Autism and Chemicals, Cancer Report Under Fire, and Kudos!

May 2, 2012

by Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff Executive Director & C.E.O Healthy Child Healthy World www.healthychild.org Potential Autism Causes Identified What causes autism? Dr. Phil Landrigan, professor and chair of preventive medicine at Mount Sinai Medical School in New York and Honorary Board member of Healthy Child Healthy World, recently released a comprehensive list of environmental triggers, published [...]

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Honest Kids Deserve Honest Tea

May 2, 2012

Honesty has been on my mind lately.  My dashboard dictionary defines “honest” as “free of deceit and untruthfulness; sincere”.   For a company to use such an adjective in their name, they better mean it! As parents, we notice when our very young children try to lie to us for the first time.  It is [...]

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I am a Homeschool Parent

April 30, 2012

Last week, we started homeschooling out ten-year-old daughter.  Our reasons are social and emotional, not necessarily academic.  Her school environment is no longer healthy.  We had tried to support and work with the school (of which I am a part-time teacher), but things were only escalating and getting worse.  Thus, it was time to make [...]

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Naturally Parenting a Child with Special Needs

April 27, 2012

My son was born with a congenital heart defect, suffers from strabismus, and he has childhood apraxia of speech. As a teacher, I have much experience with children of special needs, yet it is one of those things you think happens to other people, like car accidents and cancer. I won’t use the word unfortunately [...]

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Hank D and the Bee: Bee Thankful

April 26, 2012

Follow the rest of the Hank D and the Bee series at JoeMohrToons.com. For cartoon updates and other green goings-on, follow Joe on Twitter @GreenCartoons.

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Earth Week is for Mothers

April 25, 2012

by Rachel Sarnoff, Executive Director & CEO Healthy Child Healthy World www.healthychild.org Happiest Babies Are Soothed by 5 S’s Can simple soothing take the place of sugar? That was the takeaway from a new study published this week in the journal Pediatrics. In a study involving more than 200 infants, researchers found the “5 S’s” [...]

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EWG’s Guide to Green Cleaning: Greenwashing, Cancer, Blindness, Asthma…

April 24, 2012

Christianity equates cleanliness with godliness, but unfortunately many of the commercial cleaning products on the market are dangerous to your health. The Environmental Working Group (EWG) has just published their Cleaners Database Hall of Shame.  The full report is due out in the fall of 2012. The first edition of the EWG Cleaners Database is [...]

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Roundup Herbicide Linked To Parkinson’s-Related Brain Damage

April 23, 2012
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Awkward Children’s Literature about Friendship

April 23, 2012

There is nothing worse than watching your child struggle through the trials and tribulations that come along with friendship.  There are many children books out that help children learn to make new friends, maintain friendships, and recognize what makes them desirable to other children for companionship. Poppy, The Wandering Balloon by Eli Jay is just [...]

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Retro Earth Day: Remember this Pollution Ad?

April 22, 2012

This ad from my childhood made me feel very nostalgic this morning. It probably had some influence on who I am today. What happened to such public service announcements? Why are they no longer televised? Via: Moveon.org

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