by Stacey
If toxic paint wasn’t enough of a reason to boycott toys made in China, an article in today’s NY Times says that hundreds and maybe thousands of children in China have been sold to work as slave laborers in booming coastal factory cities.
Authorities in southern Guangdong Province, near Hong Kong, said they had already […]

by Stacey
I hate the amount of mail that comes into my house everyday. It creates clutter and most of it ends up in the recycling bin. Catalogs are some of the worst offenders. Why does my family need two catalogs from Pottery Barn? Two from Restoration Hardware? And two from L.L. Bean? I don’t even […]

by Stacey
This weekend we hosted a combined birthday party for my two kids: Sage who is turning four in a few days and Sascha who will be one in a couple of weeks. Needless to say December is going to be nuts for us for the forseeable future. Basically a giant whirlwind of presents, […]

by Stacey
Tests on more than 1,200 toys found that 35 percent contain lead, many with levels far above the federal recall standard. According to this AP story, most of the toys are still on store shelves.
The testing was conducted by groups concerned with health and the environment, including, the Michigan-based Ecology Center and the National […]

by Stacey
My Fussbucket partner Kristin recently watched Al Gore’s movie on global warming called “An Inconvenient Truth.” Since then this whole business about the frightening state of the environment has been bugging her. Makes me think they were on to something with the title of the movie.
She’s decided she wants to start a Green Parenting […]

by Stacey
In the wake of this week’s toxic toys recall, parents are now faced with the daunting task of taking away beloved toys from their children. An article in yesterday’s Washington Post talks about just how hard this can be.
Colin Kriebel’s summer has been a really cruddy inverse of Christmas. First, in June, the 3-year-old’s […]

by Stacey
With all these recent recalls many of us have been wondering, who can you trust? I’ve asked it here and so have others. But now I’m wondering if we’re asking ourselves the wrong question. Maybe we need to be wondering, “Do I really need to be buying all this crap?”
I started thinking about this […]