For the past several months I have been going to Northlake Mall to teach my daughter to share. The plan was to come up with something fun to have her give away and then see the fruit of her labor aka popularity and community play. I landed on Balloons. Kids cannot swing or throw them hard enough to hurt each other. On a couple occasions a mother would be very concerned about balloons around their child. To ease my mind, I did some research to find out the truth. For perspective, of the 5000 toddler deaths in 2000 only 1 was the cause of a balloon. Before we knew balloons were dangerous (in the 1980s) around 11 kids died each year from balloon related accidents. In the 1990s, the number dropped to 6 because of warning labels and public awareness. Today it is almost nonexistent. I cannot find any statistics past 2001 which was 4 deaths. Clearly there are not enough deaths to warrant significant research or acknowledgement. Also please note that there were only 17 toy related deaths in 20...