After four days of commercialism gave way to “Giving Tuesday”, I was left feeling like one day of giving back wasn’t enough. So, for the rest of the month, for every book you buy, we’ll donate one.
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Before I started my packaging research, I had NO IDEA that most of the standard mail packaging cannot be recycled. For example, those padded bubble mailers, even if they are made of paper, cannotgo into your curbside recycling in most cities (Seattle included). Am I the only one who has been happily recycling this stuff?
With the holiday season fast approaching, I made this handy guide to help you sort the trash from the well… recycling… and make smart choices about the packaging you use to wrap and send out all those festive goodies.
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5 tricks to put story time back into your back-to-school routine.
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Children’s books are 1.6 times more likely to feature a male hero than a female one. Awareness about this issue is going but we all know that systemic change is big and slow. Meanwhile our kids are growing up. So, what can we do to help our little ones keep their minds open about gender norms reinforced in their bedtime stories? Here are three ideas to balance the bias in your kids’ bookshelf.
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My almost three-year-old daughter has been romping around our house in a pink plastic firefighter hat recently. In my daily attempt to do something to keep her curls out of her food and finger paints, I suggested she could have “firefighter” hair.
She replied with a giggle, “Mommy, girls are not firemen. That’s silly.”
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