In response, in the FDA put its collective head together and set out new safety standards for manufacturers which included prescriptive testing and stringent record-keeping. That was a massive drag for clacker makers and then, guess what, the toy got pulled off of the market. A few years later, in , the Consumer Product Safety Commission was born and paranoia about unsafe toys became a pervasive feature in the childhoods of American Baby Boomers, ultimately sowing the seeds for the helicopter parenting style of today.
In fact, the US was so nervous about playing with the wrong things during that era that Dan Ackroyd created a Saturday Night Live character video called Irwin Mainway to show how silly it had all become.
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Follow Quartz. Naturally, like moths to flame, children will always be drawn to toys or really anything that can annoy their parents. In , clackers fulfilled that deep-seated desire many children to make as much noise as possible. Groovy history vs kids today. Originally, Clackers were made with tempered glass but after a few shattered and sent shards of glass flying like tiny Ginsu knives, manufacturers switched to plastic.
Unfortunately, while the switch to plastic did stop tiny shards of glass from flying at high speeds like a dirty bomb that just went off, they did not solve the problem. In fact, the plastic clackers tended to explode even more often than the glass ones. The improvement was that at least plastic was now rocketing around the room as opposed to glass.
SNL's take on clackers and helicopter parents. As the New York Times reported on Feb. A number of committees and organizations sprang up around the perils of clackers; according to an essay by Sarah Slobin at Quartz ,.
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