Parenting

TIME Raises A Ruckus & Safer Cosmetics Makes History

May 16, 2012

by Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff Executive Director & CEO Healthy Child Healthy World www.healthychild.org TIME raised a ruckus recently with a profile of “attachment parenting” guru Dr. Bill Sears, highlighted by a cover photo of a mother breastfeeding her three-year-old son, according to the Huffington Post. Healthy Child believes breast is best—especially for the first year, [...]

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Vaccines Cause Autism Symptoms in Infant Primates

May 8, 2012

The link between autism and vaccinations is being rekindled again by revisiting research from a few years ago. Even though the media has convinced most of us there is no causal link between vaccinations and the rise in autism, some scientists have not dropped the subject thankfully, although more studies need to be done. Research [...]

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No Sugar, Vegan Chocolate Cupcake Recipe with Surprise Ingredient (Avocado!)

May 8, 2012

Last week, my daughter and I made these delicious vegan chocolate cupcakes. The recipe was sent to us by her grandmother. We modified the ingredients based upon what we have (I have included the modifications below in parentheses). These cupcakes are very rich and moist thanks to a surprise ingredient: avocado! You can’t taste the [...]

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What Do Girls Really Think of Barbie?

May 4, 2012

We all have our opinions about Barbie! Some people adore this icon of American toys; some people blame the doll for distorting our perception of the ideal beauty resulting in 32,000 boob jobs a month. We know Barbie is guilty of greenwashing and that she is toxic, but what do the little girls that play [...]

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Autism and Chemicals, Cancer Report Under Fire, and Kudos!

May 2, 2012

by Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff Executive Director & C.E.O Healthy Child Healthy World www.healthychild.org Potential Autism Causes Identified What causes autism? Dr. Phil Landrigan, professor and chair of preventive medicine at Mount Sinai Medical School in New York and Honorary Board member of Healthy Child Healthy World, recently released a comprehensive list of environmental triggers, published [...]

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Honest Kids Deserve Honest Tea

May 2, 2012

Honesty has been on my mind lately. My dashboard dictionary defines “honest” as “free of deceit and untruthfulness; sincere”. For a company to use such an adjective in their name, they better mean it! As parents, we notice when our very young children try to lie to us for the first time. It is [...]

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I am a Homeschool Parent

April 30, 2012

Last week, we started homeschooling out ten-year-old daughter. Our reasons are social and emotional, not necessarily academic. Her school environment is no longer healthy. We had tried to support and work with the school (of which I am a part-time teacher), but things were only escalating and getting worse. Thus, it was time to make [...]

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Naturally Parenting a Child with Special Needs

April 27, 2012

My son was born with a congenital heart defect, suffers from strabismus, and he has childhood apraxia of speech. As a teacher, I have much experience with children of special needs, yet it is one of those things you think happens to other people, like car accidents and cancer. I won’t use the word unfortunately [...]

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Earth Week is for Mothers

April 25, 2012

by Rachel Sarnoff, Executive Director & CEO Healthy Child Healthy World www.healthychild.org Happiest Babies Are Soothed by 5 S’s Can simple soothing take the place of sugar? That was the takeaway from a new study published this week in the journal Pediatrics. In a study involving more than 200 infants, researchers found the “5 S’s” [...]

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