How we are trying to help. 

The entries below are based on research for The Paranoid Parents Guide by Christie Barnes.  Individual reference sources are available.  The primary research source is the CDC, whose statistics are considered the most reliable.  

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Are you poisoning your child?  THE CHEMICAL INFILTRATION TEST   Does the lotion and shampoo you rub on to your child really penetrate his whole body?  Try this.

On a day you plan to stay at home with the family, try this experiment that was a great sensation in England, in more ways than one.

Take a tube of that crushed garlic rub it into your feet like lotion, like you would for really dry skin on your feet or what you would smear all over your child's dry skin.  We suggest putting on your Crocs or old socks.

Keep doing the hand breath test (or breath on a family member) and somewhere within 20 minutes you will have absolutely filthy garlic breath.

That garlic is circulating around you entire body, and into your lungs.  

WIth many lotions and shampoos, a chemical cocktail is infiltrating your body and the body of your child.

Only children absorb much more than adults.

On their own, most chemicals are safe but it is impossible to test for all the combinations.

The FDA set healthy limits on how much of chemical additives it would be all right to be exposed to and calculated that most adults would near unacceptable limits in their system.  They thought most adults would start nearing unacceptable limits when the reached their late 40s or 50s.

But it is looking like over half of American's children may be reaching potentially dangerous levels of chemicals in their systems by age 4 1/2.

So we feel that you really need to use the chemical free products.  The chemical cocktail has been shown to give your child symptoms of ADD and ADHD.  Going natural or organic and your child can return to normal.

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SELF ESTEEM - the 100 things you want your kids to do

 We aren't just about physical dangers. When kids become teens they stop deriving their self-esteem and identity from their great accomplishments or sense of self, they derive their self-worth from their 'concept' of their appearance.  They can be straight A students but torment themselves because they think they are too fat, have bad hair, etc.

Only one teen group is exempt from this appearance fixation,  surprisingly, what are in all other ways categorized 'high risk' low income black teen males.  Researchers don't know why.

But that is why we have developed our Self-Esteem Buttons.  Make kids happy by making them happy with themselves.  Starting early can build in that perception to ride them through the hormones and genuinely altered reasoning that happens in the teen years.

It is like 100 (or 300) things you want your kids to do.  You can choose the button for the day with your child, or have it there to reward all those developmental milestones.

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MISLEADING ADVERTISING FOR CHILDREN'S PRODUCTS

"Natural, 100% Fruit" can be the name of a company while their product is full of chemicals (chemicals are so cheap) and 0% Fruit.  This kind of advertising is misleading hurried parents and deceiving children.  

We are setting nutritional guidelines so when you see our Seal of Approval, you will be guarenteed a basic high level of nutrition.  

It isn't diet seal of approval, or a low-calorie seal of approval.  It is a high nutrition seal.  That does mean the food will be lower in fat, salt and sugar.  But we are going for healthy food that will boost the metabolism, get the brain working, give you real nutrients.  The result may be weight-loss but the goal is health.

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DROWNING

Summer is coming and it is a danger time for our little boys.  It is little boys who have the greatest risk of drowning in swimming pools.

Why?  Boys don't scream for help.  They think they will get in trouble or that they aren't being brave.  We need to tell boys it is OK to scream for help.

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 MOLD

When recently purchasing a house, I had it checked for mold.  The company who tested didn't call me with a result so I finally tracked down the man who did the test.  He said the house was mold-free.  I said I wanted the results of the test.  He refused to send them.

I called his boss and said my lawyer was sending a demand letter to say they were liable for any mold clean-up if they did not send the test.  The immediately sent over the test which said my new potential house had off-the-charts HIGH levels of the worst kinds of toxic mold.  

But the house didn't even smell moldy--which it would of with these levels of mold.  

So the realtor and I hired another mold inspector, who said that the mold samples had to be from the wrong house.  He cleared suitcases out of the room we thought had the mold, and he performed tests all around the house.

Lower mold levels--BUT the inspector had touched the moldy suitcases and so he was carrying the mold around the house and getting high readings in the bedrooms off his clothes.

So we had to test again.  But the lab lost the test, found the tests, didn't have time to do the tests to me the house contract objection deadline, put the test in a Fed Ex packet to send to a lab in California, forgot to send the Fed Ex, lost the tests again, found them and finally rushed through the tests.  

The results were a little mold in the sump pump, which I have had replaced, cleaned and sealed.

Obviously, our first 'expert' mixed up mold tests so there is a house out there that someone bought that got my house's low level results, thinking it was mold free, that is really a very dangerous house.

Many families are spending $50,000 a year to have their homes checked for contamination and cleaned.  Make sure that the experts do know what they are doing.   

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