My child’s safety and well-being are probably the most important thing to me. If manufacturers of products used by kids make claims about safety that are false – I get seriously angry! So I was upset to discover that a number of rulers in South Africa claiming to be shatterproof – are in fact not shatterproof! The whole point of having a shatterproof ruler is to prevent injury. If a child bends a ruler and it snaps into many pieces, it poses a risk for eye and face injury and swallowing. A number of manufacturers are selling rulers that are marked Shatterproof but they shatter dangerously when bent. This really concerns me, so I bought rulers claiming to be shatterproof from a few outlets to test them. I went to PnA, Pick n Pay, Checkers and The Write Shoppe and this is what I found. Croxley I bought a Croxley Shatterproof ruler from PnA at N1 City, Cape Town. According to their website: “The Croxley brand is synonymous with South African stationery over the last century and has b