Homeschool Recipes: Naturally Sweet Organic Oat & Spelt Date Bars

We have incorporated cooking into our homeschool curriculum. Cooking is great for teaching fractions, life skills, healthy eating, etc. On our first day of homeschool last week, my daughter made organic oat date bars, a recipe I have not made for almost a decade. I forgot how … [Read more...]

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

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 … [Read more...]

I am a Homeschool Parent

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 … [Read more...]

Earth Week is for Mothers

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 … [Read more...]

Retro Earth Day: Remember this Pollution Ad?

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? … [Read more...]