Race Car Beds Safety

As with any product designed for young children, a race car bed is not simply a bed. It is also a potential area for accidents and injuries for your kids.

To adults, a bed is simply a bed for sleeping in. But to young children, a bed is not just a bed; it is a playground, a world for them to live their imagination in real life. And that is why there are race car beds; your child isn’t sleeping in a race car bed, he’s driving it, he’s a world class racer in his world.

When buying a race car bed, parents shouldn’t be only concerned with how comfortable the bed is, or how much your child will love it. More importantly, parents should make sure that the race car bed is designed and built with care to prevent injuries and other unfortunately accidents that children might get into.

Sharp Edges

As with other beds out there, race car beds may come with sharp edges on its frame. Kids like to run around in their bedroom, and sometimes they fall and injure themselves. Therefore its best that beds around the room don’t contain sharp edges so that your children don’t fall onto them.

Race car beds, because of their race car body design, can contain more sharp edges than common beds, and some of these sharp edges can be hidden from view. Like edges under the wheels, behind the steering region; these places are not easily discovered, but your child, with their smaller body and hands, can reach them and end up cutting themselves.

You could pad these sharp edges with foam or rubber, or you could also smoothen the surfaces using sand paper. But padding the race car beds or polishing them could ruin the race car design or deface its surface which is not practical.

Joints and Fittings

Race car beds usually require some form of assembly at your house, and assembly means there are joints and fittings involved. It is best that you keep your excited away while you assemble the race car bed. The assembly is not exactly straightforward, and it also involves some large and heavy blocks. If you’re not careful, you could pinch your kid’s fingers at the joints or worse still; have a heavy block fall onto your child.

Even after completing the race car bed, you have to be careful that the joints and fittings don’t offer any space for your little child to stick his or her fingers into lest their tiny fingers get stuck. Make sure all the joints are closed up, and if there are any gaps left in between, make sure they are filled in with paper or are taped up.

Paint

Race car beds can be made of wood or more commonly today, heavy duty plastic. In either case, they are both covered with an external coat of paint to give them their race car feel. Like real race cars, this coat of paint is shiny and glazed.

Real paint of race cars is sometimes made from fairly toxic materials that include lead and other heavy metals. But that is fine because racers don’t chew on their race cars; but your underage driver at home will. This can be problematic if the paint on your race car bed is toxic and your child ingests some of it.

Before you make your purchase, make sure you check out the race car bed manufacturer for certificates and other official licenses to certify their products as children safe.

Stickers

A race car wouldn’t be complete without flashy graphic designs on the car body or advertisements of the sponsors. Race car beds too carrying the mark of their manufacturers and the option of graphic designs are available too, albeit not embedded as a coat of paint like in real cars.

Race car beds come with decal stickers for you to stick on the bed. The bed usually comes with pictorial instructions on where to stick the decals, but you are of course free to put them anywhere you like.

Some of these stickers are fairly small in size and can be swallowed by a kid. So you should not leave any of the stickers lying around if you did not use them. The colorful stickers can be easily mistaken by the child as sweet wrappers. Overtime, the stickers could also peel off, especially if the stickers are of low quality. When they are peeled, children could also possibly tear them and put them into their mouths.

Try to get high quality race car beds, which would come with high quality decal stickers that are less likely to peel.

Moving Parts

Some race car beds come as close to the real thing as possible, complete with moving wheels, car head lights and sometimes even a car horn that works. Children love the moving parts, especially wheels. Children cannot resist turning them round and round whenever they have the chance.

But make sure that the wheels or any moving parts on the race car bed do not allow for the entanglement of hair or clothes of your kid or the results can be disastrous. Moving parts are not recommended especially if your child is very young. Alternatively, you could secure the moving parts to prevent them from moving until your child is old enough to handle them.