Promise Brand – Doing Social Good!
Are your children’s toys healthy?
We have toys that do just about everything these days, but every year millions of defective toys are taken off the shelf due to lead hazards or other harmful impalements. Forbes Asia indentified the recall of more than 25 million toys in the United States due to toxic lead over the past fiscal year.
Why did toys have to get so complicated? Remember the old days of classic wood-crafted blocks, dollhouses, and airplanes? And how much equal satisfaction and enjoyment were derived from such items in the simplistic imagination as a child?
It seems as though so many manufacturers these days fail to exercise due diligence amongst the mad rush to cut costs and stay on top of the toy industry’s competitive market. We’ve lost much of the quality and innocence of classic toys and what have we got instead? Toxic lead-infused plastic trinkets and a handful of brats!
We thought it would be nice to spotlight some innovative and close friends of MicroGiving who came out with a line of all natural organic toys. Promise Brand Toys are doing there part to practice social good through a special line of safe, environmentally friendly, and certified lead-free toys for children made from 100% wood, all natural linseed oil, and milk paint.
Promise Brand upholds a strong social good principle to provide quality handcrafted and educational toys to be both enjoyed and cherished long-term. It’s nice to see a toy manufacturer making a family-conscience effort to produce quality toys that are safe for children!
And there’s a lesson to take away from this: doing social good - providing quality, value, upholding integrity, and a mission to help others (whether in the form of a business model or your personal practices) is the formula to succeed in life. This means fundamentally changing your outlook: rather than seeking merely “profit”, it means seeking “people, planet, and profit” and eternalizing a social responsibility to everything you do in life and in business.
Check these guys out at www.promisebrand.com, there awesome! And let us know your thoughts on this post…
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1. June 2009 at 11:33 pm :
Oh, I remember the good ‘ol toys!! When you are a child you are incouraged to use your imagination, sadly, as we grow up somewhere along the years we lose our inner child. It’s no longer “OK” to sit and daydream of special make believe places we can go and hide or how to make race cars from erasers. In the end we ALL lose out.
I went to the website and the building blocks are beautiful BUT in my eyes very expensive. I could not afford $68.00 for 12 blocks. They are very nice looking though.
2. June 2009 at 2:52 am :
I’m with Rainbow on this. I didn’t have toys growing up. My parents couldn’t afford more than the basics and my sister and I learned to use our imaginations and we played outside as often as we could and made up fun games when we were inside. My boys had toys for the first 5 years of their life but when my ex went to prison everything we owned had to be sold and that included their toys and lots of the nice clothes they had. From young ages they too learned to use what was in their own mind and was freely available outside to play. They didn’t have gift giving holidays like other children and I didn’t use free gift programs but their lives were not empty. They had a good mom who would join in their made up games, crawl inside their bedspread tents that in their mind was a wilderness fort.
While the blocks from promisebrand are nice, I think they are too expensive. Parents can easily make building blocks out of scotch tape and pieces of cardboard recycled from food packaging. Draw letters or numbers on them and they are just as good. When one gets lost…as we all know will happen, you can easily make another. For younger children or special needs kids who might collapse the blocks they can be filled with recycled paper, shredded old clothes, styrofoam and even popcorn to fill up the space so they do not cave in easily.
I applaud the social responsibility, but I believe the best social responsibility is to teach families how to play with their children and help them develop through imagination….that is free and is the best educational tool or toy there is.
2. June 2009 at 5:51 am :
Promise Brand Toys Are Environmental Safe Toys
We need more of these kind of toy for kids safety. Their are too many unsafe toy on the market today.
Our government need to make stricker laws to all toy manufacturer to let them comply to make safer toys.
Too many kids die every year all over the world because of unsafe toys. We have the technology to make most of these of these toys that we import. With that said we need to prevent the import of so many unsafe toy that enter in this country every year.
Parents spent too much money yearly on kids toys for these terrible accident to happening so often.
3. June 2009 at 5:06 am :
We should try to promote toys like promise brand toys. They need more publicity or marketing so more parents can buy toys like these for their kids.
I am pretty sure they have a wider variety of toys on the market that we do not aware of.
Let all try to give them more support with their toys.
3. June 2009 at 3:12 pm :
I have absolutly no problem with promoting anything that is environmently sound and I had not meant that in my post. I maybe worded it wrong-which is something I do more often than not. The blocks themselves are really beautiful and you are right Jamel in saying parents spend WAY too much money on dangerous toys for kids. I just meant that they are a little pricy for ME. Others maybe can afford them and that is fantastic!! As far as supporting the person building them, KUDOS!! I applaud anyone who is trying to make the world a better place. I will whole heartedly support the site! I was also wondering if they had any other toy lines or if this was it for now until they build it up?
5. June 2009 at 6:06 am :
Hi, my first time here. Wow, I like the blog, very interesting. I look forward to reading more soon. I definely support any blog who encourages others to give and donate. There is a lot of need out there. Anytime someone donates it truly is a miracle on earth, something that is rare, because once they give they could have just as easily, simply chosen not to give. So I thank you to all those donaters out there, who give, they truly are earth angels. And to those who need donations, I say to you never give up, what someone said to me once and has helped me a lot. Sincerely, Penelope B.
5. June 2009 at 5:16 pm :
Penelope – thanks for checking us out, and especially for the encouragement!
6. June 2009 at 4:35 pm :
I am so glad that my kids have out grown the toy stage. It would scare me to death if I had to worry about everytime my baby stuck something in his mouth. It seems to me that most of the toys recalled are made outside of the US and in my opinion using cheap labor and childern to make the toys. Since most countries don’t have the same guidelines as the FDA this is going to happen. Maybe the answer will be that toys have to be completely made in the US to be sold here. That would cut out so many of the dangers to out children. No parent should have to worry that picking up a toy from walmart could be dangerous to the health of thier child.
6. June 2009 at 5:36 pm :
From waht I read on there web page was their toys are nontoxic and orgainclly
made this means that it is safer for kids to play with, any thing containing none
nontoxic are better for the whole world and if I have kids that’s waht I would want for them.
To Microgiving thanks for all of your help and information on day to day things
some in which I have never though about .
7. June 2009 at 7:21 pm :
I just looked at the promise brand toys and wow they are great. I love the old fashioned wooden blocks. When my oldest son was a baby I had the hardest time finding those. Its nice to know that a company really cares enough to worry about what kids are playing with and how it can hurt them. I really really love those blocks way to go.
17. June 2009 at 10:26 am :
I had a great childhood. I had a safe environment with my safe toys. It’s a shame that our children didn’t get the same. Moreover, it’s a shame that Unitied States can’t place the toys in a program like the food. Although our food isn’t really safe either.
As the econonmy gets worse, the crime gets worse. There is a lot of “sicko’s” out there just to destroy. For example, placing poison in your candy for Halloween, or razor blades. It’s so sad. What’s being done about?
As a parent, I know that I need to keep my child safe. How are you supposed to know that the toy goes on recall? Like it says in the Lord’s prayer, ” Forgive me for the things that I cannot change.”
Christy
21. July 2009 at 1:22 am :
I think these Promise Brand toys are great. You know that they are safe for kids. I know it’s hard to tell which toys are safe now a days and it’s scary. The lists of toys, what is safe and what is not, are so confusing too, even when you print them out. I think a lot of parents would be willing to buy these toys knowing they are not toxic to their children. Some may not be able to afford them though, so check the lists.