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How to Make Homemade Baby Wipes

10/31/2013

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Baby wipes are expensive. And babies require a lot of diaper changes (some of which, take a half a dozen wet wipes to clean up after!) Most of the time, they're small so it takes several to get a job done. Sometimes they're too harsh for the face or even the bottom. A few ingredients and some good paper towel can help you make wipes that are customised for scent / skin sensitivity issues and can save you a lot of money as well. The wet wipes you can make from the directions in this hub are soft, smell great, save you money, and stay wet for a long time if left sealed.


Read on for a basic baby wipes recipe that you can customize and that you'll probably use until your baby is in kindergarten for wiping hands, faces, and bottoms.

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Baby Wipes Recipe
The ingredients you'll need for homemade wipes are:
  • Bounty Paper Towel
  • A container with a lid
  • A sharp knife
  • Hot water
  • Mixing bowl
  • Baby oil
  • Baby wash
  • Baby lotion
Prep the baby wipes
Use one measured cup of boiling (or very hot) water and add:
  • about an eighth of baby oil and the same amount of: 
  • your favourite baby lotion, 
  • and liquid baby soap/ baby wash
Mix well.
  1. Cut Bounty paper towel roll in 1/2 and remove cardboard roll from the centre.
  2. Insert paper towel roll into your container and pour the mixed liquid.
  3. Seal with a lid and leave about 24 hours (otherwise it's too oily and wipes will be too hot)
These baby wipes are great for frugal parenting. They're large and can be used on the face and hands and work great for cleaning your own hands after a diaper change.


 

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The Many Uses for Baby Oil

10/31/2013

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Well not quite 101 but there are many uses for baby oil, inexpensive and versatile product:

It’s cheap and contains very few additives and some brands come enhanced with extra vitamins or aloe.

  • If you put a few drops in your ears, you can remove wax-build up without prodding your ear canal.
  • Warm it up if you’ve got really waxy, plugged up ears.
  • Put a little on a cotton ball to help remove eye make-up.
  • Put some in your bath to soften yours or your babies skin . Mixing it with a touch of your favorite bubble bath will create a lovely bathwash.
  • Use after shaving your legs to soften your skin and prevent razor burn
  • Use on your babies scalp to treat and prevent cradle cap
  • Use on cracked or dry heals and put socks on to hold in the moisture
  • Smooth on a pregnant tummy to reduce the chances of stretch marks
  • Use in homemade baby wipes (2 tbsps of baby oil, 2tbsps of baby lotion, 1 tbsp of bathwash and 3/4 cup of hot water poured over Bounty paper towels and put in a sealed container) Get the homemade baby wipes recipe here.
  • Use a small amount to bring out the sheen in your wooden furniture
  • Massage a little on your cuticles before your manicure or pedicure
  • Using before going in the sun can increase your likelihood of sunburn or suntan (beware of uva/uvb rays. This is not endorsed behaviour!)
  • Some say baby oil makes a good personal lubricant but others disagree (it can damage prophylactics)
  • Great and inexpensive massage oil
  • Great lubricant for noisy door hinges!
  • Gets rid of temporary tattoos in a snap.

Tags: baby oil, baby oil uses, ear wax removal, homemade baby wipes, massage oil,temporary tattoo removal

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FAQ

8/11/2013

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Informing and educating our  Baby Shop customers is very important!  With the expansion of the green market and new products being advertised every day, we are bombarded with choices. We think you should know all the facts in order to make informed consumer decisions. If your question is not aswered below, please call us  email info@kindynews.com. 


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Questions:

Q: Is it really worth worrying about what ingredients are in your baby wipes and other baby products?

Q: What does “renewable and sustainable” mean?

Q: Is your packaging biodegradable and/or recyclable?

Q: Are your baby wipes flushable?

Q: Are your baby wipes and bathroom tissue a bio-based material?

Q: Are KindyNews Bamboo Wipes compostable?

Q: Are KindyNews Bamboo Liners and Wipes septic-safe?

Q: Do you test on animals?

Q: How do I find out where KindyNews' Bamboo products' trees are being planted?

Q: Will bamboo production put Panda bears at more risk?

Q: Why did you choose bamboo for your products?

Q: Why do you import your bathroom tissue from China?

Q: Do you have other ideas for bamboo products?

Q. What does KindyNews Eco Baby Shop do to be a “green business”?

Q: Does KindyNews want me to review the products?

Answers:


Q: Is it really worth worrying about what ingredients are in your baby wipes and other baby products?

A: Yes!. We support the reduction of harsh chemicals and preservatives in skin care. It is not only better for you and your family, but it is healthier for the earth. Whatever you put on skin is likely to be absorbed into the blood stream with the potential to cause damage over time. Whatever is thrown into the landfill or flushed down your toilet has the potential to accumulate and contaminate water supplies and oceans which can then become concentrated in the food chain.

Manufacturers have taken the easy way out for years by using cheap ingredients to turn a bigger profit and harsh preservatives to ensure a product’s shelf life throughout an increasingly growing supply chain. There is good news though: Consumers like you have been educating themselves and voting for safer and higher quality products with their dollars. The more consumers show their concern by buying safer and more natural products, the more common it will become to see ingredients lists with safer ingredients.

In our case, KindyNews Eco Baby Shop began after communicating with Moms who found a need in the market for safer baby products. When we set out to create them, we insisted that they be made with certain gentler ingredients.  We are fortunate to have found and work with suppliers that listened to our concerns and helped us create our vision.

