My daughter's birthday is in a few days. (I am still in denial that she will be 2!) Being a Green Mom can be difficult for people trying to get her a gift. Sometimes I feel like it might be easier on people if I just told them not to get her anything. I see and hear their confusion of what they can actually get her.
I have certain things I do not want my child's toys to be. I don't want them to be plastic, painted with toxic paints, or stuffed animals that are treated with chemicals to make them flame resistant.
Is that so hard? YES! It seems as though everything in the stores is something I don't want my daughter to have. Oh wait, almost all of it is. It would be so much easier if the people in charge of regulating what is safe for kids would actually do just that.
For those in the same boat as I am trying to find safe items, I have found some things that work. I love Melissa and Doug products. They are wooden and they use non-toxic paints. They also have an amazing customer service. TreeHaus is another brand of wooden items that I recently found. They are BPA and Phthalates free. One of the items that I LOVE that we got my daughter for her birthday is the Discovery Kids Cardboard House. It is made of recycled paper and comes with a complete house design on the outside to be colored in. For stuffed animals miYim Organic stuffed animals are my favorite.
I know that as my daughter grows older and starts to understand what's available out there I will have to explain to her why we don't have what other kids have. Thankfully her favorite thing in the world are her books and I hope that never changes!
It is difficult, but keeping the chemicals out of my daughter's life is so worth the hassle!
Till next blog.............
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