Close Topic Options

Green Parenting?

Green Parenting?

But parents are going green. Around the nation and here in Utah, more moms and dads are looking to things such as recycling, energy conservation and waste reduction as ways to protect the planet, improve their health and save cash. They're also buying organic, building with recycled and reclaimed materials, shopping with reusable bags instead of plastic, and being ultraconscious of how chemicals can affect their families.
Ref. https://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,695272510,00.html

Parenting Green

Yes I recently heard about plastic bottles that are used to feed babies has some harmful stuff in them that can be passed to the child. I believe any plastic bottle that has a "7" on it in the recycling code. I guess it has a harmful substance in the plastic that can be passed to the baby.

I think going green is the way to go if you want to save money on diapers itself. If you reuse cloth diapers you can save a lot in the cost of disposables. They say the average baby goes through 2-3 thousand disposables diapers by the time they are potty trained. That is a lot of money saved if using cloth.

Green Parenting? Reviews Consumer & Travel Family Culture

Uhm I am not rocket scientist but she had to buy the Borax and it is a chemical ?

I think I still have my moms recipe she used growing up Lye soap. My parent made it for years goring up works great removes skin dirt hair all in one foul swoop. Please do use the scrub brush also as it lasts longer and pollutes less then a wash cloth that you did not make from wool your self.

I just find it so funny that we are trying to live the way my parents grew up and my grandparents lived their whole lives. But yet we do not wish to endure the hardships that required to actually accomplish it.

That is hanging out laundry in zub zero weather, scrubbing by hand, using wood ash to clean stoves and pushing the muscles to do it. I jut have to laugh, I produce little waste in my home and if stores would start to packaging they way they did years ago most of that waste would be gone also. But alas it is the almighty profit margin that continue to push the garbage into our homes. Worried about oil prices do not buy meat wrapped in plastic! Yes simple things like this people refuse to believe or do not wish to inconvenience the pocket book by buying at a butcher or cutting their own meat.

Oh for the non believers on that womens little soap experiment done in blindness I hope her hubby reads this quote.

Polluted testes and then you question why your child is born with health issues....does make one think.

Parenting Green

Yes I have found that I am going a bit more greener too. I no longer use plastic sack/bag what ever you call them when shopping. I have reusable bags I carry my food home in. I go to the meat counter and have them wrap my meat in the paper only. I want as little as possible the amount of plastic products in my home. I grew up on a farm where we had to go out in the summer and cut down trees and split the wood if we wanted heat in the winter. I think if people want to go back to a simpler way of life many are not going to be able to handle it.

Parenting Green

KNtoran you bet most would not make it. Two reasons one is too lazy and would cry not enough me me me time. The second and most likely the bigger issue they just would not know how....The basic life skills have been converted to how to dial a phone or fix black magic boxes. Great skill involved but poor knowledge in basic survival.