Archives for April 2009

Happy Fun Dough Colored with All Natural Plant Extracts

Kids love play dough, and of course you can make your own, but who has the time? Even when I have made my own natural play dough, we usually end up ruining it by using unnatural food coloring. Not Happy Fun Dough: it's colored with all natural plant extracts. Happy Fun Dough … [Read more...]

National School Lunch Program Heavily Influenced by Lobbyists

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/v/tVfAWbitBTs&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1] Every wonder how the mystery fish sticks or tater tots ended up in your school's lunch program: think politics, think lobbyists. $10 billion is … [Read more...]

Mother’s Personality Affects Eating Habits of Children

Editor’s note: The following post was originally published on Green and Clean Mom. “Green & Clean Mom can inspire you to try a little harder, be a catalyst for change and to offer you some new tips and news on how to be the green, sexy and sassy mom…I know you are!” A study … [Read more...]

Teen Gets 2-Week Suspension for Taking Her Birth Control Pill

Zero Tolerance policies often include everything under the sun: prescriptions, over-the-counters, and of course the illegal junk. But when a Fairfax County, Virginia mom got word that her daughter would receive a two-week suspension for the birth control pill, she was … [Read more...]

Flame Retardant Whales

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/v/KAUpz4t71J4&hl=en&fs=1] One of the great blessings of my adult life was a summer vacation spent with my husband and children at Catalina Island Camps. We spent the better part of the week learning about the ocean, our food supply and … [Read more...]