It’s been a crazy winter, but we can still spend time outside. Did you hear me? Hey everyone, GO OUTSIDE!!! From Jennifer Lance and EcoChildsPlay: Play Outside! Free Range Kids are Happier and Healthier From Heroin and Cornflakes: New Pediatrics Study Identifies the Risks, Consequences of Video Game Addiction From iStorytime: A children’s poem urging…
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Disney Eats Your Daughters
I’ve mentioned some of the reasons for our distaste for Disney’s kids movies (and other ‘blockbusters’ as well) before, so when I came across this interview with Peggy Orenstein, author of Cinderella Ate My Daughter , I thought it was well worth sharing: “My biggest surprise as a parent, or one of them, was how much…
Environmentally and Economically-Friendly Eyewear for Children
Every parent knows that children are magnetically attracted to making messes; they’re also not the most careful of beings. Things mysteriously break and clothes are permanently stained. Every parent also knows that’s par for the course when raising happy, healthy children. To help combat the inevitable smudges and scrapes, a few environmentally-conscious eyewear companies have…
Hershey’s Chocolate Changes Children’s Lives (but not the way you might think)
Hershey is the favorite chocolate brand in the U.S., with 42.5% of the market, but much of the cocoa used to produce their chocolate may very well have been produced with forced labor, human trafficking, and abusive child labor. According to their website, Milton Hershey loved children, so he founded the Milton Hershey School for orphaned…
Ring the Bells of Peace (video)
A great video about what we really need to do in this world. With Melissa Etheridge and Salman Ahmad for Search for Common Ground, a non-profit organization that works to transform the way the world deals with conflict. Find out more about the organization at www.takepart.com/sfcg. And a special holiday shout-out to the friend who sent…
Fatherhood and the Spirited Child: 7 Tips for Parenting a Fiery Child
One of the beautiful mysteries of parenting is how different our kids can be from each other. One child can spend hours playing independently, and another wants constant engagement with others. One child tends to be mellow and adaptable, the other is easily excitable and highly energetic. It’s beautiful, yet also has the potential to…
Movember 13th, 2010: Do it for them
Today’s Movember video, featuring my youngest, and moustache #13 in the series…
The Diarrhea Song: It’s Funny, Until It’s Not
Clean water and a toilet. Something so common for us is hard to come by in other parts of the world. And often that lack is deadly, especially to children. The diarrhea song is all good and funny, until it turns fatal. Watch:
Bullies and Kids: How Do You Respond?
I got a message on Twitter the other day from a mother, asking if I had any father’s advice for her about a bullying issue that her young child had to deal with in school. She mentioned that her husband was currently deployed, so she was reaching out to me, as she felt that I…
Chemical Industry Decides Public Health Really IS Better Than Private Profits
[This is a guest post by Janelle Sorensen] In a turn of events not even Nostradamus could foresee, Cal Dooley, President and CEO of the American Chemistry Council (ACC), today announced that the millions of dollars the industry trade group has been using to lobby against policies that protect public health will now be used…
The Best Gifts Don’t Cost Much
[This is a guest post from Alison Kerr.] The best gifts in life don’t cost much. Here is my list of gifts to give your kids during the next year.
