Iraqi Children Paying the Highest Cost of War

According to Democracy Now!:One In Eight Iraqi Children Die Before the Age of FiveIraq's infant mortality rate has soared by 150 percent since 1990 according to a new report by the charity Save the Children. One in eight Iraqi children now die of disease or violence before the … [Read more...]

Green Family Values: Are Our Children Lab Rats?

Monday's Daily Grist included the headline "I Believe the Children Are Our Lab Rats: Pesticides could make kids dumb, diesel emissions make them sick". After the recent news about BPA in baby bottles, lead in children's lunchboxes, jewelry, and baby bibs, as … [Read more...]

Whimisical Wooden Instruments

Although I am not a musician, I believe it is important to provide children with musical instruments for their play. Many of the oral muscles used in playing these instruments are necessary for speech development. Exhaling through an instrument is great practice for making … [Read more...]

Can You Assign a Monetary Value to Motherhood?

Mother's Day is approaching, which means someone, somewhere will try to assign a salary to motherhood to demonstrate the value of this job. Every time I hear this news, at first I applaud the effort, then I wonder, what's the point? Isn't motherhood, or fatherhood, beyond … [Read more...]

ALERT: Wal-Mart Recalls Baby Bibs for DANGEROUS LEAD Content!

The nightmare of unsafe levels of lead in children's products continues. Now, Wal-Mart is recalling baby bibs sold under the name "Baby Connection." These bibs are cloth on the top, but they are backed with dangerous PVC vinyl. When you visit the Wal-Mart's recall page, you … [Read more...]