Navigating the enormous terrain of chemical names is not easy for the average person.  Furthermore, just because you have trouble pronouncing an ingredient, does not mean it is dangerous. A Washington-based organization called Skin Deephas made it easy to calculate your risk of exposure to potentially harmful substances through the personal care products you use for yourself or your baby. Their rating system offers a means of quantifying the risks posed. KindyNews has voluntarily signed their Compact for Safe Cosmetics, and in doing so we have pledged to not only make our products safe, but to provide transparency to consumers. We also submitted laboratory testing results that show that our baby wipes do not contain dioxane 1, 4, formaldehyde, chlorine, or BPAs (bisphenol a). Check them out at: www.safecosmetics.org

Click here to read about some common ingredients you may see in skin care products that may be cause for concern. We recommend avoiding them and we choose never use them in our products, as we believe that there are many safe and natural alternatives. We also recommend that when we consider laboratory studies to always ask how a study was performed (did they use high quantities? Was it performed on an animal? In a petrie dish? Who was funding the study? How many studies have there been and what did they conclude?.

Q: What does “renewable and sustainable” mean?

A. Renewability refers to a plant that has a short regeneration period to full maturation, usually in stark contrast to the material they are replacing. Sustainability refers to resources being replenished at a fast enough rate at which they can be used for consumption. Bamboo is a quintessential renewable and sustainable plant due to the fact that it grows back so quickly and naturally. Furthermore, it is a regenerating plant, which means it does not have to be replanted. This saves on petrol-guzzling tractors.

Q: Is your packaging biodegradable and/or recyclable?

A: Unfortunately the packaging for the baby wipes is not currently biodegradable. In an effort to be as environmentally responsible as possible.

Q: Are your baby wipes flushable?

A: Most people are not aware, but there are currently no federal regulations regarding this marketing claim.  In the US, the INDA, the Association for Non Woven Fabrics Industry offers guidelines to determine flushability, but it seems that even the experts are conflicted as to whether any company should be advertising wet wipes as flushable. We have a strong opinion about flushability – We do not encourage anyone to flush anything that doesn’t start to break down like toilet paper in the bowl. Read our detailed opinion and research by clicking the link below.

More Flushability Info: Click Here

Q: Are your baby wipes and bathroom tissue a bio-based material?

A. Yes, these products are made from bio-based bamboo material. So far, we have certified our bamboo baby wipes in the USDA Bioprefered program. We will eventually complete the certification process for our bathroom tissue, as well. The USDA defines bio-based products as those whose main ingredients are from renewable plant, animal, marine, or forestry materials.  Get more info at  www.biopreferred.gov

Q: Are KindyNews Bamboo Wipes compostable?

A: Composting turns degradable materials into useable compost-humus-like material that enriches the soil and returns nutrients to the earth. KindyNews Bamboo Wipes have early on been deemed as compostable in industrial or municipal facilities as opposed to home composting units that do not generate high enough temperature to safely break down human waste. These claims were based on our independent results and by our customers who use well managed facilities with high temperatures.  However, the FTC recently set requirements for compostability certification testing that is a financial burden for many small business like ours. We will keep you updated on our progress with our certification tests. In the meantime, we cannot make claims that they are compostable at industrial or municipal facilities.


Q: Do you test on animals?

A: We have never, nor will we ever test on animals. Furthermore, all of our suppliers must provide documentation stating to the same.  We are certified by Leaping Bunny which is a program providing the best assurance that no new animal testing is used in any phase of product development by the company, its laboratories, or suppliers.

Q: How do I find out where KindyNews Bamboo products trees are being planted?

A: Currently KindyNews plants trees for each individual package of baby wipes, each individual diaper rash ointment, and for every 4 rolls of bathroom tissue sold. Our trees are being planted annually in a variety of locations where deforestation has had a major impact. We feel that regions that have suffered tremendous losses due to deforestation are the best place to start. To date we have planted over 47,000 trees in Brazil, Ghana, Burundi and Haiti. We have chosen to plant in these countries for two reasons: rainforest depletion is as high as 90% due to things like widespread logging in the past and overgrazing. And in Burundi, where 57% of children under 5 suffer from chronic malnutrition, we are planting Moringa, “the miracle tree” which boasts twice the calcium as milk and four times as much Vitamin A as in carrots.

If you would like to plant trees in other regions around the globe, please visit Trees for the Future to learn about their many programs.

Q: Will bamboo production put Panda bears at more risk?

A: NO. The species’ of plant used for processing fiber is a different variety than the ones Pandas consume. Its Latin name is Phyllostachys heterocycla pubescens, but is commonly known as Moso bamboo. Deforestation, agricultural encroachment and road-building remain the biggest threats to Panda habitat.

Q: Why did you choose bamboo for your products?

A: Because it’s the best, environmentally-preferable solution for disposable products! We invite you to read our Bamboo page for detailed information about bamboo. Below are the highlights of why we chose it for our products:

  • Regenerated cellulose fiber made from bamboo is a bio-based material;
  • Bamboo is the fastest growing grass on the planet and can shoot up a yard or more a day making it an endurable natural resource. Bamboo is ready for harvesting in 2-4 years (as opposed to 30+ years for trees);
  • Bamboo does not require replanting after harvesting because of its vast root network;
  • Bamboo crops do not require significant amounts of water, in fact, rain water is usually sufficient for growth;
  • Bamboo generates 35% more oxygen than an equivalent stand of trees;
  • Replacing disposables with bamboo material can have a major effect on the rate of deforestation of hardwood forests;
  • Regenerated-cellulose fiber from bamboo is very soft.



Q: Why do you import your bathroom tissue from China?


A: When we launched the KindyNews EcoBaby Shop, with our first product (bamboo baby liners) there were no Australian suppliers actually willing to supply us with the low quantity we were able to purchase, so we started in China. It is our goal to eventually have our liners manufactured in the Australia. Until then, our products are supplied by a highly reputable manufacturer that complies with environmental standards and fair labour practices in China. 

