It’s Time to Fall Out of Love With Cheap

Lately every time I sit down to post I feel like Tippi Hedren in The Birds, frantically swatting away at all the competing topics flying around my head.  But today, there is a very large, very insistent bird on my shoulder with its talons dug in, that’s been pecking away at my cranium like a [...]

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Tips From “Food Rules” – Michael Pollan’s New Book & Going Gluten-Free

Nutritionist, activist and author, Michael Pollan, has a new book which distills many of the ideas presented his earlier works, “The Omnivoire’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals” and “In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto,” into simple food rules. These are wonderful rules to teach to children of any age. Whether kids follow [...]

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Outraged? Yes! Cadmium in Children’s Products China’s Latest Export (USA TODAY)

Since the CPSC lead paint toy recall, I have had my doubts about all children’s products that are made in China. Here’s new reason that we should remain skeptical at the least and simply avoid all Chinese-manufactured products that our children play with and wear at best. Perhaps this could be somewhat of a boon [...]

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I Am An iPhone Addict (please help!)

My wife and I are trying. She has her own fashion business and I work from home. As much as I hate to admit it, my iPhone is usually on the floor next to me while playing with our daughter. I check it at red lights while driving. It’s on the table at restaurants and [...]

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Through The Seasons: One Year In 90 Seconds

Thanks to the work of Eirik Solheim from Oslo, Norway I was touched deeply by the magic of nature. For an entire year in 2009, Mr. Solheim captured 30 seconds of video roughly every week and edited the year’s footage down to a total of 90 seconds. If you have a child nearby, why not [...]

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Thinking About Speaking | Detriments of Gossip And It’s Permanence On The Web

After reading a piece about the effect of gossip on our culture and the way that it affects the way our children speak and interact, this article suggests that we teach our children to ask three questions before we say something to or about someone else: 1) Is it kind? 2) Is it True? 3) [...]

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Branded Kids and the Diabolical Depot

I’ve been reading a lot about advertising’s effect on kids and the general over-prominence of big corporate brands in our culture lately, as I’ve cruised through Packaging Girlhood and Consuming Kids (Red Pill Parent bibles, by the way: and Packaging Boyhood, by the same authors, was just published in October).  But I had an opportunity [...]

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Germs, Part Deux

I am so bloody guilty of thinking short term about food – it’s almost like a mental illness.  It’s certainly like an eating disorder.  I might know, intellectually, without a doubt, that I shouldn’t eat something (the fish sandwich from Long John Silver’s for instance, which I inexplicably crave on cold, rainy days).  But there’s [...]

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Germophobia-phobia

Lately, I can’t seem to get through an issue of The Week without coming across something worth sharing.  This time, it’s about germs – a topic extremely relevant to parenting, no?  In the December 11th issue, on the Health & Science page, there’s a little bit entitled “More germs, please.”  Now I am decidedly a [...]

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Will Your Kids Still Be KooKoo For Cocoa Puffs?

From CNBC article dated Dec. 9, 2009: “The Rudd Center recently published a study that found the least-healthy breakfast cereals are the most frequently and aggressively marketed directly to children. It also found that General Mills markets to children more than any other cereal company, and six of 10 least-healthy cereals in its study were [...]

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