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Engaging & Creative Games and Toys Kids and Parents Will Love

by Dawn Lorenz 1 Comment

Creative Gifts For Kids

My favorite things to play with when I was growing up were my mother’s old clothes that we kept in our dress up bin and wooden blocks. I used my imagination with both and played for hours on end. Life isn’t so simple anymore. Somehow, neither is play. Kids are surrounded by so much stuff…

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Filed Under: Chemicals in Toys, Eliminating Toxins in the Home, Our Natural Kids, Playtime, Toys Tagged With: gift ideas, green toys, natural gifts

Safer Pools and Water Toys

by Dawn Lorenz 19 Comments

After doing research for the post, Clean Toys, Green Toys and Toys Made Close to Home (highlighting chemicals in toys, what to watch for and what to avoid, and safe options), I have become so much more aware of what my kids are playing in/with/on. Now that it’s summer, I thought I’d revisit the safe option…

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Filed Under: Chemicals in Toys, Our Natural Kids, Toxins in and around the Home Tagged With: Family, pool, toys

Safe Bath/Water Toys for Fun Play

by Dawn Lorenz 4 Comments

Independent testing shows that toys sold on the shelves across America contain toxins such as lead, BPA, cadmium, PVC, phthalates and formaldehyde. I previously discussed the dangers of these toxins, as well as how they are ending up in our children’s toys, in my article, Clean Toys, Green Toys and Toys Made Close to Home….

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Green Toys, Safe Toys and Toys Made Close to Home

by Dawn Lorenz 30 Comments

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(The Truth About What’s in our Children’s Toys & How to Avoid the Dangers) *2017 edit – The 2017 Trouble in Toyland Report ***LATEST INFO – The 2013 Trouble in Toyland Report, an annual U.S. Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) survey of toy safety, is out. Among a load of other findings, according to USA Today, “Among…

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Filed Under: Chemicals in Toys, organic Tagged With: chemicals, Family, green, parenting, toys

New Study Finds that BPA free plastics are still Releasing Harmful Chemicals

by Dawn Lorenz 5 Comments

A new study finds that even those plastic products labeled BPA free are still leeching harmful chemicals.  The findings of this study can be found in the links below, but for a quick recap, most plastic products, BPA free or not, are releasing chemicals that have EA, which stands for estrogenic activity, “In other words,…

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Filed Under: BPA, Chemicals in Toys, the environment around us

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