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15 All-Inclusive Scouting Alternatives To The Boy Scouts of America

15 All-Inclusive Scouting Alternatives To The Boy Scouts of America

Image courtesy of Shutterstock UPDATE: When we originally published this story in February, we reported that The Boy Scouts of America were postponing their vote on whether to allow gay members into their

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Fire Department To Host ‘Squirrel Slam’ Killing Spree As A “Fun” Family Event – Sign A Petition To Protest

Fire Department To Host ‘Squirrel Slam’ Killing Spree As A “Fun” Family Event – Sign A Petition To Protest

Image courtesy of Shutterstock I don’t know about you, but when I was a kid, my idea of having fun with squirrels was to go to the park and feed them. However, times have changed, because now, a

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Bubble Gum Flavored Apples Hit Grocery Store Shelves – Sign A Petition To Stop The Madness

Bubble Gum Flavored Apples Hit Grocery Store Shelves – Sign A Petition To Stop The Madness

Image Courtesy of Shutterstock There’s a new petition on Change.org that you’re really going to want to sign. The petition was started by Leah Segedie, in order to make sure that bubble gum

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Girl Petitions For Hasbro To Make An Easy Bake Oven In A ‘Gender Neutral’ Color For Boys

Girl Petitions For Hasbro To Make An Easy Bake Oven In A ‘Gender Neutral’ Color For Boys

A 13 year-old New Jersey girl, McKenna Pope, recently started a Change.org petition in order to appeal to Hasbro that their popular Easy Bake Oven toy should be more gender-neutral. Pope started the

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4 Million Bumbo Baby Seats Recalled is a Good Reminder to Cut Back on Useless Baby Gear

4 Million Bumbo Baby Seats Recalled is a Good Reminder to Cut Back on Useless Baby Gear

Bumbo just recalled four million of their massively popular baby seats after receiving at least 50 reports of infants falling from the seats, with 19 of those falls resulting in skull fractures.

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Years After Baby Bottle Manufacturers Stop Using BPA the FDA Decides to Officially Ban It

Years After Baby Bottle Manufacturers Stop Using BPA the FDA Decides to Officially Ban It

Baby bottle manufacturers voluntarily haven’t used bisphenol A (BPA) in baby bottles for years. In fact, you’re hard-pressed to find BPA laden baby bottles at all at this point. Apparently,

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Time Magazine Breastfeeding Cover Photo Sparks Major Controversy

Time Magazine Breastfeeding Cover Photo Sparks Major Controversy

Time’s new issue features a cover photo of a mom breastfeeding her 3 year old son. The cover depicts Dr. Bill Sears’ method of attachment parenting for the feature article, “The Man Who

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Is Elisabeth Badinter’s European Best Seller The Conflict Modern Anti-feminism?

Is Elisabeth Badinter’s European Best Seller The Conflict Modern Anti-feminism?

In less than 2 weeks, the controversial European best seller The Conflict: How Modern Motherhood Undermines the Status of Women will be released in the United States. The well known feminist author,

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GREEN RANT: Schools Today Get a Failing Grade for Environmental Education

GREEN RANT: Schools Today Get a Failing Grade for Environmental Education

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How to Protect Your Baby from Cell Phone Radiation Risks During Pregnancy

How to Protect Your Baby from Cell Phone Radiation Risks During Pregnancy

You probably heard the latest scary pregnancy news by now – a new study suggests cell phone radiation during pregnancy may put your child at risk for behavioral disorders like ADHD later. We

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Sh*t Natural Mamas Say Video Sure to Make Green Parents Laugh

Sh*t Natural Mamas Say Video Sure to Make Green Parents Laugh

From Sh*t Yogis Say to Sh*t New Yorkers Say, you’ve probably seen plenty of these hilarious videos fly across your Facebook feed. And now just when you’re getting sick of the wildly popular

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Santa Claus vs. The Buddha: What Am I Teaching My Children?

Santa Claus vs. The Buddha: What Am I Teaching My Children?

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Congress Declares Pizza a Vegetable and Halts Progress to Make School Lunches Healthy

Congress Declares Pizza a Vegetable and Halts Progress to Make School Lunches Healthy

As if we weren’t already annoyed with Washington for it’s unshakable party politics and cozy position with lobbying firms, now Congress has gone and done something unspeakable against the

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10 Ridiculous “Pinkwashed” Products That May Actually Cause Breast Cancer

10 Ridiculous “Pinkwashed” Products That May Actually Cause Breast Cancer

Is “pinkwashing” the new greenwashing? Marketers certainly aren’t shy about using breast-cancer awareness to hawk their cause-related wares each October. We’ve rounded up 10

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Parents Trapped in Cycle of Too Much Stuff and Too Little Time for Kids Says New Unicef Study

Parents Trapped in Cycle of Too Much Stuff and Too Little Time for Kids Says New Unicef Study

It’s very hard to raise green, consumer savvy kids in this increasingly commercial culture. Astoundingly, research shows that kids under 14 years of age spend about $40 billion annually, while teens

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Are Designer Disposable Diapers an Awesome Fad for Babies or Only Good for Huggies Bottom Line?

Are Designer Disposable Diapers an Awesome Fad for Babies or Only Good for Huggies Bottom Line?

This season Huggies is rolling out some designer disposable diapers at Walmart stores nationwide. Parents will be able to diaper their little one’s behind in a limited edition camouflage design or a

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GREEN RANT: Can Childhood Prohibitions Lead to Binge Consumption?

GREEN RANT: Can Childhood Prohibitions Lead to Binge Consumption?

Do guarded green parents inadvertently push their kids toward binge consumption? This is a question I posed to myself while sitting at a homey table in a wood paneled diner, considering my own

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JMPA Says to Quit Being Absurdly Hysterical About BPA!

JMPA Says to Quit Being Absurdly Hysterical About BPA!

According to an indignant newsletter sent out by The Juvenile Products Manufacturers Association (JPMA), we all need to take a step back and quit being overly dramatic about the dangers of chemical

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