Archive for January, 2009
Hooray! Some Good News…
A big thank you to Lisa of Over the Crescent Moon for informing me that yesterday, the Consumer Protection Safety Commission (CPSC) unanimously voted to delay enforcement of certain testing and certification requirements.
The new requirements were scheduled to take effect on February 10, 2009 but enforcement will now be delayed for one year (February 10, [...]
Posted: January 31st, 2009 under CPSIA, Everything Else!, good causes.
Comments: 3
Albatross Studies
Perhaps my favorite place in the whole world is the South Island of New Zealand. If you live there, I SO envy you! What a beautiful place filled with nice people…I can’t say enough wonderful things about it. The only drawback is that, for most of us in the world, it is a little out [...]
Posted: January 30th, 2009 under Everything Else!, environment, good causes, nature, websites.
Comments: 2
Technical Difficulties :(
Ugh, I spent the whole morning writing a complicated post and it suddenly and mysteriously disappeared. Not only that, every single post that I had written since September 2nd evaporated also! Nightmare!!
Thanks to the Word Press help forum, I was able to repair the appropriate database and all seems to be back to [...]
Posted: January 29th, 2009 under Everything Else!.
Comments: 3
Ball - Bernoulli’s Principle (Weekly Unplugged Project)
The theme for this week’s Unplugged Project was ball. My original thought was golf ball. We live on a golf course so our backyard provides us with a constant supply of golf balls!
We are still feeling very “sciency,” so I decided to stick with a science project like last week. For a while now, I [...]
Posted: January 26th, 2009 under Activity Ideas, Unplugged Project, educational/homeschool, science projects.
Comments: 10
Update on Illegal Toys (…Clothes, Books, etc.)
See this cute thrift store British guards pull toy that my 3 year-old loves? (Made in England)
It was given to her by my thrift store-loving British Dad.
After February 10th, it will [might??] be illegal.
A quick update on the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA) situation:
The Save Small Business From the CPSIA proposition at [...]
Posted: January 22nd, 2009 under CPSIA, Everything Else!, good causes.
Comments: 3
Balance - Flying / Balancing Birds (Weekly Unplugged Project)
Thanks to a suggestion from Meg at Bare Baby Feet, this week’s Unplugged Project theme is balance. We felt “sciency” this week, so my oldest daughter and I scoured our favorite science book but found nothing that sounded fun to her.
I did a few Google searches and happened across this amazing-seeming experiment. I tried it [...]
Posted: January 18th, 2009 under Activity Ideas, Unplugged Project, arts and crafts, educational/homeschool, science projects.
Comments: 12