping the object (that fell on the ground) on my shirt as ‘acceptably sterilized’

Anonymous commented on Jan 01 70 at 12:00 am

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