Make 8 of your own natural cleaning products to save money and get green

The following advice will help me: save money? use natural products in my home? eliminate toxins from my life? be green and environmentally conscious? Sold! I wanted to share them with you: .

Press ’1′ for English? Ugh, how inconvenient.

This post is about to be straight rant. You’ve been warned. You’ve seen the t-shirts, the bumper stickers, the chain-Facebook photos: Boo hoo, the world is ending because I have to press the number ‘one’ for an English phone menu. First, how dare you cry over having the privilege of a phone, a budget for [...]

Health, parenting, and social responsibility: Read “10 Bad Eating Habits Parents Often Teach their Kids” by Suzanne Cullen

I found a must-read article about the bad eating habits that parents pass on to their children. It addresses the responsibility of adults to be good influences on children, issues of health, and good daily habits. Suzanne Cullen’s blog at AuPair.org features helpful articles about parenting and being responsible when influencing children. After all, children are our [...]

If you don’t stand against oppression, you stand for it.

“The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.” -Martin Luther King, Jr. When you see prejudice or discrimination happening and you make a decision to benefit from it anyway, you become the problem. If you assist the problem, you condone the injustice. [...]

Did everyone ignore the words in John Mayer’s “Waiting on the World to Change?”

Granted, “Waiting on the World to Change” isn’t a revolutionary song, but John Mayer is commenting on negative aspects of our society. This song is still playing in department stores and convenience stores across America even though it was released in 2006. You’d be hard pressed to find a person that has never heard this song before. [...]

“No.” The most important word in parenting.

Times when “no” can be used: “But Mom, everyone is going to the co-ed sleepover.” NO! “I don’t wanna mow the lawn. Can I play video games?” NO! (And you can do the dishes now, too.) “Dad! It’s just one D!” NO! “But Mommy, I want to run around the restaurant.” NO! “But I hate peas! [...]