For parents looking to ease their newborn children into the world of bathing – a world typically filled with healthy amounts of fear and anxiety on the part of first-time parents, and a dose of discomfort and cold on the part of infants braving the cool air and poorly designed conventional bathing devices – they should look no further than the innovative European-designed Tummy Tub, currently for sale over in the Organic Shop at www.organicgreenmommy.com.
Featured just this week (April 30th 2009) on NBC’s The Today Show, the Tummy Tub basically …

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Now that Lauren is pregnant with our second child, I’ve been thinking a lot about my role and responsibilities throughout the course of this new pregancy, as well as what my duties should be during labor and childbirth, given what I learned the first time around.
For our first pregnancy, we were of course filled with excitement, curiosity, and anticipation. We went through everything hand-in-hand, including the early crises (originally doctors determined that Lauren would undergo an “abnormal” pregnancy and possible misscarriage), all of the subsequent …

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Back in August 2008, we presented an article called Uncovering the Truth About Toy Safety, in which we explained the challenges parents face when selecting safe toys for their children. Ironically, at the same time, the United States Congress was also at work on this issue in reaction to widespread product recalls on toys imported from China, mostly due to instances of lead-based paint. That same month, President George W. Bush signed what would be called the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act into law, which …

While no sane person would advocate or recommend practicing denial in order to cope with this “crisis,” a more healthy way of dealing with the current financial situation in the country would be to avert our attention away from the car crash, keep our eyes on the road ahead of us, and focus on the things that we wish to manifest in our lives, instead of the things we don’t wish to experience.

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Late in 2007, just as the holiday toy-shopping season was ramping into high gear, some of the biggest stories coming out of the $20 billion per year toy industry weren’t about the latest innovations or the next hot property. Instead, just about every headline about toys sold in the United States concerned wave after wave of toy recalls.
The major culprit, by and large, was excessive amounts lead paint used on toys originating from Chinese toy manufacturers. A major question emerging in the wake of these …