Are you an eco-mom?

From the Parents Council blog this week:

“When my kids were young, we were in a mom’s group and we all sat around breastfeeding our babies, changing our cloth diapers, sharing organic snacks, and I think, feeling pretty smug about our choices.

“But I never felt quite comfortable because I remember thinking, ‘So if a mom walks in here with a bottle and paper diapers and a bag of Cheetos,’ are we just going to toss her out? Of course, it didn’t happen because like-minded moms band together and we were never around bottle-feeding, Cheeto-eating moms.

“And on some level, I felt like I was missing out on something that maybe those moms could teach me. And I wonder about that now.

“I think the ‘eco movement’ is good. I think we need to look at the bigger picture and we need to send out a message that enough is enough. But we can’t do it all at once and we can’t see it all done in our lifetime, and I think it can all happen, one conversation at a time, at the dinner table with our kids.

“And it can happen when we use cloth napkins; and when we grab that paper diaper, we can be glad that we have the resources now to purchase the diapers and perhaps tonight at the dinner table with the cloth napkin, we can make a difference with the children in front of us.”

– Posted by Sarah Bain

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