Q: Do you have other ideas for bamboo products?

A: Yes, we do!  We are constantly researching the possibilities of additional products. Since our goal is to only make the very best, most natural products, we will  continue to develop our product line conscientiously. To learn about upcoming products, sign up for our email newsletter.

Q: Are the baby wipes and liners quality-controlled?

A: Our baby wipes and liners are made at FDA certified facilities where quality control is strictly maintained.  We have also had our baby wipes and bathroom tissue tested at an independent laboratory to demonstrate the absence of formaldehyde, dioxane 1, 4, chlorine, and Bisphenol A’s.

Q: What does KindyNews do to be a “green business”?

A: We try to make as many aspects of our company as environmentally-friendly as possible. Below are some of the ways that we have incorporated these ideals into our business model:

  • We plant trees with Trees for the Future for every individual item sold to help stop and reverse deforestation;
  • We offset 35 tons of carbon emissions annually by purchasing carbon credits through CarbonFund.org;
  • Two out of three of our manufacturing facilities are operating on 100% renewable energy;
  • We ship in recycled and/or reclaimed boxes whenever possible;
  • We reclaim paper and other office supplies to keep them out of the landfill;
  • We use environmentally-conscious office practices and supplies;
  • We maintain paper-free records as much as possible;
  • We carpool whenever possible;
  • We operate as much of the business as possible from home offices to reduce travel;
  • We make efforts to reclaim our packaging for alternative reuse;
  • We aim to educate consumers about environmentally-responsible options and choices;
  • Because of our efforts to protect the environment, we are very proud to have been certified as a B Corp. Please learn about B Corps  http://bcorporation.net/
          This is just a sample of some of our efforts. We are always open to new ideas on how we can improve.

Q: Does KindyNews EcoBaby Shop want me to review the products?

A: If you are interested in reviewing Bum Boosa® products on your blog or website or other venue, please complete the information form on the Contact Us tab. Unfortunately we are unable to honour all requests for product reviews. To improve the chances of approval, please show that you have a minimum of 1,000 active followers, are very active (and have a solid following) on social media sites, and are willing to link back to our site. Thank you for your interest in our products!


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So Now We are Fat Shaming our Kids? How Rediculous!

3/5/2013

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By Kasey Edwards
It's been a bad week for picking on kids - especially overweight ones.

First came a repulsive fat-shaming video on 'Slate' called Dear Prudence: A girl with an endless appetite. In response to a letter from a "concerned" mother about the eating habits of her daughter's friend, agony aunt Prudie thought it would be helpful - funny even - to portray the little girl in question as a pig and her parents as tubs of lard.

Next came news out of the US of children being given homework assignments in which they were to circle the fat people in a picture. Another school weighs its students and has them taking letters home to parents with their BMI score.

The crowning glory of kiddy fat shaming, though, was Australia 'Biggest Loser's' paid advertorial on 'Mamamia', where Jo Abi advocates putting kids on diets, and where the show promises to focus on children more in this year's show. 

And let's not have any guff about 'The Biggest Loser' being "inspirational" or about health. It exists for one thing, and one thing only: to increase network ratings, often at the expense of the contestants' health.

The show has been slammed by health professionals and contestants alike, with the 'Sydney Morning Herald' reporting horror stories of trainers suggesting contestants stop drinking for up to 36 hours before being weighed, and celebrating dangerous and unrealistic weight-loss goals of up to 17 kilograms in one week.

Former contestant John Jeffery quit the show in 2008 because he feared someone would die. He wasn't being over-dramatic either. As it is, several contestants have been hospitalised for dehydration and Dr Jenny O'Dea, Associate Professor of Health and Nutrition Education at the University of Sydney, has warned against some of its practices, such as making morbidly obese people run 10 kilometres in the summer heat.


"Dehydration combined with heat exhaustion will kill you," Dr O'Dea said.

Add to this the psychological damage of being humiliated and bullied in front of an entire nation (why else do contestants have to strip off for weigh-ins, other than for us to be collectively appalled and amused by their bodies?) - and the very real possibility of contestants regaining the weight, and the associated shame. One contestant even blames 'The Biggest Loser' for triggering an eating disorder.

It's bad enough that we fat-shame adults for our entertainment, whilst pretending to be "concerned", but setting our fat-phobic sights on children is indefensible.

'The Biggest Loser's' fat-shaming-kiddies ratings bonanza is being promoted as a way to stop bullying. And hey, I understand that nobody wants their children to suffer. I also get that we live in a society where the parents of fat children are considered to be negligent.

But passing on our own food and body anxieties, and getting in first with the bullying by forcing children into diets and extreme exercise regimes isn't the solution.

Anyone who has ever tried to stick to a diet knows that the deprivation is soul-destroying and the self-restraint is all but impossible to maintain. When adults can't stick to calorie-restriction diets, how on earth do we expect children to?

Actress and comedian Arabella Weir explains in 'Does My Bum Look Big In This?' that denying children food is the fastest way to turn them into compulsive closet eaters with a terrible self-esteem.

"My parents believed they were helping me by pointing out to me that I ought not to waltz through life thinking it was ok to be me. They thought they were warning me of the pitfalls," writes Weir. "As I was, I wasn't good enough. I must learn denial in order to reach a better me, and one more pleasing to my parents. The only trouble was that that's quite a tall, if not unreachable, order for a child."

The idea of a child going hungry is barbaric. It's also totally unnecessary. If we weren't all so caught up on the aesthetics of our children's bodies rather than their health, we would never even consider it, let alone put it on prime-time TV.

Despite what the advertising industry and a whole stream of self-appointed TV "experts" tell us, skinny and healthy are not the same thing. We should not be aspiring to raise "skinny" children; surely our job is to raise "healthy" children.

