It’s the First Monday in October, meaning it’s National Child Health Day. It’s a day established in 1928 to promote our children’s physical health, but why not focus on their mental and emotional well-being, too? We can play a few active games with them, take a walk or bike ride together, or team up to clean up the garden. We can also spend some extra time with them, maybe having a little picnic in the backyard, doing some chores together and complementing them on their help, giving them a few extra hugs, talking to them, one-on-one, about friends, school, activities they’re involved in or a movie you saw together or an incident when you both saw someone acting as a bully. Yes, these are things we should be doing every day with our children. But this is a great day to redouble our efforts–for the good of our children.
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Replace Your Cooler
It’s getting on beach/picnic/sightseeing time. You look at your old cooler and see crud, cracks, or breaks. But it’s essential to your outing–HAVE to take along cold drinks and snacks that need to be kept cool. So you have to replace it.
I don’t recommend products too often, but this one is fantastic. It isn’t made of Styrofoam, which never breaks down, or plastic, which takes forever to disintegrate. It’s biodegradable, yet strong enough to hold 75 pounds, keep water without leaking for 5 days and ice for 12 hours, has cup holders built into the top, and is lightweight. And it is not expensive–try $9.99 for a 16-quart cooler.
It will meet your needs and is a good step toward eliminating Earth-harming Styrofoam and cutting down on plastic. It’s called Recool, and it’s made by Igloo.
No Bread for Ducks
You’re at a lake and the ducks come swimming up near you. They must be hungry, and you have that crust of bread….DON’T DO IT!
Bread is bad for ducks because it fills them up but doesn’t give them any nutrition they need from plants. This is especially harmful for baby ducks. By replacing the nutrients they need for healthy growth and substance, bread can cause a permanent wing-deformity that makes baby birds unable to fly and adult birds sick and fat.
Read more in the Popular Science article Why you should never ever feed bread to a duck, then just enjoy the antics of the ducks on your next picnic and know you’re doing what’s best for them.
