Embrace Eco-friendly Child Care
You care about the environment and also your family’s health. So it’s time to embrace eco-friendly child care!
Many daycare and child-care centers around the U.S. are embracing eco-friendly ways, and it’s not a day too soon. That’s why we’re building a huge directory of eco-friendly child care centers around the country. We have over 120 listed so far and we’re adding more every day. Check them out! And if you know of one you’d like to add, please send us an email to feedback@lowimpactliving.com.
The State of Oregon’s Environmental Council has taken a pioneering role in certifying child-care centers with their Eco-Healthy Child Care program. Child care facilities qualify as “Eco-Healthy” by completing a 25-element checklist that highlights 25 steps facilities can take to ensure a safe place for children. Eco-healthy child care centers commit to reducing a child’s exposure to toxins and other environmental health hazards.
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As you know, children’s little lungs and respiratory systems are particularly sensitive to toxins and irritants in cleaners, carpeting, furniture and other elements. That’s why it’s so important to pay attention to indoor air quality when children are in the mix. You need to be able to rest assured that your daycare center uses non-toxic cleaners and is careful about outdoor and other pollutants that might come in from landscaping, street care, etc.
The Eco-Healthy Child Care checklist includes questions about cleaning toxins, lead paint, furniture, plastic toys, recycling and more. Take the checklist to your current daycare facility and have them fill it out– it will be illuminating for you as a parent and may inspire them to take positive action!
We hope you can find a great facility near you– and please continue to check back here at Low Impact Living as we will be adding centers frequently. Here’s to healthy kids and a healthy planet!
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What a great resource!
[...] It’s not possible to protect your child from every toxin and threat in the environment but you can shield them from a lot at home and away by choosing an eco-friendly daycare. [...]
Green options are out there for your kids. You just have to look for them. We are one of two accredited camps that are green-certified in the US. Many other camps are eco friendly to varying degrees. Make finding green camps a priority and more will make the effort to green themselves.
Sneezes, coughs, runny noses, spills, and messes are facts of everyday life with children, which is why it’s never too soon to teach little ones about germs and ways to stay clean and healthy. Here is a fun and safe way to keep our kids from getting us and everyone around us sick: Germy Wormy Germ Awareness for Germ Transportation Vehicles ages 2 –7. Since she was taught this in daycare, our child is no longer playing the pass the germs game!
http://wwwgermywormy.com.
Give kids a PLACE to give their germs to- Instead of you! “
Sneezes, coughs, runny noses, spills, and messes are facts of everyday life with children, which is why it’s never too soon to teach little ones about germs and ways to stay clean and healthy. Here is a fun and safe way to keep our kids from getting us and everyone around us sick: Germy Wormy Germ Awareness for Germ Transportation Vehicles ages 2 –7. Since she was taught this in daycare, our child is no longer playing the pass the germs game!
http://wwwgermywormy.com.
Give kids a PLACE to give their germs to- Instead of you!
I hate to play the Grinch, but nowhere on the list does it ask about whether the facility allows cloth diapers. The overwhelming majority of daycares do not. Non-toxic cleaners are certainly a good idea, but let’s not “greenwash” facilities that require the use of disposable diapers.
Day care is not just a babysitter, it should provide valuable education and development skills. To know practical tips on everyday child care and daycare issues visit here http://www.childdaycarelearningcenter.com/
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My company makes an all-natural essential oil-based antibacterial spray called Clean & Fresh. Is is eco-friendly and contains no toxic chemicals. Perfect for home or day care centers.