babyproofed: Healthy Child, Healthy World

quick and easy ways to make your home healthier for your child

In this series we plan to give you some very easy ways to truly make your home healthier and safer for your child, and yourself really. Babyproofing shouldn’t stop at plug covers and baby gates. There are so many hazards in the average home that many people don’t even consider, so we’re here to help make every house a happy, healthy home for every child. The upcoming installments will focus on specifics that you can easily put in play in your house on a daily basis, but in this first part we want to focus on an amazing organization that can really help get you going with all the information you need to know what’s safe & what’s not. And it’s very important to remember, babyproofing really starts before your baby is even born, in utero exposures to environmental hazards are very real. Protecting yourself from external toxins is also protecting your baby. Everything around us from food to food storage, skin care to cleaning products, in our houses and in our yards can be dangerous to our children, even before they are born.

Healthy Child, Healthy World was founded by Nancy and James Chuda after their daughter Colette’s death from an environmentally- influenced cancer that quite possibly resulted from an exposure by her mother while Colette was still in utero. Their unimaginable loss inspired them to help other parents prevent further tragedies from unnecessary exposure to environmental toxins. The organizations website not only provides an amazing amount of information to help you know how to protect your children, it also aims to give you the tools you need in an easy to implement manner.

Start with the 5 Easy Steps which detail the 5 areas where you can tackle toxins in your home first and have a real impact. Each steps is then broken down further into actionable areas, such as safety checklists, safe solutions and research reports. You can easily work through each section and build a foundation for a happy, healthy home for your children and really your whole household. There is also Erin Brokovitch’s Action Kit, which gives you 10 steps to not just make your home healthier, but to help you take this information further and share it with those around you. Once you’ve started on making your home safer and healthier, why not host a Healthy Home Party to help your friends and family share in your efforts to make their home healthy too? These parties make it easy for you to share the 5 easy steps as well as samples of products from Healthy Child Sponsors. You can hep others find out just how easy it really is to take steps to protect all of our children. Oh, and of course you can always make a donation to help them continue their work to help all of our children.

We all love our children and we all want them to be as happy and healthy as possible.When you take a look at all of the information about toxins and environmental hazards, at first, you might just be shocked how prevalent they are in our daily lives and how close to home. Nobody really likes to think that their clean kitchen could be making their baby, who crawls on that floor and is the reason we want to keep it so clean, could be making their baby sick. It can be scary and overwhelming. Please do visit the Healthy Child site for more information and for an easily digestible way to tackle this enormous subject. We also have the Healthy Child, Healthy World Widget on our site in the sidebar of the Life section to keep you up to date on the latest news from the site. We love Healthy Child, Healthy World for helping all of us make the world safer, right at home, for all of our children. We hope you will too. To see a bit more of why we need Healthy Child and for how they can help you Babyproof your home, please watch the video below and please do visit their site.