Posted by: thoughts4me on: October 29, 2011
This week I came upon a local news story about a doctor who went to area fast food restaurants and video taped and swabbed play areas for germs and bacteria. Now, I expect a reasonable amount of germs and perhaps food in the playareas, however what she found was horrendous!!! Feces, moldy food, areas that [...]
Posted by: thoughts4me on: September 20, 2011
I know I promised a while back to try the Bountiful Baskets organic basket and I finally got around to it! Just in case you are not familiar with Bountiful Baskets, here is a brief intro: Bountiful Baskets tries to provide local grown produce to participants at a low cost. Since they strive for local [...]
Posted by: thoughts4me on: July 8, 2011
I just read an article this morning about scary food additives via Yahoo, and although most are chemicals that are difficult to pronounce, and I will be making a list until I learn to look out for these additives, the one additive that I forgot about was Butylated Hydroxyanisole (BHA) and Butylated Hydroxytoluene (BHT). I remember [...]
Posted by: thoughts4me on: July 7, 2011
It is a sad, sad day for all of us parents when the government has to actually pass a law to ensure missing children are reported missing by their parents or caregivers within a reasonable amount of time. At this rate, the government will be looking into making people get licenses before having kids at [...]
Posted by: thoughts4me on: June 20, 2011
I was watching an episode of “The Talk” and they were discussing kids’ birthday parties. Now, granted these moms are celebrities, but it was good to hear that they think about the impact of the big birthday bash on their kids and ask the question “who is this really for?” One mom acknowledged that her [...]
Posted by: thoughts4me on: June 5, 2011
I’ve always been a label reader. I like to know what is in the drinks and food I buy, whenever possible, or what kind of fabric my clothes are made from…it’s even nice to know where things I buy are made. I’ve become more of a label reader now that I have kids and am [...]
Posted by: thoughts4me on: May 11, 2011
First of all let me say that I am a HUGE chocoloate lover and I am not a believer in “fake” sugar (ie Splenda, aspartame, Truvia, etc). I believe that people just need to eat/use less sugar/sweeteners. However, I have always found chocolate milk to be too sweet for me. I just read an article [...]
Posted by: thoughts4me on: February 16, 2011
Oh the lovely world of potty training! So I have two boys, 5 and 3. My 5 year old is completely potty trained (yay!) and my 3 year old is 99% there. He still has the occasional accident and cannot go through the night without a pull-up…although he refuses, but for all intensive purposes, he [...]
Posted by: thoughts4me on: November 3, 2010
As much as I agree with the intention and spirit of the San Francisco Happy Meal ban, I cannot help but wonder we have gone too far? As a parent, I make the choices for my child when it comes to meals (or most of them anyway). I ensure there is at least one fruit and/or [...]
Posted by: thoughts4me on: October 5, 2010
My, now, 5 year old son is doing it again….meltdown city. We went through the whole tantrum throwing, meltdown in public, stage when he was about 3 years old and here we are again. Now, I don’t have all the answers on how to avoid this “stage” all together but I’m hoping that some of [...]
