Tea Collection for Teens and Tweens
Finding ethically sourced clothing that is also affordable and appealing to kids can be a challenge. I'm a long-time fan of Tea Collection. My girls have been wearing their soft cotton clothing since they were babies. No kidding, I've used Tea for back-to-school, for Easter, for our holiday photos . . . I am not kidding when I say I love this company. They’ve always got such fun, fresh clothes for girls in globally-inspired prints that somehow manage to be both fashion-forward and timeless. The . . .
This is empowerment: day 1 with Krochet Kids Peru
I am spending this week in Lima, Peru with my friends Sarah, Heather, and Rebecca. We are visiting with my friends The Goodfellows, who run the Peru arm of Krochet Kids, an organization that provides training, employment, childcare, and mentorship for impoverished women. I’ve written about Krochet Kids before. I love their model of empowerment and I’m thrilled to be here again with some other bloggers in the hopes that we can expand the reach of Krochet Kids’ mission. Yesterday was Sunday and . . .
The inconvenient truth about your Halloween chocolate and forced child labor
The picture below is a photo of a young child gathering pods to harvest cocoa beans. There are hundreds of thousands of children in West Africa who do this work. Young children. Children who should be attending school and having a childhood. And they are working for most of the mainstream chocolate providers in the USA. A report from the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture about cocoa farms in the Ivory Coast estimated there were 284,000 children working on cocoa farms in . . .
Best fair-trade chocolate bars
We made the switch to fair-trade chocolate a few years ago, and in that time I’ve done my civic duty sampling a variety of chocolate to figure out what tastes best. It’s the least I could do. Anyway, I’m hear to report a few of my favorites, in case you are looking for a mother’s day gift (or a stash of chocolate to eat yourself.) A few folks had asked about the bars in my kids’ Easter Basket . . . they were the salted almond chocolate bars from Theo. I order most of my chocolate from Amazon . . .