If we encourage our kids to be active, to play outside and to eat healthy food because it's good for their growing bodies, bones and brains, and not because they need to hit some arbitrary figure on a weight chart, then we have done our job.

More than ever, we need to be teaching our children that the goal should be the process of living a health life and not the outcome of meeting a commercially-driven standard of beauty.

Once children internalise that their BMI is a measure of their goodness and self-worth, then we have set them up for a lifetime of failure and self-contempt. We have taught them that they should trust some arbitrary external measure rather than their bodies and their own judgment. And we have taught them that our love is conditional; that we will we be happier, prouder and more loving if they become something other than what they are.

What children need to hear from their parents, more than anything, is that we pick their team, and not team 'Biggest Loser'.

- Kasey Edwards is the best-selling author of four books, '30-Something and Over It', '30-Something and The Clock is Ticking', 'OMG! That's Not My Husband', and 'OMG! That's Not My Child'. www.kaseyedwards.com



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"Despite what the advertising industry and a whole stream of self-appointed TV "experts" tell us, skinny and healthy are not the same thing. We should not be aspiring to raise "skinny" children; surely our job is to raise "healthy" children"

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Video Games May Help Dyslexic Kids: Study

3/5/2013

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Playing action video games may improve reading in children with dyslexia, Italian researchers have found.

The small study, published online last week in Current Biology, involved two groups of 10 dyslexic children. One group played action video games for nine sessions of 80 minutes each, while the other followed the same routine with non-action games. The researchers bought the games in retail stores and have no financial interest in any video game company.

Age, I.Q., reading speed, error rates and phonological skills were similar in the two groups at the beginning of the study. The researchers measured the attention and reading skills of the children before and after the game sessions and then compared them.

Those trained on the action games scored significantly higher than those who played the nonaction games by various measures: combined speed and accuracy, recognizing pseudo-words made of random letters, and reaction time. The action game players also scored higher on tests that measured attention by inserting distractions as the children tried to accomplish various visual and auditory tasks.

“The correlation between attention improvement and reading improvement was very high,” said the co-first author of the study, Simone Gori, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Padua. “The change in attentional abilities translates into better reading ability.”

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A small study done in Italy is suggesting video games may help improve the reading skills of kids with dyslexia. What do you think?

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Which Nappy Inserts are Better: Bamboo or Microfibre? 

2/7/2013

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"I make my own cloth nappies inserts and if I make them with microfibre, hemp and bamboo ( 3 layers 1 layer of each) they last a long time as the microfibre and bamboo draws the moisture away fast and the hemp holds the moisture better. ... if I had to choose either bamboo or hemp, I would go for the bamboo as it seems to be more durable" 

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FIVE Good Reasons Why Sugary Drinks Should be BANNED!

2/7/2013

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Talk of a “sugar tax” in the US and New York's decision next month to ban sugary drinks in restaurants and theatres to young children has people  abuzz about whether it’s an American thing to financially punish people for drinking soda or not. I say go ahead and tax soda, and here are five good reasons why:

1. Soda is one more cause of the climate crisis. We have exported our carbon dioxide addiction all around the world. Just think of the costs in fuel to ship it—and the emissions produced. Maybe if we stop drinking so much of it, the appeal of American sodas will decline elsewhere. And at least in most other countries, the local soda is still made with real sugar!

2. Yeah, yeah, yeah…high-fructose corn syrup. HFCS is only cheaper than sugar because our government subsidizes the toxic, poisonous farming of corn in order to keep chemical companies (and maybe big tractor companies, too) in business. Plus, studies have shown that high-fructose corn syrup has mercury in it. So all those moms who think (incorrectly) that mercury in vaccines causes autism had better not be giving their kids soda!

3. Diet soda causes people to make poor decisions. According to a recent study, people who drink diet sodas think they are getting some energy, but their bodies still feel starved, so they kick into famine mode. Which basically means that the future doesn’t matter, all that matters is getting a next dose of fuel—hence, impulsive, short-term thinking. Amazing.

4. Soda isn’t really thirst quenching anyway. Did you ever really, really pay attention to how your mouth feels when you drink a soda? All that sugar kind of sucks out the liquids from your mouth and leaves a taste that is so icky you have to eat something to get rid of it. So not only are you getting empty calories from your drink, but you are urged to snack, too.


5. Fountain soda has fecal matter in it! It’s been a bad couple of weeks for soda in the news. Another study just this past week found that more than 40 percent of all fountain sodas have traces of fecal matter germs in them. It’s not in the ice, it’s in the soda itself. This was highly disappointing to me personally, since when I do have soda, I really like to have fountain soda with lots of ice in it to water it down and make it somewhat more thirst quenching. Now even that is off limits to me. I look at that cup of Coke with a lid and a straw and think, fecal matter? No thanks.

The only time I really bring soda into my house is when we are sick. There is nothing quite like a real coke or ginger ale to soothe an aching stomach. It’s medicine, really, and frankly, I think it should be treated as such. Think of all the plastic bottles, sugar, and toxic GMO corn we can keep out of the waste stream (and our bodies) if we stop drinking soda routinely.

Thirsty? Buy bottled water instead. YES, bottled water. It’s thirst quenching, has zero calories, and is damn good for you. Of course, you can fill your reusable water bottle with local tap water for free, instead of paying too much for water that’s been shipped and is probably municipal water anyway. And you should. But if you are at a gas station and need something to drink, pass over the soda and don’t feel guilty if a cold bottle of water hits the spot. (Just recycle that bottle.)

