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Parents of America - Are You Awake?
Healthy Child
Wednesday, February 03, 2010
For most parents, a wailing baby is our daily wake-up call. Parenthood is a never-ending procession of realizations, do-overs, and wake up calls. We learn something new everyday, and often times our children act as our most powerful teachers.
Over the past 17 years, Healthy Child Healthy World has witnessed the “light-bulb moment” of millions of parents when they learn that toxic chemicals have unknowingly contaminated their homes, their environments, and their own bodies. It’s unthinkable that the government hasn’t been protecting our families and that industry has greedily swept aside concern for public health in the face of profit. Parents soon feel betrayed, they feel vulnerable, they feel alone.
That’s where Healthy Child comes in. Healthy Child is there to help parents understand this new reality, to teach them how to minimize risk, and to provide the tools so they can do something about it.
But, it’s time to really shake things up by waking up every parent in the country.
Join us on Twitter – February 3rd from 10-11 pm EST
- Share your story of what compelled you to wake-up
- Toot your own horn for what you’ve done to help wake-up others
- Help us come up with new ways to wake-up other parents, businesses, and elected officials
- Have a chance to win a prize – we’ll be giving away 3 copies of the Healthy Child Healthy World book, a Born Free Baby Bottle Gift Set, a Klean Kanteen water bottle, the Raising Baby Green book, and a Born Free Microwave Sterilizer!
How to Attend the Twitter Party – It’s FREE!!!
1. Join our discussion by using the #ecowed AND #wakeupstory hashtag in each of your tweets so we can all follow the conversation.
2.
Follow http://www.twitter.com/3greenangels and http://www.twitter.com/healthy_child so you can respond to the discussion and ask us questions.
3. Use Tweet Grid to make following the conversation easier.
4. RSVP below to be entered into the giveaway.
And, one more thing….Please help Healthy Child send a universal wake-up call to inform parents about the dangers of toxic chemicals in our world, and get a movement of parents activated to do something about it in 2010!
Share “A Wake-Up Story!”
- on your blog (find the embed code here)
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by forwarding the video to your personal networks
- on Facebook, here are some sample status updates:
“I woke up when…[I became pregnant, my son developed asthma, etc].
How about you? Are you awake? url ”
“I’m awake, are you? Watch a Wake-Up Story. url ”
“Please answer this wake-up call and join the movement. url ”
- on Twitter, here is a sample Tweet:
“Are you awake? Watch this and you will be. url ”
- on YouTube (you can comment on our video and share our video on your Playlist)
- on Digg, Stumbleupon, and Posterous
- anywhere else you can think of!
THANK YOU for helping us alert parents to the dangers of exposure to chemicals in everyday products and build the movement to create healthy environments for children.
Posted by christine on 02/03/2010 at 07:14 PM
@fiskers
Posted by Rebecca @Happywillow on 02/03/2010 at 07:12 PM
I will on!
Posted by PsychMamma on 02/03/2010 at 07:12 PM
Is this the RSVP spot?? I hope to “attend” as much as I can!
Posted by Heather @ Green Baby Green Mama on 02/03/2010 at 07:04 PM
I LOVE Healthy Child Healthy World - You are such a great resource for every parent! Thank you!
Posted by julie on 02/03/2010 at 07:04 PM
@julie_slp
Posted by Jill on 02/03/2010 at 04:16 PM
I’ll be there! Hopefully my son will cooperate and be asleep so I can chat :)
Posted by Emily Lynne Ion on 02/03/2010 at 01:31 PM
Sheila,
Thanks for catching that! I’ve added the link to embed code - please share our video!
Many thanks,
Emily
Healthy Child Staff
Posted by Sheila on 02/03/2010 at 12:53 PM
Am I missing something? It says to find the embed code here, but there’s no link??
Beautiful message. Love it.
Posted by Chris Martin on 02/03/2010 at 12:43 PM
Great article. I’ve been concerned for years since my first child was born 31 years ago. I disagree on one thing that is it’s the governments responsibility. I believe I need to be constantly on guard in my home and let other know of my findings and then let manufacture know I will not be purchasing their products unless they change… Have a great day and be healthy
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Posted by Julia @ Easy Eco To Go on 02/03/2010 at 07:28 PM
I’ll be there @easyecotogo