Category: Children

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Giveaway: Envirosax Kids Reusable Bags.

This giveaway was closed in May 2008. Posting will be light this week as I will be away for most of the week, so please bear with me. Thanks! I have written about Envirosax before, and we still have our bag with us at all times. We keep it right in the car in case [...]

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How To Become An International Virtual Volunteer.

Over at My Supercharged Life, Jeff has a great post up about “virtual volunteering” that you should check out. You don’t necessarily have to travel to far away lands to make a difference! If you have some time, a desire to make a difference, and access to a computer then you can become a virtual [...]

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My Wife Just Cut Off All Her Hair For Locks Of Love.

OK, not all of it – but a lot of it. She went in for a haircut and was talking with her stylist (who had just finished another haircut that went to the charity) and decided to go for it as well. So what started as a “few inches off” went to “a lot of [...]

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Top 10 Ways To Green Your Children.

I get individual questions from readers all the time about being green with children, so I figured putting together a post could be of some assistance. Let me know if I missed anything, and add it to the comments! 1. Ditch the disposable diapers. Nearly 20 billion plastic diapers get thrown into landfills each year, [...]

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Is The HPV/Cervical Cancer Link A Hoax To Sell The HPV Vaccine?

News Target seems to think so. Now, I take most things I read on the internet with a grain of salt, but I (as did my wife) thought this new push to have women “get vaccinated” against cervical cancer to be a bit much to swallow – and we might have been right in our [...]

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Healthy Toys Keeps You Up To Date With Which Toys Are Toxic.

A blog that I read quite frequently, The Dough Roller, found a great site this morning called HealthyToys, which bills itself as The Consumer Action Guide To Toxic Chemicals In Toys. We launched HealthyToys.org because children’s products should not contain toxic chemicals! No government agency is adequately assuring that children’s products do not contain harmful [...]

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Buy Dangerous Toys This Year So You Can Stock Up On Cheaper Toys For Next Year.

This month’s Kiplinger’s magazine has an article encouraging parents to actually stock up on toys this year because next year they might be more expensive due to tougher safety regulations. Huh? So I should go out and stock up this year on potentially lethal toys to give to my kids next year instead of waiting [...]