I don’t know about your kids, buy mine officially went back to school yesterday! I heard one of the Traders Joe’s in a local town nearby was actually giving out free mimosa’s. While I didn’t participate in the mimosa celebration, I believe our entire family is ready for the change that the school year brings. I truly enjoyed the time I spent with my family over the summer, but am excited for the kids to have a bit more structure in their days and start the school year off on a positive note. One of the things that you can do is to help create a good Toxic Free environment for schoolwork at home.
As the cycle of homework begins, we all have some type of struggle with getting our kids to do homework. But did you realize that the cleaning products that you or your cleaning lady “if you are one of the lucky one that have one” uses, can impact your childs environment in how well they do with completing their homework?
Here are 3 sample pictures of an 8 year old boy doing homework They might be a little bit hard to read, but I think you’ll get the point.
1) FIRST ROW – While mom cleaning the house – You can see that his hand writing is not the greatest and is a bit backwards or dyslexic.
2) SECOND ROW – Taking out cleaning products and used non-toxic ones, just to see what would happen – You can see the results that the handwriting is neater and not backwards.
3) THIRD ROW- Added Toxic Cleaners Back – Mom couldn’t believe the results that she saw, so she added the chemical cleaners back in her home to see what type of results she would get. Amazingly enough, she saw a decrease in her child’s work, just like the first time.
This sounds like something so simple, but I am sure there are some skeptics out there saying really??? Is this true?
YES REALLY – I can share many other examples with you on real life stories of how making a simple change like cleaning products can have a positive impact on your family. While we moms think that a “Clean Smelling House” creates a good environment for our kids, we need to think again about how our personal like of the smell of our favorite cleaning products might actually be producing fumes that create the Not So Best Environment for our kids. We need to accept that Clean has no smell and begin to create a Non-Toxic Environment for our families.