I have the newest edition of the fantastic Green Parent to give away to one lucky winner!
This issue includes:
- Healing Teeth Naturally
- Natural Homes Special
- How to live off grid
- Cut Your Clutter
- Middle Eastern Veggie Feasts
- Unplugging Teenagers
- Awareness Parenting
- PLUS Loads More!
you can get a sneak peek at what is inside here and here
All you have to do to enter is comment on www.lactivist.net with an easy tip or idea to be a Green Parent. Each comment gets one entry and the winner will be drawn at random from the comments after the 16th March. They don’t need to be complicated ideas, just simple ones will do!
Entrants from Europe only please.
UPDATE 19th March 2012 Thank you for all your entries, the winner (chosen at random) was Gemma who has been emailed. I’ll be using all your ideas for blog posts too!
Mummy Milk Rocks – Shopping Bag 
“Any old Cow” Short Sleeved T 3-6 months 
“Any old Cow” Short Sleeved T 6-12 months 
Care Instructions – Shopping Bag 
Any Old Cow – Shopping Bag 
In late summer/early autumn take a lovely walk with the family, pick some blackberries and make some nice goodies at home.
No car emissions, bit of exercise, no carbon footprint from transporting food, and no pesticides used to grow the food.
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Use cloth nappys and wash them at 30 degrees.
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Use cloth nappies and hang them on the line instead of using the dryer
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So many simple green things you can do, but the simplest of all is breastfeeding your baby.
That being said because it was too obvious I will share some of my other green tips.
Our kids love helping plant the vegetables. Never too early for them to start being self sufficient. Their favourite job is filling the watering cans from the water butt.
They also help Mummy with the recycling by helping washing the bottles and jars. An afternoon of water play, fun, helping mummy and being green all at the same time
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Stock up on cheap face flannels from the pound shop and use as reusable wet wipes. Use and drop them into the nappy bucket when dirty.
Use soapnuts instead of washing liquid and white vinegar instead of fabric softner.
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Nothing greener or prettier than a line of cloth nappies in the garden drying!
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Go vegetarian, or at least cut red meat out and certain fish which are not as sustainable as others.
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cloth bumming is great but elimination communication is brilliant also, even just a little bit of bare bum time a day can save some nappy changes. x
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Sharing the bath with your baby. No need for complicated safety seats when they are in your lap splashing away happily. Less water used and some nice bonding time too.
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We love hand me down clothes! great as chepaer for us so save some pennies, and recycling is good for the planet too. Also when you hand your clohtes to soemone else its lovely too see thir child in them brings back memories of your little one at that age.
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buy a cheap fleece blanket and cut up into wipes and cloth nappy liners as well as being green and saving on babywipes and disposable liners it saves the pennies too! :0)
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Show your children how to recycle and re use so it teaches them how to become more green for the planet. little things turns into big things in time x
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