‘Tis the Season to Be Sneezin’

Here’s a familiar dilemma: You’ve just finished decorating your house for the holiday visit with your grandchildren, who are flying in from the East Coast, and you get a call from your daughter that both girls have fevers. Do you:

a) Tell them not to come.
b) Postpone the visit until they’re recovered.
c) Keep the plans and get out the Lysol spray. (more…)

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I hate to be the ogre in your Halloween festivities, but this week’s newsletter from The Center for Health, Environment and Justice has a scary Halloween warning: Check the ingredients on the face paint you’re using to transform your kids and grandkids into zombies, witches and other characters. Many face paints contain lead. Those masks made of PVC plastic may also be spreading harmful substances on kids’ vulnerable skin. (more…)

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