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Clean Your Shower of Mold And Mildew Without Toxic Chemicals
by editorial team and Sophia Ruan Gushée
Showers can accumulate mildew and mold that can stain the grout and caulk in your shower. Keeping the shower walls clean helps minimize bad odors and staining.
Remember that you...
Parents: Do You Know About the Deep Web?
by editorial team
Most parents worry about their kids and spend countless hours preparing for worst-case scenarios. We try to buy the best car seats, bundle our kids up in snow gear at the first snowflake, and research the...
Advice for Parents About Online Pornography
by editorial team and Sophia Ruan Gushée
With the advent of smartphones, it may seem next to impossible to control what your child sees on the web. While this may be true, there are tools available to help control the sites that your...
Digital Screen Time and Vision Problems
by editorial team
Electronic devices with visual displays are here to stay and feature prominently in kids' daily lives for communication, school work, and entertainment. Overuse of electronic devices of any kind with visual screens can...
How To Get Rid of Mold On A Ceiling
by editorial team and Sophia Ruan Gushée
Mold is common in the home. It's tracked in on shoes and clothes from the outdoors, and enters the home when the windows and doors are open. Most of us can tolerate these amounts of mold....
How to have safe drinking water
I drink filtered tap water as often as I can. Drinking bottled water has seemed not worth the cost, high carbon footprint, and exposure to hormone-disrupting chemicals from the plastic bottles—especially when studies have found that...
Sleep is Crucial For Healthy Kids
by editorial team
The National Sleep Foundation reports that ninety percent of surveyed individuals admitted to using a technology device within an hour of bedtime, and many of these are children. According to the National Sleep Foundation,...
How To Get Rid Of Smelly Carpet Odor The Nontoxic Way
by editorial team
When kids are little and catch the flu, they just want to stay in bed and sleep. That is, until their stomach says otherwise.
The race to the bathroom is a tense moment, hoping kids don't yack all over the...
How to Choose A Non Toxic Baby Crib
by editorial team and Sophia Ruan Gushée
Our toddlers spend about 12-14 hours per day (night time and naps) sleeping in their bed during their first 2 years of life. (1) They use that time to get stronger and grow.
While our...
Tips to Reduce Mold Exposure at Home
Mold, “a fuzzy-looking growth on the surface of organic materials,” appear in different colors: grey, green, yellow, orange or various other colors. (2) If you see fuzzy growths, it might be mold.
Mold may grow in...
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