Twenty years ago, I was waking up early to type, just like I am this morning. As early as third grade, my best friend and I wrote and published a “newspaper” for our class, reporting on such scintillating and crucial stories as who was sliding on the ice at recess (complete with illustrations…never a talent [...]
My son wants to change the world, one lunchbox at a time. When I got my copy of Fed Up with Lunch in the mail, he read the title and sighed, "Fed up with lunch? I’m fed up with lunch, too, all that Styrofoam." I wasn’t sure what he meant, but he explained that hot [...]
Tags: juice·kids·recycling·school food
Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to learn to identify artificial sweeteners – or teach someone else to root them out. Impact Ratings: Level of Commitment: Baby Steps (photo source) If your child goes to school, chances are they’ve ingested some artificial sweetener in their time there. Got a Valentine’s Day party coming [...]
Tags: artificial colorings·artificial sweeteners·juice·kids·Monday Missions·school food
I’m a former elementary school teacher. Ever since I was a child, I’ve always taught something to someone, whether it was my little brother against his will “playing school,” my students when I had a bona fide paid teaching job at a Catholic elementary, or my children when I became a mom. Now I type [...]
Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to advocate for change. Make SOMETHING happen this week that you care about, in any arena. Impact Ratings: – your call Level of Commitment: Making Strides I find more and more that I am deleting online petitions and recycling envelopes from charities before I even open them. [...]
Tags: Call to Action·monday mission
Does General Mills market their cereals appropriately to kids? I received an email from a long-time reader this weekend, and it fit perfectly with my already-planned Monday Mission on being an advocate. I just had to share it with you, in her words: (photo source) This past Monday I received an appalling email from the [...]
Tags: Call to Action·cereal
Sign this. I’ve been ranting about the evils of triclosan and how it drives me mad that Bath and Body Works includes it in everything for years now. (Here’s a letter some of us sent to B&BW two summers ago before school started. And since we’re coming up on back-to-school time – no, we’re not!!! [...]
Tags: antibacterial·antibacterial soap·Call to Action·letter-writing·triclosan
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