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Neil Shaw

Mum explains four toys she won't let children play with as she is an undertaker

A mum has banned her kids from playing with lightsabers, sleeping in bunkbeds or using trampolines after deaths she dealt with when she worked as an undertaker. Lauren Eliza, 29, said she's branded a "Grinch" over her safety concerns.

The mum-of-two bans her toddlers, two and four, from playing with balloons, skipping ropes, magnets, lightsabers, and refuses to let them go to trampoline parks. Lauren used to work as an undertaker and attended so many childrens' autopsies which have made her extra cautious about her own kids.

The accidental deaths she dealt with have made her determined to reduce the chance of any of these incidents happening to her family. Lauren, a stay-at-home mum, said: “People call me the Grinch because I keep presents and toys away from my kids.

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