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Eco-friendly

Happy Earth Day!

April 22, 2010

I thought for Earth Day 2010, I’d high­light some of our pre­vi­ous reviews and posts hav­ing to do with liv­ing greener. If you’re look­ing for more ideas on how to live greener, check out my 15 easy tips for going green and sav­ing money.  I’d also like to rec­om­mend a cou­ple of books for newbies […]

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Book Review - Maybe One

June 3, 2009

Being an only child requires patience. There’s a lot of explain­ing about not hav­ing sib­lings, and about whether that was “strange” and about how Dis­ney­land might have been more fun with a sib­ling but if I’d had a sib­ling my par­ents couldn’t have afforded to take me to Dis­ney­land. It requires lis­ten­ing to peo­ple talk […]

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Magic Nuudles

March 19, 2009

On a recent trip to Min­nesota, my step-mom bought The Boy a new toy to pass some time. Magic Nuu­dles look like sty­ro­foam, but they are made of corn­starch. You sim­ply wet the “nuu­dle” with a damp cloth, and they stick together and to other objects.  Once you are done play­ing with the nud­dles, simply […]

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Green Toys

February 21, 2009

Green Toys is a San Fran­cisco com­pany that pro­duces Made in the USA (Cal­i­for­nia to be exact) toys. The com­pany uses recy­cled plas­tic from milk jugs for their prod­ucts. Green Toys’ web­site also states: Our prod­ucts pass a plethora of tests, includ­ing: Con­sumer Safety Improve­ment Act (CPSIA) Con­sumer Prod­ucts Safety Stan­dard Spec­i­fi­ca­tion, ASTM F963 Cal­i­for­nia Prop. […]

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Finding an acceptable balance bike

February 16, 2009

Bal­ance bikes are very pop­u­lar in Europe and I’ve read that they’re start­ing to catch on in North Amer­ica now as well.  They’re great because kids learn to bal­ance on the bike with­out hav­ing to worry about learn­ing to pedal at the same time, let­ting them bike at an ear­lier age (2 years old is […]

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Eco-paint

February 5, 2009

I loved Eco-dough, so try­ing Eco-kids eco-fingerpaint ($20 per tube) seemed like a nat­ural pro­gres­sion.  Eco-fingerpaint is made of all nat­ural ingre­di­ents.  The pow­der arrives in a tube like eco-dough and con­tains addi­tional small dishes to mix the paint in.  The tube and tubs are com­postable. Unfor­tu­nately, the lids fell off dur­ing ship­ping, so some […]

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Eco-Dough is an Eco-Do!

December 31, 2008

Eco-dough ($20 per tube) is a nat­ural alter­na­tive to play-dough for par­ents who do not have the time or desire to make their own craft dough. Eco-dough is made with plant, fruit and veg­etable extracts and with­out arti­fi­cial col­or­ing, met­als or chem­i­cals. Eco-kids also pro­duces an eco-dough that is gluten, dairy and soy free for […]

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The Mooncup Reusable Menstrual Cup

December 9, 2008

I’ve been try­ing to live a greener life, so in that spirit, I fig­ured it was time to give up all the tam­pons and san­i­tary pads I was throw­ing away every month and try out one of the reusable men­strual cups that are on the mar­ket. While the DivaCup is quite pop­u­lar among Amer­i­cans, I […]

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Crayon Rocks rock our world!

September 14, 2008

Not so long ago, my mom pur­chased The Boy some Crayon Rocks. I admit to plant­ing the seed after see­ing them on another blog, and they are won­der­ful. For young hands, they are eas­ier to hold, encour­age the tri­pod hold for older chil­dren, and color beau­ti­fully. Crayon rocks are made of soy wax and minerals. […]

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LulaSapphire.com

September 8, 2008

One of my favorite Euro­pean online shop­ping sites is the UK-based Lula Sap­phire. In addi­tion to car­ry­ing great prod­ucts from the likes of Boob, Dwell­Stu­dio, Ida-T, Katvig, Man­hat­tan Toy, Stork Sak, Swad­dle Designs, and Zutano, among many oth­ers, they claim to be the first car­bon neu­tral mother and baby retailer in the UK. They deliver […]

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