After viewing Julianne Moore’s video (below), many of you commented that knowing she held such a strong reverence to protecting children’s health, made you fall in love with her even more. I actually held a mini-JM film festival and made my husband sit through a few of my...

  This article from Great Lakes Echo is written by Brian Bienkowski: Fetuses, newborns and infants are most at risk for mercury exposure, and a sampling of newborns in the Lake Superior basin showed 8 percent of them testing above safe levels. The study, conducted...

I remember when my son was first diagnosed with asthma. I was a single mom living over 600 miles away from my family and friends. He was in the 2nd or 3rd grade, and it seemed like he was always getting sick. The nurse would...

I became a mother in 2010, but I have had kids since 2003 when I began teaching high school science. People used to laugh when I told them about my 100+ kids because I was only 22 years old! During our 84-minute science classes, I think...

I sent my daughter to school today without her bathing suit, even though today is a swim day for her. And I forgot to remind the kids to pack their library books. Well, ok, there’s more: I had to buy a new Metrocard yesterday when...