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Useful Websites for Mums and Dads

1/22/2013

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Here's a useful go-to list for your to help you navigate new parenthood! Please send us links to other interesting - and valuable - information sites which you would like to recommend to other parents. 
Nutrition Information - http://www.healthy-kids.com.au/nutrition

Boutique Baby and Children’s Markets - http://www.thebutterflytree.com.au/index.html

Behaviour Management Information - http://www.parentingideas.org/articles/discipline/101-tips-for-improving-childrens-behaviour/

National Childcare Accreditation Council - http://www.ncac.gov.au/

Safe Sleeping - http://www.sidsandkids.org/safe-sleeping/

Free Dental Services - http://www.health.qld.gov.au/oralhealth/services/school.asp

Gold Coast Immunisation Information - http://www.goldcoast.qld.gov.au/t_standard2.aspx?PID=46

Kids Safe House - http://www.kidsafeqld.com.au/

Free Dental Health Services- http://www.health.qld.gov.au/oralhealth/services/school.asp

Dental Information - http://www.colgate.com/app/Kids-World/US/HomePage.cvsp

Staying Healthy In Childcare -http://www.decs.sa.gov.au/speced2/files/pages/chess/hsp/Pathways/Staying_healthy_in_child_c.pdf

Sun Safe Information -http://www.cancerqld.org.au/page/information_resources/resources_and_brochures/sunsmart_resources/

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Top 8 Positive Parenting Tips from an Ex-Teacher

12/18/2012

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By Melissa Cleaver
Before I ever became a mom, I was a teacher. While I don't claim to be a perfect teacher or a perfect mommy, I do believe that I relate to children quite well, thanks in part to my time spent "in the trenches." Those six precious years of forging relationships, offering guidance, and teaching science to 150 students each year taught me several things which have also served me well as a parent. Here are the eight most important.

1. Go Your Own Way
When you feel the need to discipline, be sure that this urge is coming from a bona fide need to do what's right and not from a knee jerk reaction to do things that were done to you as a child. This is how unhealthy cycles repeat themselves. Go your own way and always do What's in the best interest of your children.


2. For Every Negative, Find 10 Positives
We probably don't remember it, but it can be very hard to be young. Everything is new and must be learned from scratch. Sure, children will need to be corrected. But for the sake of your child's self-esteem and the harmony of your home, be sure to compliment them many more times on what they do right than correct them on what they've done wrong.

Examples: 

You brushed your hair very well today and it looks fabulous.

I love how you set the table without even being asked.

That's very sweet of you to draw me a picture today at school. I love it!

"For the sake of your child's self-esteem and the harmony of your home, be sure to compliment them many more times on what they do right than correct them on what they've done wrong"

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3. The Connection Makes the Difference
The reason that I was able to get through to even the most difficult student (as well as my fiery toddler when she's upset) is because I take the time every day to forge that relationship with them. Spend at least ten minutes each day tuning everything else out but your child and then shower her with love and attention. Your connection will be strong and her responsiveness to your requests will be greater.

Remember that favorite teacher you never wanted to disappoint? Well, it's time to start sprinkling some of that flavor onto your parent/child relationship. The great thing is it works both ways.

4. Child Acting Out? Put Your Ears On!
Remember, children are new to this great big world and they don't always know how to deal with the situations and emotions contained within. When your child starts to inexplicably act out, remember that she needs you more than ever. Start listening, really listening to her and help her express what she's feeling. After the emotions have subsided a bit, you can then try to come up with and explain an acceptable way to channel that emotion or feeling for when it happens again.

5. Be the Rock

No I don't mean the wrestler, I mean create safety and calm for your child. You don't want your child to be afraid of you or label you as someone who flies off the handle. If your child can safely come to you and share their hopes, dreams, fears and everything in between, you will be able to help guide and steer her through rough times. If you appear unavailable or scary, your child will lean on someone else instead.

6. Don't Be a Broken Record
I had a mom who nagged, and frankly, I hated it. I quickly taught myself how to tune her out and during my teen years, we didn't seem to like each other very much. For recurring problems which make us feel like we are saying the same things over and over again, find a more creative solution. If you're repeating yourself time and time again, your children have stopped listening by now anyway.

Examples: 

If she has a messy room, try giving her some organizational tools to help clean it up easily.

If she has a messy closet and has cleaned it up recently, hang a world's cleanest closet sign on their closet door. How can you go back to being messy with that hanging there?

If your children are always forgetting to do their homework, make a standard family "table time" where common chores like homework, paying bills, and making grocery lists, are all done together.

7.  Give Your Child the Power
Children need to learn from a very young age the concept of cause and effect. Instead of them thinking that you are making every decision for them and that you are punishing them, they need to realize that the decisions are actually their own. And with decisions come consequences. Consequences can be good or they can be bad, but they will always occur. Every cause  has an effect and your child is in control of that. This is a lesson that will serve them well and will teach them to reflect on their own behavior and how they could have chosen to do things differently.

8. Above All Else, Be Consistent
This is by far the rule of all rules in my opinion, and it doesn't just apply to teaching or to parenting. You have to talk the talk and walk the walk. Do what you say you're going to do, or don't say it at all. Empty threats undermine your authority and make your child lose respect for you. Never say it if you won't do it and never forget to follow through if a line has been crossed. Children crave consistency. In an unpredictable world, your child wants to be able to depend on what you'll do and say at all times. If you begin to make idle threats, you will begin to lose that special relationship with your child. I've seen it time and time again...a child will push you and push you because she is merely seeking a boundary. Do everyone a favor and give it to her, each and every day.

This applies to both mom and dad. Consistency must occur between parents as well as within each parent. If dad's a pushover and mom always has to be the enforcer, both the spousal relationship and the parental relationship will suffer.

