Posts tagged with "Kids"
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What it’s Like Raising Children Off-Grid
By Greg Seaman, Eartheasy.com, Posted September 27th, 2012We wanted to raise “free-range children”, and learned how much active parenting was required…
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Are Children Spending Enough Time Outdoors?
By Greg Seaman, Eartheasy.com, Posted April 13th, 2012Study: only 51 percent of children went outside to walk or play once a day with either parent…
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Are you Feeding your Kids Twinkies for breakfast?
By Eartheasy.com, Posted December 12th, 2011Popular children’s cereals are overloaded with sugar, according to a new study.
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Cadmium in kids’ jewelry may pose poison risk
By Eartheasy.com, Posted March 22nd, 2011Cadmium is being used as a lead substitute, and its use in the marketplace is not yet regulated for children’s toys and jewelry.
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7 Ways to Wean your Child off Video Games
By Greg Seaman, Eartheasy, Posted February 8th, 2011Video games have taken the place of playing outside for many kids today. As parents, should we intervene?
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Prenatal pesticide exposure may raise risk of ADHD in children
By Eartheasy, Posted November 4th, 2010Recent study alerts us to unrecognized environmental threats to child development.
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Playing with the Moon
By Eartheasy, Posted October 13th, 2010The wonders of nature invite our imagination to play. This photo gallery offers an interesting perspective on how we look at the moon.
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Environmental websites for kids
By Greg Seaman, Posted March 5th, 2009Many parents are concerned that their children spend too much time indoors on the computer. This time is put to good use, however, when children learn how to become stewards of their environment.
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How to get your child excited about nature
By Greg Seaman, Posted February 5th, 2009Children are born with an innate curiosity about the natural world around them. How can we help them satisfy it?
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Feeding Our Future
By Michael Ableman, Posted January 28th, 2009Imagine a world where students could plant, harvest and cultivate the foods they eat in their school cafeterias.
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Pesticides & Kids – why you should be concerned
By Karen R. Forbes, Posted January 28th, 2009We are adding more chemicals in one form or another to our soil, food, water and homes. Is this a healthy trend?
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Outdoor Pesticides – are they worth the risk?
By Kimberly Monaghan, Posted January 28th, 2009Now is the time to take a second look at what we decide to pass on to our families, our pets and our environment.
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Spending time in nature, a natural remedy for ADHD
By The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, reported in Scienceblog, Posted January 27th, 2009Children with attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD) should spend some quality time outdoors when they are not in school, according to a nationwide study.
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