Tuesday, January 5th, 2010
12 Things Your Child Should Avoid
I just read an excellent blog posting I wanted to share with you! Safbaby.com just uploaded this new article on 12 ways to keep your baby and kids toxin-free in 2010. Many of the tips will be a refresher for some (avoid the dreaded BPA is by now hopefully familiar advice for all parents), [...]
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Sunday, October 11th, 2009
Non-toxic, Earth-friendly Kids’ Rooms
We recently had our third baby, another precious life to nurture, sustain and protect. Back when we had Kai, our first son, almost five years ago, I was just starting to become aware about the toxic load carried in most common paints and household building materials.
When my helpful mother-in-law painted Kai’s room for us, I [...]
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Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
Kindervibe loves our Greentainers!
A while back I sent one of my favourite Kai Kids products off to the ladies at Babyvibe and Kindervibe in BC (great newsletters for parents featuring tips and amazing new products, even if you aren’t lucky enough to live on the Best, er, West coast). One of the moms behind the scenes, Nancy, has [...]
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Monday, March 30th, 2009
Kicking Our Plastic Addiction
Is your family surrounded by a sea of plastic gadgets, toys, bottles, bags, and containers? Looking for ways to cut back to help ;protect the planet and reduce your family’s toxic load?
I just wrote an article for the fabulous parenting site BabyontheWay.ca, all about trying to pare our family’s life of plastics and suggesting lots [...]
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Friday, February 13th, 2009
Cute, PVC and lead-free bibs, aprons and lunch bags
Back in the fall, I brought a new line of super fun, colourful and safe bibs and spill-proof feeding gear to Kai Kids from the U.S. I’d been a fan of Mimi the Sardine’s funky and eco-friendly products for a while and was thrilled to bring them on board to our store. We launched the [...]
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Friday, January 23rd, 2009
Back to the blog
Hello everyone and happy (belated) 2009! I can’t believe i haven’t blogged in over a month! Apologies all around. December got busy with Kai Kids at shopping shows, plus our own kids, Christmas celebrations and then our family got felled by a horrid virus that left us all sick over Christmas and New Years, reeling, [...]
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Monday, November 10th, 2008
Tip: A safe, non-toxic disinfectant for toys
Last week Peter and I were working our Kai Kids booth at the Children’s Trunk Show. We always enjoy meeting our customers and talking to other parents about products, kids, and things we go through as parents! I was chatting with a customer about using reusable wipes for diaper changes at home, and how we [...]
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Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
Clean Green
Ever since I found out that I was pregnant with my Big Boy about four years ago, we’ve had a ban on conventional cleaning products in our household. At the time, I did some homework and found out how most common, popular household cleaning products and detergents were filled with toxic chemicals, VOCs [...]
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Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
More reasons to avoid Bisphenol A
For the past year or so many of us have read or heard about the dangers of the chemical Bisphenol A, used to make hard polycarbonate plastic. Today a new study piles on even more evidence that BPA should be banned.
Just after we launched our online store Kai Kids last November (fully stocked with [...]
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Thursday, August 14th, 2008
Weekly Green Tip: Reusable Baby Wipes
This morning I was lucky to be be interviewed for an article for iparenting.com! The reporter was asking me for tips on green living with your family, especially for easy ways to go green without spending a lot of money. Unfortunately, although prices are starting to come down, eating organic, buying organic clothing and natural [...]