Well, there you have it...words of wisdom from a woman who became a teacher first and a mother second. What parenting tips did I leave out?  Do you agree or disagree with any of the above?  Don't hold back, I'd love to hear your thoughts!

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Is there an Autism Epidemic?

11/6/2012

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Autism is the fastest-growing developmental disorder in the world, with the prevalence of diagnosis having increased by 600 per cent over the last 20 years, says Frank Viti, chief executive officer, Autism Speaks Canada 

In 1975, the prevalence number was 1 in 5,000; in 2001 it was 250; in 2012, the prevalence number has jumped to 1 in 88. As Bob Wright, co-founder of Autism Speaks, was quoted as saying, “We have an epidemic on our hands. The costs are staggering and will continue to rise as prevalence continues to increase.”

In the U.S., autism costs society $126 billion per year, which has more than tripled since 2006. With the new prevalence number of 1 in 88, this will jump to $137 billion.

Although there are some positive signs that show an increase in awareness of autism spectrum disorders as well as better detection and reporting of autism, these positive signs come with a need for programs and services to assist those affected by autism. There is also a greater need for access to treatment as the prevalence numbers increase. With this extra awareness, detection and reporting comes an increased need for funding.
Accessibility is also a problem. There are long wait times for diagnosis, and then it is a struggle to secure the appropriate educational services and therapies such as speech, behaviour and occupational therapies that are important to the development of someone on the spectrum. There is also a greater need to make ABA and IBI therapies more accessible. Canada’s Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology reported that in 2007, families were paying more than $60,000 a year on autism therapy.

We all must keep in mind that autism is not something you grow out of. There are thousands of adolescents and adults living with autism and there are not enough resources to help them find housing and employment so that they can lead meaningful and fulfilling lives with the same opportunities that their typically developing peers have. In 2007, the Standing Senate Committee reported that there were more than 144,000 Canadian adults on the spectrum and 48,000 Canadian children. As these young children with autism grow up, they will contribute to the increasing number of the already underfunded and under-resourced adult population on the spectrum. Much more attention needs to be paid to developing programs and services that will help those adults on the spectrum now and to prepare for those who will enter adulthood on the spectrum down the road.

Autism places a tremendous financial and emotional burden that families must confront on a daily basis as they battle this disorder. They need resources to help lessen the constraints that they face in accessing diagnosis, treatment, programs, services and therapies. Costs need to be reduced and access increased, and until there is more substantial evidence that this is happening, autism will be an epidemic in our society.

Jonathan Weiss, Canadian chair in autism research, York University professor:

What a lot of people are saying is there are many reasons why those rates are higher than they were before. One of the major things we are realizing . . . is the complexity around this and that it really is a spectrum of difficulties. Before, we were looking for one specific type of person or look. Now we are seeing things much more broadly. So I think that awareness, better ability to diagnose, better measurement and better ability to track exactly what’s happening might be a lot of the things that are related to the newer numbers relative to older numbers.

When it comes to the cause of this, I’m not the best person to answer that because I’m not looking at the genetics or the environmental influences on the genetics of a very complex disorder.

Awareness, more ability to diagnose and better-trained professionals across Canada and in the U.S. are recognizing many of the people who before weren’t being recognized.

Stephen Scherer, Director, University of Toronto McLaughlin Centre and The Centre for Applied Genomics, Hospital for Sick Children:

The Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has surveyed the prevalence of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) among 8-year-olds from up to 14 U.S. centres every two years since 2000. The most recent analysis pertains to the 2008 cohort, estimating overall prevalence as 1 in 88 children — almost double that of the original, 2000 cohort. So I suppose this substantial observed increase would indeed support the possibility of an autism epidemic, with the caveat that these data cannot distinguish the proportion of the increase attributable to changes in case ascertainment, as opposed to a true increase in ASD prevalence.

Our colleagues in Montreal, Drs. (Mayada) Elsabbagh and (Éric) Fombonne, undertook a comprehensive survey of epidemiological reports to catalogue the global prevalence of ASD and found that it is often under-recognized, particularly in the developing world. Variation in prevalence estimates is largely accounted for by variability in ascertainment and measurement, but environmental exposures may also play a role.

All of these data and my own observations lead me to believe that ASD prevalence is rising incrementally, but that so far there has not been an outbreak, nor is it pandemic. We now know from both the genetic and clinical sense that ASD is highly heterogeneous, so there are many targets or paths that can trigger or lead, respectively, to a diagnosis of ASD. Add to this mix the many new selective pressures being imposed on our brain’s development by the information-based society we now live in, and these phenomena too may account for some of the increase we see in ASD prevalence.

Temple Grandin, one of the world’s most accomplished and well-known high-functioning autistic adults. She is an animal sciences professor at Colorado State University, author and livestock industry consultant on animal behaviour:

Mild autism or Asperger’s has always been here. I’ve worked in a technical industry for 40 years and . . . they’re everywhere. They just used to call these people nerds before . . .

One of the things that helped them (succeed) is that in the 1950s, they taught social rules. Kids were taught table manners, how to shake hands, how to say please and thank you. That was just taught to all children in the ’50s. So they were better able to cope in society.

However, I think severe autism — where children remain non-verbal into adulthood — has increased. I don’t think the total increase would be just the previously undiagnosed Asperger’s. That would probably only be half of it.

Environmental contaminants could be one (explanation). Older parents could also be a factor. One of the problems that a male has is that when he gets older, his sperm has to be copied every two weeks. He makes a copy of a copy of a copy. So as he ages, you get copying mistakes. Women have all their eggs from birth. They are not copied constantly . . .

Kids (today) don’t get enough exercise, they don’t have enough omega 3 in their diets . . . In the ’50s we ate a lot more wild fish. Also, there is more mercury and solvents in the environment.

