Puppies and Babies and Little Cape Wearers

   It's true that kids and dogs are not really that appealing unless they're your own, but I always get a bad feeling when I see the car commercial where the little kids are playing in close proximity to the wheels of automobiles where their parents are selling cars. The dogs are usually leashed, but the kids are often free range, and one of them sometimes spins out of sight in the showroom.  Assuming they are all under the supervision of at least several adults, the children are obviously in no imminent danger. But should it seem acceptable that they, and others through the magic of television,  think it a good idea to play near the wheels of an automobile?
   Even more of a potential threat to the health of children is the recently aired OTEZIA commercial. The setting is near a swimming pool, and a young girl approaches a woman, presumably her mother, who KNOTS a cape around the girl's NECK and then sends her off to play, near or in the swimming pool. I'd thought it was a given that children are better off with Velcro or snap fasteners than with anything that is knotted. Especially when the knot fastens a flowing cape, and most especially when that is knotted around the neck, and even more especially when the child is playing near water.  As my old high school science teacher used to say, call it simple sense, not common sense, because sense is not common.