Children and Toxic Chemicals

"We do not inherit the Earth from our anscestors,

we borrow it from our children."

Native American Proverb

This is a post I have been wanting to write since I began my blog. To the left under my Favorite Links you will see I have put Healthy Child Healthy World at the top of the list. It is a book and website I encourage every mom to be and parent to buy and log onto. I discovered it when Little Chick was a baby and all the lead recalls were coming out along with the information on BPA and phalphates. I don't know about you, but I was overwhelmed! I still am at times regarding making the right choices and purchases, but I feel like I am trying to make healthy changes all the time. As the book mentions, we must make small changes which will eventually become big changes.

There is no way that this one little post could cover even a portion of the things I would like to talk about, so I will pick one: pesticides. My yard is really lovely, but if you take a closer look you might see that I don't use pesticides. There have been too many studies showing how much our children and unborn children are effected by pesticides along with the thousands of other chemicals out there. Just last week Dr. Elizabeth Whelan appeared on a two night special CNN had, called Toxic America. It is horrifying what is being uncovered about children, chemicals, diseases, and cancer. I am bringing up pesticides because even though I don't use them, most of my neighbors do. And we live on a running stream. So when it rains we know where all those chemicals are running off to - my yard and in the water. One thing I grew up doing and have enforced especially since I had Little Chick is removing our shoes at the front door. The amount of chemicals brought into a home is unbelievable. Then our children are crawling and putting their hands in their mouths.

So I encourage all the mommies out there to log onto Healthy Child Healthy World and see for yourselves that it is an excellent reference for creating a healthier home for our children and families. I will bring up more topics as time goes on, but this is a good start.