This is my interview with Dr. Phil Wazny NMD. In this video I ask a few of the most frequently requested questions to Dr. Wazny. Learn about what supplements are most important to give your children, tips on getting children to eat healthy, and which chemicals are most important to avoid. You can read more about Dr. Wazny on our About Page.
Enjoy!
Nickie
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This European-style highchair is a nod to modern technology and features a “transformers” like structure that allows it to reincarnate itself into different pieces. Ideal for ages six months to five years, this clever seating system includes an adjustable footrest, hinges that connect with magnets and extendable arms. This all-in-one high chair converts into a booster seat, space saving chair, restaurant high chair, modern high chair and commercial high chair; essentially, there’s the chair for older kids, the sturdy step stool, highchair and regular chair.
This highchair is perfect for grandparents, ideal for restaurants and a perfect chair for busy families on the go. This dynamic design means fewer stubbed toes, more monetary savings, and more space.
Designed by the Danes, who demand space-saving devices for their modest sized homes, this wooden highchair is made with FSC-certified solid Birch cut from sustainable forests in the European Baltics. Steel, BPA and phthalate-free plastic components and water-based and formaldehyde-free varnishes are used to create the chairs. An online video explains the easy process of assembly (no tools required). Watch this video to see how cool the HandySitt Chair is!
The Minui Handy Sitt Chair and the Minui Portable Chair is the Green Giveaway this week ($300.00 Value)! Be sure to enter!!
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Santa Clara County California has banned the sale of Happy Meals and other such enticing promotions focused on children. This effort is aimed at making children have healthier eating habits.
NY Times reports:
The criteria, which are based on federal standards and recommendations from the nonprofit Institute of Medicine, would apply to all fast-food restaurants giving away toys in meals in-tended for children. Ken Yeager, the board president, said the new law would level “the playing field by taking away the incentive to choose fatty, sugary foods over healthier options.”
“What we’re trying to do is de-link the connection between unhealthy food and toys,” said Mr. Yeager, who added that he believed children chose their meals based on the giveaway that came with it. “Why would a kid say ‘I want a burger with fries’? It’s the toys that they want.”
This is controversial to say the least and I am not sure exactly where I sit on this one. I believe that a positive reinforcement will produce the same behavior again. When you praise your children for doing something that you would like them to do again they are more likely to repeat it. Works like a charm! So, the same theory would apply to recieving a toy with your unhealthy meal choice. Let’s do that again, right?
My children never cry because they are not getting the happy meal simply because McDonalds has never been on our radar. The car does not head in that direction and my 7 year old is convinced that the fun looking play structures inside are just to trick you into eating unhealthy food. I once received a call from a parent when he was in preschool because of his lobbying. She wanted me to tell him to stop telling her son that there are chemicals in the food…..oops! I am not entirely convinced that legislation is going to make a difference in the way people choose to eat healthy or not. I think the way children eat is from the way they learn about food at home. Let’s educate people on the beauty and deliciousness of healthy food and then you will make change. Thank you Jamie Oliver!
Is it the corporation’s that we should be looking at? After all, we have a choice to dine at a particular restaurant or not. I wonder what the cafeteria is selling in the Santa Clara County Schools? Hopefully someone looked there first since school is not an option. Just food for thought…
Nickie
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Global Green Pals are educational dolls that serve a dual purpose; they promote play and saving the planet. There are five 12-inch dolls in the collection of Green Pals, which are handmade in Sri Lanka with clothing and accessories made of natural and organic fibers and low impact dyes. The Global Green gang includes Carbon Offset Chet, Clean Air Kate, Pink Coral Laurel, Pani Rani and Recycle Kyle. Each character highlights major environmental issues including: global warming, air pollution, recycling, water scarcity and conservation.
The dolls are stuffed with 100-percent post consumer recycled plastic PET bottle stuffing and each cute character comes with a tag printed on recycled paper (with soy-based inks) that tell their story and offer kid-friendly green tips on saving the planet. Proceeds from the sale of Global Green Pals goes to One Percent for the Planet.
There is an online store at globalgreenpals.com and each doll is priced at $22 for Hip Moms Go Green readers, enter discount code: HIPMOMS. There’s also an online blog that is written by each of the doll characters as well as a narrative of the complete story of the Global Green Pals.
Be sure to check out our Green Giveaway this week, the winner gets the entire set of Global Green Pals!
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In honor of Earth Day we have created a series dedicated to inspire environmental awareness and conversation between you and your kiddos. This book will surely do the trick! I received a copy of The Magic School Bus and the Climate Challenge by Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen to review and loved it. This book is filled with easy to learn facts about climate change. Be sure to check out our Green Giveaways to enter a chance to win this delightful book and an Organic “Go Green” Scholastic t-shirt.
The book starts out when Ms. Frizzle brings an old book of the world to class that she had when she was a little girl. Then she whisks the children off in the flying Magic School Bus to tour the world. The children are amazed at the differences in what they see happening on the earth today and what was in the book years ago when “The Friz” was only nine years old.
The difficult subject matter is presented in a way that my four and seven year old boys found highly entertaining. As always The Magic School Bus is fun and beautifully illustrated. Your children will come away from this book educated and inspired in the different ways they can make a difference in the greenhouse effect. My boys got out coloring materials and started drawing up plans on how they can help teach other kids to use less energy. I am overjoyed!
Be sure to sign up for this fun webcast with “The Fizz”!
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Tom Cruise might have had Renée Zellweger at hello, but you’ll be a goner faster when you spy the ducklings waddling across the T-shirted chests of the wee ones on luvmylolly.com. Featuring original artwork sure to captivate the mom- and kid-set alike, these T-shirts (from onesies on up to size 6) will thrill your heart along with your wallet; 15% of the profits from each sale of the featured artist’s tee goes to www.americansforthearts.org. With a 100% sustainable organic option served up in a lead-free and child-safe package (which, if you order as a gift, also comes wrapped as a giant LOLLIPOP!), you’ll soon be luv’in Lolly too. Luvmylolly is this weeks Green Giveaway on Hip Moms Go Green. Enter here..
Your kids will love this! Spend some time introducing them to The GREENS’. MeetTheGreens.org is a new kids’ guide to looking after the planet. Kids’ can watch The GREENS’ cartoon adventures and discover related green games, news, downloads, a blog, action tips, links, and much more. This innovative, Web-only project comes from WGBH in Boston, the producer of shows like ZOOM, ARTHUR, Frontline, and NOVA. Have fun!
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