The other thing is there are a lot more psychiatric and other types of drugs taken during pregnancy. Epilepsy drugs, anti-depressant drugs, a lot of these drugs weren’t taken during the ’50s.

Mike Lake, whose now 17-year-old son, Jaden, has autism, is Conservative MP for Edmonton-Mill Woods-Beaumont:

I’ll leave that question for the scientists to answer. But when you are looking at those numbers I would certainly say that there is a combination. We are doing a better job of recognizing it. So there’s a better job of diagnosis. So that certainly plays into those numbers. But I do believe — and I think if you talk to most families that live with someone with autism — that we would recognize more of it in society as well. So I think you are seeing a combination of the two.

We need to continue with the momentum that we are building. Right now for example in Canada we have some of the best researchers in the world. Talking to Jonathan (Weiss), I have no reason to believe he won’t be another one of those researchers. There is some phenomenal research going on right now. You see Stephen Scherer in Toronto on the Autism Genome Project, really taking a leadership role worldwide with that. Someone like Lonnie Zwaigenbaum and Susan Brison. That list is long and it’s getting longer all the time . . .

Then there is the treatment side of things. And of course most of the treatment in this country falls to the provincial level, so a big part of the equation is getting out to the provincial elected officials and first of all educating them on what autism is because I still don’t think everybody understands exactly what it is and what the challenges are . . . (Then) they can make the right decisions in terms of funding for not only treatment for kids, which tends to be a big focus, but recognizing that autism is a lifespan issue. People with autism live just as long as you or I . . . so there are transitions into school, out of school into the work environment. And then housing challenges and what happens with these kids that become adults that become seniors when we’re gone as parents. That’s a question that all parents grapple with.

Dr. Evdokia Anagnostou, child neurologist, clinician scientist, Bloorview Research Institute; assistant professor, department of pediatrics, University of Toronto:

There is no doubt that the rate of diagnosing autism spectrum disorders (ASD) has been increasing . . .

The question remains whether the increase in the diagnosis is due to a true increase in the incidence of autism spectrum disorder (the true risk of developing ASD) or whether other methodological factors account for this increase.

Possible culprits include changes in the diagnostic criteria, making the diagnosis earlier and earlier so that younger kids are included in the numbers, diagnostic substitution (we diagnose more ASD now than global developmental delay or language disorders compared to one to two decades ago), and increased awareness of the diagnosis, so that teachers, parents and front-line clinicians are more likely to look for signs and symptoms of ASD. All of these would have been predicted to increase the number of children diagnosed, and have been shown to do such in various studies.

The question still remains, after all of this is accounted for, is is there a true increase in the incidence of the disorder?

We do not know the answer to that yet, but that does not mean that we should not be investigating this possibility. Specifically, although we know that ASDs have a strong genetic component, and we absolutely need to understand that more fully so that we can understand the biological paths that may be potentially targets for treatment, there are factors within and out of the human body that influence the degree of gene expression.

In other words, although children with autism carry genetic variations that either cause ASD or increase the risk of ASD, there may be interactions with the environment, whether this is the environment around conception (e.g., recent data related to paternal age), fetal environment or the environment outside of the body that may influence how these genes ultimately affect the function of brain and other biological networks.

As such, studies of the epidemiology of ASD, as well as our genome and gene-by-environment relationships, are still critical to fully answer this question.

Catherine Lord, director of the Center for Autism and the Developing Brain (a collaborative program between New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical College and Columbia University, in partnership with the New York Center for Autism):

The number of children identified as having autism spectrum disorders has clearly been increasing for the last 30 years, with the steepest increases in the last 15 years. Some of this increase is accounted for by diagnostic substitution. That is, children who once received diagnoses of mild intellectual disability or receptive-expressive language disorder are now recognized as having autism spectrum disorder.

However, this shifting only accounts for a small proportion of the increase in numbers. Some of the increase is accounted for by increased awareness and access to services. We can see this in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control numbers, because parents who are not native English speakers, parents who have less education and families in regions with fewer services all have significantly fewer children with ASD in studies, something that seems very unlikely in reality.

We also know that from (the 1987) DSM III-R on, with broader references to difficulties in social reciprocity, as opposed to references to much more severe “lack of social awareness,” that the concept of autism has broadened. However, all of these factors do not necessarily add up to the very large numbers of children being identified now.

A recent study in the U.K., using similar standardized diagnostic methods to those in many other studies in Canada, the U.S. and Europe, found that 1 in 100 adults met diagnostic criteria for ASD, most of whom had never received an ASD diagnosis, though most of them were receiving some kind of psychiatric or social support, and many were not employed or living independently.

If 1 in 100 adults has ASD, then this would not suggest that the numbers of young children are not increasing as much as that, with careful searches, we are doing a better job of finding people with ASD — both children and adults (in that particular study, not necessarily in other circumstances).

Another research finding that suggests caution is that there is very large variation in how many children are identified with ASD in the U.S. in the CDC studies, and even in the baby sibling research projects, where methods are similar and researchers are all well-trained. My bias, as a clinician who works with families with family members with autism, is that most of the variation is accounted for by underestimates — that is, in some areas of the U.S. we are still missing many children, particularly children who are not in the famous “1 per cent” of affluence, with ASD or misdiagnosing them as having other disorders. However, I know that I am biased.

With adults and with the baby sibling studies, it is harder to know what is going on. Our clinic does see some self-referred adults hoping to get diagnoses of ASD that they can use to account for life problems such as marital problems or job losses or problems with the law, when ASD is not appropriate. In contrast, we also regularly see adults whom we do diagnose with ASD who have never received an autism diagnosis before but have clearly struggled with the difficulties associated with autism since early childhood, and just never had a good assessment. For children, my experience is that far fewer families seek diagnoses of ASD when they are not appropriate.

