Juice is fruit, so it’s healthy, right? Not really. First, let me make clear that I’m talking about the juice you find in bottles or juice boxes in the beverages aisle at a grocery store, not the stuff people make at home with a juicer or the purchased equivalents that have to be kept cold. [...]
Entries Tagged as 'kids'
Juice makes you pee your pants (and other reasons not to drink it)
February 9th, 2012 · 42 Comments · Food for Thought, Kids in the Kitchen, My Story
My Child is a Green Activist (& He’s Only Six!)
February 7th, 2012 · 3 Comments · Call to Action, Green Living
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
Monday Mission: Seek and Destroy Artificial Sweeteners
February 6th, 2012 · 35 Comments · Call to Action, Monday Missions
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
If You Take a Chickpea to First Grade…
February 2nd, 2012 · 84 Comments · Kids in the Kitchen
…the teacher will probably still serve pretzels. Last week I got an email from my first grader’s health teacher announcing that they’d be tasting healthy snacks that Friday, and parents were invited to send in some food for the class to share. Healthy snacks? Oh, now you’re speaking my language! Examples of healthy snacks included [...]
Would you Like Some Chemicals with your Car Seat?
September 21st, 2011 · 4 Comments · Green Living
Last month HealthyStuff.org released a list of toxins found in car seats after testing. The car seats are ranked with low, medium and high toxicity. Certainly we all want our babies (and big kids in boosters) to be safe, but what about actual crash test ratings? The optimal car seat would be easy to use, [...]
Tags: booster seats·car seats·flame retardant chemicals·kids·safety
Do We Need “Stuff” for Faith?
September 16th, 2011 · 16 Comments · Mary and Martha Moments
I’ve really enjoyed pondering the ways in which I share my faith with my children and how being a parent enriches my faith so far in the Faith of Our Children series, but this final topic threw me for a loop. We’re supposed to write about the tools we use to build our children’s faith, [...]
Tags: catholic·faith·kids·sacramentals·The Faith of our Children
20 Reasons I LOVE Living with my In-Laws
August 30th, 2011 · 36 Comments · My Story
There’s not a speck of sarcasm there. I am very grateful for my current living situation. Pulling back the curtain of one’s life to millions of Internet users (or thousands of blog readers) certainly opens a person up to different kinds of feedback than life in a normal neighborhood. Since we moved in with my [...]
