A while back, I was having a conversation with friends who have two small children, both under 5 years old. We were discussing how difficult it is to raise the children, what with both of them working full-time. I don’t have kids myself, but I can empathize with just how busy their life is. Somehow [...]
With every pair of their shoes that you purchase, TOMS Shoes gives a pair of new shoes to a child in need. Pretty cool, right? Their One for One program has given over one million pairs of shoes to children in need through their partners around the world. That”™s amazing. TOMS”™ founder Blake Mycoskie found [...]
“Improving the lives of children living in high-risk, urbanized neighborhoods by helping to create a sense of positive self-regard and self-reliance, a strong work ethic, and hope.” Seriously, what could be more noble than that? I just found out about The Urban Farm here in Denver, which happens to be only 4 miles from my [...]
Just a few weeks ago I came across a few websites that can help your child’s school go green. While there have been articles here on The Good Human about buying green back to school supplies and a green school in Colorado, these two sites below can help parents, teachers, and kids to make their [...]
There is a new charter-type school coming to Denver this fall called the Denver Green School – and if I had kids I would definitely send them there! DGS is a Neighborhood Performance School, which means that while they get to create their own education program different from regular public schools, it still has to [...]
If you have (or are soon to have) a child in diapers, remember that there are great alternatives to those big packages of disposable diapers that everyone seems to use. Did you know that almost 20 billion plastic diapers get thrown into landfills each year, and studies estimate that they each can take up to [...]
Over the weekend I received a question from Beth, who after looking at baby shower registry list wrote me to ask about one of the items on it and if there were any safer alternatives. She said that the large place mat for babies made by Baby Einstein has an ingredient called Poly Ethanol listed [...]
