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12/22/11

Last week we hosted an event to test toys and holiday gifts for toxic chemicals. We do these events across Michigan and inevitably find some nasty chemical in one or more toys. At this particular event a mother of two came in carrying a large bag of her four-year-old son’s treasured items. She came...

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Rebecca Meuninck

Childcare & Early Education

12/22/11

A truly clueless if well-intentioned column by Gene Marks titled “If I Were A Poor Black Kid” in Forbes magazine is getting righteously ripped from journalists all around the web . They’re correctly pointing out how bereft Marks’ column is of history, research, practical awareness, racial...

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Cynthia Liu

Environmental Health

12/21/11

The following is a guest post from a favorite mom of mine with some great news - Mary Anne Hitt, Director of the Sierra Club Beyond Coal Campaign: Are you one of the over 800,000 people who submitted a comment to the Environmental Protection Agency supporting proposed mercury pollution protections...

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Sarah Hodgdon

12/21/11

Parents can always use extra hands--and while we can't give you extra hands, we can help you out. This holiday season we're doing a limited run of MomsRising tote bags as a gift for our holiday donors: Any donation of $35 or more will be mailed a gift of a free tote bag of your choice to help carry...

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Environmental Health Health Care Food!

12/21/11

The holiday season is in full swing, and for much of the country, winter coats and mittens are here to stay for the next few months. But even though it's felt like winter for a while, today is the official last day of Fall. Lets celebrate the end of the season by taking a look back at all of this...

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Claire Moshenberg

Paid Family Leave Open Flexible Work

12/20/11

Another smart post from our friends at Role/Reboot . -Eds. I’m on the board of a small, parenting-related nonprofit organization, a board comprised of smart, thoughtful women who are mostly mothers of small children (and one dad, though our father pool is growing). In addition to our full-time...

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Misty McLaughlin

Environmental Health Food!

12/20/11

Of course you don't serve your kids Twinkies or Chips Ahoy! cookies for breakfast. But many of us are serving our kids just as much - or more - sugar every day in the good ol' American cereal bowl. How much? See how bad it really is in Environmental Working Group's new report, Sugar in Children's...

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Lisa Frack

Environmental Health

12/20/11

by Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff Executive Director/CEO Healthy Child Healthy World www.healthychild.org Have you checked your toy list twice? Wait, let me rephrase that: Have you checked the list of what’s in your toys twice? I just discovered the toy database at HealthyStuff.org , which ranks more than...

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Rachel Sarnoff

12/20/11

Overmedication of America’s children is a real and growing problem. The rate at which powerful antipsychotic drugs are being administered to kids has increased by an alarming 500% over the last 15 years, and there is not enough research to understand all the physical and behavioral consequences for...

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Shadi Houshyar

12/20/11

I am a member of Consumers Union's Safe Patient Project. Why? My son died from poor medical care when he was just 11 days old. There were many lapses in my son's medical care. Now, I work for safe care to reach the newborn bedside. Holding James After all, the infant mortality rate is a common...

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