Putting this information together, I do not believe that we can rule out the possibility that the numbers of children with autism are increasing beyond diagnostic substitution and increased awareness, but we need to be very careful how we study these changes.

As a former Edmontonian and proud wife and mother of Canadians, I can proudly say that the Canadian health and social systems are much more uniformly accessible within provinces than these services in the U.S. and offer an opportunity to figure out what the true nature of these changes in numbers mean.

I avoid the use of the word “epidemic” because it has connotations of contagion and fear, which I do not think are helpful for families. But I think we need to understand what is happening.
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"One in 88 children are now diagnosed with autism"

Is There an Autism Epidemic?
by Dr. Steven Novella

There is no question that the rates of autism diagnosis have been increasing in the US and the Western world. The latest Centers for Disease Control (CDC) estimates indicate that 1 in 88 children have been diagnosed as being on the autism spectrum (1/54 boys and 1/252 girls). This is up from just two years ago when the estimate was 1/100 children, and much higher that the 1990s when estimates were around 1/250.  

It certainly looks like we are in the middle of an autism epidemic, but experts are not so sure, and for good reason.  

As a general rule in any scientific discipline when a measured quantity is changing over time you have to consider the possibility that the method of measurement is changing, rather than the thing being measured itself. In medicine this often relates to the method of diagnosis. To be precise we often say the rate of diagnosis is increasing (or decreasing), rather than the rate of the disease - unless all diagnostic artifacts have been reasonably ruled out.  

Autism is particularly susceptible to diagnostic artifacts. Various factors have been identified that could, and probably are, affecting the rate at which the autism diagnosis is made.  

The first is an expansion in the diagnosis itself. In fact autism is part of what is now called autism spectrum disorder, because we recognize that it exists along a fairly broad spectrum. If you cast a wider net, you're going to catch more fish - that doesn't mean there are more fish.  

Related to this issue is the fact that autism is a clinical diagnosis - it's based on recognizing a set of signs and symptoms. At present there are no biological markers that can be used to reliably diagnose autism. There is therefore no laboratory confirmation or objective result that can be used to compare prevalence over time. Clinical judgment is required, and that judgment can drift over time.  

Awareness and familiarity with autism can therefore also lead to more diagnoses. Teachers may be more likely to consider the diagnosis and raise the issue with parents, and doctors may be more likely to make the diagnosis.  

Yet another related issue is so-called diagnostic substitution. There are several related diagnoses the may be more likely to be diagnosed as autism today. Two or three decades ago, however, the same children might have been diagnosed with a non-specific developmental disorder, or a language disorder.  

Surveillance is another issue - the effort being made by school systems and others to identify children who have special needs because they fit on the autism spectrum.

The scientific evidence strongly supports a major role for all these various factors in explaining the increase in autism diagnosis. Studies have shown that there is diagnostic substitution (as autism diagnosis goes up, other related diagnoses go down), there is increased surveillance, and there is wider recognition of autism. The chance of having a child diagnosed with autism strongly corresponds to living near other families with a child on the spectrum, and being in the same school system. Therefore social contact with others with the diagnosis increases the chance of being diagnosed.  

Several studies have shown that when the same methods are used to compare different cohorts of children born at different times, the autism prevalence is the same. Further, the prevalence of autism in different age groups (when the same surveillance and diagnostic methods are used) appears to be the same. If the true incidence of autism were increasing then younger age groups would have a higher prevalence.  

It is possible, therefore, from these various factors that the apparent rise in autism is entirely an artifact of diagnosis and surveillance. It is difficult to prove this, however, and so there is always a certain amount of uncertainty. It is also possible that there is a real increase in the incidence of autism over time, but there is no data that establishes that there is a real increase beyond the factors described above.  

Of course there are some groups that are invested in the notion that autism is truly increasing and represents an epidemic. Most notable is the anti-vaccine movement, who over the last decade have been blaming the increase in autism on vaccines. Initially they blamed autism on the MMR vaccine, but the scientific data did not support that claim, and the credibility of the originator of this fear, Andrew Wakefield, has since crashed and burned.  

After the MMR hypothesis failed they next turned to mercury in the form of thimerosal in some vaccines. They confused correlation with causation by arguing that autism rates were increasing as the vaccine schedule also increased. By the end of 2002, however, thimerosal was removed from the routine vaccine schedule in the US, and therefore the amount of exposure to thimerosal plummeted. Advocates of the thimerosal hypothesis (such as David Kirby) predicted that autism rates would also plummet.  

They were correct in that, if thimerosal were a significant contributor to autism then the rates should drop considerably once thimerosal was largely removed from childhood vaccines (it was still present in some flu vaccines). Since 2002, however, autism diagnosis rates have continued to increase at the same rate. We are now 10 years later, and there is simply no justification for clinging to the thimerosal hypothesis any further (of course this hasn't stopped antivaccinationists).  

Ironically the antivaxers are now using the continued increase in autism diagnosis to argue that vaccines cause autism, even though that increase contradicts their prior predictions.  

The data clearly shows that much, if not all, of the increase in autism is due to expanded diagnosis and surveillance. It is still possible that there is a real increase, but more research would be needed to establish that.  

However, regardless of cause, we now know that autism is very common. It therefore deserves a proper level of attention and resources, both for research and services for those on the spectrum.

Steven Novella, M.D. is the JREF's Senior Fellow and Director of the JREF’s Science-Based Medicine project.

Dr. Novella is an academic clinical neurologist at Yale University School of Medicine. He is the president and co-founder of the New England Skeptical Society and the host and producer of the popular weekly science show, The Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe. He also authors the NeuroLogica Blog.
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