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The Trouble with Toxics: What Dateline Missed and Why
Small Zombies in the Winter of Our Discontent (Photo credit: Wikipedia) NBC’s Dateline just this week ran a well-executed two-part series on toxic chemicals that included body burden testing of one of...
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Asking Safeway: Who Will Mind the Store?
Yesterday, I gladly joined the Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families campaign to ask retailers to do a far better job of screening their products for hazardous chemicals. The group has developed a list of...
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A Conversation that Could Change the World
(Photo credit: Wikipedia) When we buy stuff for our homes — like food or personal care products — many of us, including my own family, try to do the best we can for the planet and our own health....
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The Resilience of Children, and All of Us
Maya…in…space, photo by Jay Premack, http://www.jaypremack.com From the time a child is born, there is the struggle: to know, to do, to become. As a parent, we spend a baby’s earliest days answering to...
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Everything But the Kitchen Sink: 5 Simple Steps to Greener Food Storage and Prep
I’ll concede off the top that it takes a, well, special level of pickiness to go through your own kitchen cupboards with a gimlet eye, wondering which of the assorted containers, cookery, food...
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Children Are a Gift. Except When They Are Not.
Parenting as Infographic, #3. A missive from vacation, can’t ya tell? Filed under: Parenting Tagged: appreciation, baby, beach, bodily fluids, booger, Child, chortle, comedic, comedy, deep thoughts,...
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Why Telling Working Moms to Lower their Standards on Parenting Is Actually a...
cartoon made using Toondoo An acquaintance from law school recently posted the following on Facebook: Just wondering – are there any parents out there who work full-time and don’t constantly feel like...
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Easy DIY Toy: How to Turn an Old Sweater into a Cuddly Snake
I love hand-made toys, and this one, an adorable and not-at-all menacing crafted sleeve snake we dubbed Sammy, takes only an hour or so. Ergo, it’s yet another low-risk high-reward DIY adventure. And...
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Toxic Hot Seat on HBO tonight!
Red sofa (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Hallelujah! A new film about the struggle to understand and address the hidden poisons in our sofas — Toxic Hot Seat — airs for the first time tonight on HBO. Slate...
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Dump Dora, and 7 More Tips to Help You Enjoy Reading to Your Young Child
We all know we’re supposed to read to our kids. And while I often truly love our snuggle time with a book, reading to a child — let’s be honest — can also sometimes feel like a bit of a chore....
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