By: Susan Hunt Stevens is the Founder of Practically Green, a new online service that helps families make healthy and green changes in their daily lives. The other day we ran out of children’s Tylenol and I had to run to the pharmacy. As an allergy mom, I’m so used to reading labels that habit caused me […]
Tag: Safety
Sharing Info About Kids Online: What’s safe?
By Cory Bronson, co-founder of Wee-Web, a place where you can feel safe bringing your kids into your life online. Disclosure: We liked Wee-Web so much we’re joining their affiliate program. We don’t do this unless we think the company is a fantastic find and would fully benefit our members. Did you know that strangers can […]
Crazy Makeup — 5 Tips for Finding Safer Products
By Sarah Finnie Robinson, Director of Social Programming at Practically Green I am not one who can dash through the gleaming ground-floor cosmetics bazaar at Saks. No: I am the one you always see perched on a velvet highchair as a fleet of beauticians tsk-tsk over my gaping pores and fine lines and sell me tiny […]
Seasonal Safety for the Holidays
By Rene Appelbaum, co-owner & founder of Baby Proofers Plus Holiday decorations, especially candles and electrical lighting, can be fire hazards, and Baby Proofers Plus reminds parents and grandparents to take a few precautions when decorating and entertaining for Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwaanza and other fall/winter holidays and festivities. Some simple precautions can help to make […]
Tips for Taking Care of a Sick Baby
By: Alison Rhodes, also known as The Safety Mom There is nothing more stressful or scary for a mom than a sick baby. And now that the older kids are back in school, colds and viruses are bound to be coming home. So, how do you keep the germs away from not only your baby but […]
Halloween Safety Tips and Precautions for Kids
Trick or Treat! October is here and for the past few weeks kids and stores have begun reminding us of the most important night of the kid calendar—Halloween! By now I’m sure you have seen the piles of candy overflowing in supermarkets and the catalogues filling your mailboxes with both simple and elaborate costumes for kids, […]