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The Impossibility of Modern Motherhood (and What To Do About It)
(Photo credit: The Library of Congress) This post could just as easily be called: “Why Women Will Never Have it All, But Still Should Fight For More.” Today’s Atlantic Monthly contains a blockbuster...
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Burning Questions: An FAQ on Flame Retardants in Furniture
Whenever I scan the search engine subjects through which people now stumble over my blog, it becomes clear that the major thing everyone wants to know is whether they have a toxic sofa in their house...
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Talking to Toddlers: A Eureka Moment
Photo credit: Wikipedia In a more-or-less crash course on how to deal with a near-two-year-old, I’ve flipped through a significant number of parenting books full of perky, preachy “dos and don’ts” on...
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Toddler Nutrition: Feeding Your Child for Optimum Health
The hardest thing about nutrition is to actually do what you know you should do. We all know that a diet of whole, unprocessed foods is best, and that in order to avoid sugar, excess salt and nasty...
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The Twinkie Did It, Mom, I Swear: The Crisis in Child Nutrition and What It...
When I read Kelly Dorfman’s new book, What’s Eating Your Child, a few weeks back, I was stunned by the number and variety of child health problems that turned out to be related to diet. The book is a...
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Slightly Sprouted Green Lentil Salad
Moong (or mung) beans are eaten far more in Indian cuisine than American, but they shouldn’t be. For a dose of health, you can’t do much better than these. The small, oval dark green lentils known as...
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New Study Released Today Confirms: 85 Percent of Couches Contain Toxic Chemicals
A new study in the peer-reviewed journal, Environment Science and Technology, was just published today by Heather Stapleton. Its results confirm what she has been saying about the ubiquity and harm...
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Are You a Modern Canary?
(Photo credit: Wikipedia) This is cross-posted from Dr. Claudia Miller’s excellent blog, here, where she writes about her fascinating work on intolerance to chemicals and their impact on health. Thanks...
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Must Read: Flame Retardant Chemicals in my Gatorade??
Gatorade Vending Machine (Photo credit: revtango) The New York Times ran a great piece today detailing one 15-year-old’s battle to remove brominated vegetable oil — “BVO” — from soft drinks in the U.S....
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Merry Christmas! And a Winter Wonderland of Crafts
It almost snowed today! At least, we got a few half-hearted flurries. Which fit wonderfully with our latest crafty ventures — winter wonderland painted creations. The supplies are simple, the options...
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Nothin’ But Blue Sky
What to do with a low-ceilinged, windowless basement room? Give it to the toddler, of course… But then, it just screams for some cheer. When my friend Lisa showed me the charming mural she had painted...
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The Best and Worst Week, Basically Ever
The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly (Photo credit: Cayusa) I’ll start, as one always should, with the good news. On Friday, the state of California, acting at the direction of Governor Jerry Brown, has...
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5 Toddler Transition Tips That (Sometimes) Work for Me
Just this morning, we were rushing to get out the door, late and harried, and I was putting our bags in the car when I heard Maya start to loudly bawl behind me. She had wandered out the front door and...
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A Greener Easter
Around here, the holidays of whatever sort are mainly good reasons for crafting. (We’re devout Unitarians, meaning that we go to Christmas Eve services religiously every year. Ha.) This year, I eyed...
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The Trouble with Toxics: What Dateline Missed and Why
Small Zombies in the Winter of Our Discontent (Photo credit: Wikipedia) NBC’s Dateline just this week ran a well-executed two-part series on toxic chemicals that included body burden testing of one of...
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A Conversation that Could Change the World
(Photo credit: Wikipedia) When we buy stuff for our homes — like food or personal care products — many of us, including my own family, try to do the best we can for the planet and our own health....
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The Resilience of Children, and All of Us
Maya…in…space, photo by Jay Premack, http://www.jaypremack.com From the time a child is born, there is the struggle: to know, to do, to become. As a parent, we spend a baby’s earliest days answering to...
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Hot Reads: CA Takes Back Its Dumb Rule, Chemical Reform Under Contemplation,...
(Photo credit: stevendepolo) Kick up your feet: this couch won’t bite! Fantastic news from California! It looks like beginning this winter, furniture makers will be able to jettison toxic flame...
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Everything But the Kitchen Sink: 5 Simple Steps to Greener Food Storage and Prep
I’ll concede off the top that it takes a, well, special level of pickiness to go through your own kitchen cupboards with a gimlet eye, wondering which of the assorted containers, cookery, food...
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Safer Cosmetics and Personal Care Products: Avoiding the Dreaded “Icky 11″
If you’re on a search and destroy mission for toxins in your home (and you are — right, friend?), a pretty good place to start is the bathroom. Personal care products are rife with nasty and suspect...
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