Lauren asked:


If it is, how far do you go to keep it organic? What is the major thing that HAS to be organic?

If not, why?

I shop at an organic food store, and i try to get all my meat, milk, and other diary products from there. Also my fruits and vegetables, what about you? I find that organic foods taste so MUCH better, or that just me?

Be nice! Target has organic food. So does Tom Thumb, wow…chill out! I was just asking!
mama of four kids- haha! Send me an email anytime, laurenm.smith@yahoo.com

♥Ąĺęxíã Ÿ’s мσммy Đūĕ Dec 7♥ asked:


I have never bought organic fruits or vegetables. I actually was so dumb as to eat apples and strawberries in the past WITHOUT knowing their the highest in pesticides.

Right now I’m 8 weeks pregnant and am now considering buying fruits and vegetables organic.

So just wondering how many of you eat organic?? Sometimes or most of the time?
I’m really not into organic things but I’m just doing it for the duration of my pregnancy.

Jane Doe 2.0 asked:


I don’t mean people who live in the city because the bug problem is limited… I mean people who have a whole slew of munchers to contain. My veggies have been doing awesome this year so far without insecticide, but I am starting to notice the bugs and holes in my leaves… I have not had luck with any organic remedies… It seems the bugs are just daring me to try another natural remedy so they can just laugh at me… I am now considering pesticides.

Nathan Wilde asked:


Neither me or my fiancee can bring our selves to give our two kids things like a biscuit or a piece of chocolate as a treat, albeit one is six months old so he doesn’t eat solids yet as he’s still breastfed. All of my step daughter (That’s what she’ll technically be when I marry her mum but I prefer to call her my daughter) friends and family think it’s silly she’s never eaten chocolate or a burger or drank fizzy pop. We lead pretty much an organic, additive free life. We grow our own vegetables, support local bakeries, farmers and butchers. Are we wrong to not let our kids eat junk food? The kids are slender and not fat like many kids are becoming from eating junk food.
I’m not boasting I’m asking

Vanessa P asked:


This is only a book for mommies with a sense of humor. If you don’t agree with the premise of the book, please don’t feel obligated to write.

This book is about the stupid lies you’ve heard other moms tell. Or the lies you’ve told. You know…Oh I would NEVER let little Chrissy out of my sight for one second….when you know that little Chrissy sat in her bouncy seat for ten minutes while Mommy scrubbed the baby puke out of her hair.

Or I would never ever ever feed my child anything with sugar in it when you know that Mommy gave him a popsicle because it was the only way to distract him from the bonk on his head.
I don’t care where you heard it or if you said it or your mom or my mom said it. Share it with me. Got a funny story? Send it. We’re all in this together gals.

I have to go make some organic, all-natural, grown-in-my-own-garden baby food. After I’m done, I’m going to clean the bathroom.

See……mommies lie.

Yummy Mummy asked:


how are you environmentally friendly?
I want to teach our child to be environmentally concious, we currently recycle, we use food scraps for the garden, we re-use water wherever possible and i plan to use cloth nappies and only feed our baby organic foods (what we eat) and we either walk or ride our bikes everywhere (my hubby only uses the car for work).

Wayne asked:


When my boy was very young soon after my wife and daughter died I joined a single parents group that mostly consisted of single moms - it sort of worked as a support community, as well as a playgroup for the kids. My son is now nearly 12 and is still friends with many of those kids, so while there were only a couple of parents in the group that I would consider my friends, I’m still in contact with many of the moms because of our kids. They’re nice enough, but I always hear two things from them: you’re so strict, you need to loosen up or you really should be stricter with him, it’s not good for him to have so much freedom and who knows what would happen. I apparently am somehow at both extremes at the same time, and I’m not sure how that happened, so I’m asking you what you think. We live in a small, safe town outside of a fairly big city. These are all things that they have taken offense at:
He can walk/ride his bike just about anywhere in our town - he rides his bike the half mile to school. When we’re in the city, he has to stick with me. He has to be home by dark, though, unless I tell him I want him home sooner. He can stay home by himself for a couple of hours but not overnight.
He can watch any movie up through PG-13 and some R’s (I have to watch them with him or have seen them first, though). He can play T video games and some M. He can read whatever he wants to, including graphic novels. He has to do his homework before he can watch TV or play video games, though he can read or go outside first if he wants, and if his grades go down he gets his video games taken away til they go back up. He inherited my old laptop and can keep it in his room/go online. He can start taking girls on dates in a couple of years, but he talks to me about girls. We eat mostly organic food from our garden/a local farm, but we do keep some junk food around the house - chips, cookies, soda. We dirtbike, go fourwheeling, play paintball, hunt, snowboard, surf, etc. He also does youth boxing. He’s obviously too young to drive on the road yet, but I’ve taught him how to drive stickshift at our friend’s cabin. He has to be in bed at 10 on schoolnights, but he can read if he’s not tired yet. On weekends, he doesn’t have a bedtime.
No problems with drugs, sex, or the law have come up yet but I’ve told him if it ever does happen:
- you do something to get taken into custody, I won’t be paying your bail right away.
- If you’re too young to take responsibility for a child, you’re too young to be having sex, and when he does start to have sex, he needs to wrap it up.
- If he starts doing drugs, I will do what it takes to stop him.

Sorry that was so long. I’m sick, he’s in school, and this is something I’ve been wondering about for a while. Thanks for your time.

anonymom asked:


I am in the middle of a divorce from a very passive aggressive man. He picks up the girls, who are almost 2 and 5 from school every day and has them for an hour or so. During this time he feeds them TOTAL junk food. Today it was chips and cookies. He has given them candy, candy, sugary stuff, cheatos, juice. Enough to give you a stomach ache. Me, on the other hand, have a strong belief about natural foods, local foods, growing an organic garden, shopping at the farmers market, rarely processed food. I am very concerned at the long term health effects as well as the fact they are not hungry to eat a healthy meal when they come home. I believe he may be doing this to get back at me or perhaps he doesn’t care. It’s really making me angry tho. How to deal with this?!?

Amily C asked:


I give my daughter organic milk, organic strawberries and few other fruits/veggies. I am wondering how much other mothers out there are using organic products. Sometimes the prices are so high for organic food, I end up buying regular fruits.

Emma asked:


I have 4 kids (my five-year-old twin girls, my three-year-old little boy, and my two-year-old little girl). I dont understand how my children can visit a playmate’s house and come home saying they ate fruit roll ups, Mcdonalds, mac and cheese, candy bars, hot dogs, TV dinners, etc..for their lunch or dinner. I only feed my kids organic fresh foods. I have a huge Organic garden at my house outside Los Angeles and we grow tons of fruits and vegetables, have free range chickens, fresh eggs, etc.. My kids had never even ate at a fast food joint before friends parents took them to one without my permission. My kids eat all our home-grown fruits and vegetables, the free-range organic meats that I buy, etc… Never highly processed junk, full of stuff you can’t even pronounce. I don’t ever buy anything that’s not natural, or else from our own garden. Am I wrong by this? I understand when my kids are older they can make their own choice but I want to instill in them these values now, because that’s what my parents did for me. My kids love the food we eat, but now also ask me for crap when I’m driving and they’re in the car and we go past a fast food place, or when we’re at a store. Is it wrong of me to say something to these parents about not offering my kids that junk?
Yeah maybe it would be best if I just pack their lunches for them from now on whenever they go to see a playmate…
Well I think a healthy diet is worth the extra cost when you consider it lowers the chance of heart attacks, diabetes, high cholesterol, cancer, obesity, etc…when they’re older