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11/08/11

My five-year-old daughter started kindergarten ten weeks ago. She is excited, happy, and reasonably well-adjusted to life at our neighborhood public school. Yet, she recently confided in me that she “pretends not to look” at the third grade classroom door of a student who has teased her on the...

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Noreen Farrell

Environmental Health

11/08/11

We parents give a lot of orders. "Put your pajamas away. Clear the table, please. Don't pull the cat's tail!" But in her new book, Raising Elijah: Protecting Our Children in an Age of Environmental Crisis, it's Sandra Steingraber who gives the orders - to us parents. But she has just one, albeit a...

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Lisa Frack

Environmental Health Health Care

11/08/11

Before the birth of my first child, my husband and I did ALL the research. We read books on pregnancy, fetal development and the birth process. The desire to bring our child into the safest world we could create for him was really the driving force behind these preparations. We searched for...

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Erin Boles

Childcare & Early Education

11/08/11

By Ariela Migdal, Senior Staff Attorney, ACLU Women’s Rights Project According to a new study , sexual harassment, including unwanted sexual touching and sexual coercion as well as milder behaviors, is a regular feature of going to school for a significant number of American middle- and high-school...

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Roger Baldwin

Environmental Health Health Care Food!

11/08/11

Surprise: It’s November! Do you have your holiday travel plans together yet (spoiler alert: I don’t either). As you figure those out, here are a few quick and easy tips to make your travel experiences a little greener this holiday season. Pack lightly: Packing less is easy when you plan ahead, and...

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Claire Moshenberg

11/08/11

The Food Revolution School Lunch Photo Wall has just a few weeks left before submissions and ratings close on November 28th. So far, there’s been over 25,000 votes and over 200,000 of you have visited the photo wall . Not only have lunch photos been uploaded from all across the US, but from other...

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Jamie Oliver

11/08/11

Abigail E. Disney is one of three Executive Producers of the groundbreaking PBS mini-series Women, War & Peace, the most comprehensive global media initiative ever mounted on the role of women in peace and conflict. Tuesday, War Redefined – the capstone, finale episode – featuring all three...

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Abigail Disney

Environmental Health

11/07/11

Johnson and Johnson shampoo is iconic. The slender golden bottle with it's jaunty, nursery room font. The softly lit commercials of happily bathing babies and smiling moms. The formaldehyde-releasing preservative quaternium-15. [1] Hold on. What?! We were shocked when we read a new report by the...

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Claire Moshenberg

Childcare & Early Education

11/07/11

When I was about three years old, I observed something that formed one of my earliest memories. Sitting outside of my mother’s family home in Calcutta at twilight, I saw a man on the street walking very fast with a toddler in his arms. I think it was a boy. A few steps behind them was a woman,...

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Rinku Sen

Open Flexible Work

11/07/11

Not that I needed another reason to be grateful for many of the workplace benefits my current employer provides but I can’t help but be incredibly thankful that during Connecticut’s “snowtober” as it’s being called, my employer has allowed several of her employees the ability to work from home, be...

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