It has been all over the news lately; Bisphenol-A laden baby bottles, toys, and eating utensils!

First, we all switched to organic foods (and products), then we stopped vaccinating our kids because of trace metals that will enter their little bodies.  We stopped using tap water because of the evil poisonous fluoride, and now we will go to any length to buy toxin-free bottles and toys for our kids.

This phenomenon has spurred market sales totaling 12 million in 2006, according to the U.S. Census.

Have we lost all sense of reason?!

Parents (Generation X parents (mainly) with too much disposable income) are lining up to purchase BPA free items for their beloved children.

Spurred by countless blogs, holistic moms groups, and the media, parents have become fanatical about going toxin-free.

But how far will we go?  Target is now making an entire line of wooden toys.  Numerous companies, Born Free and  Medela among them, now specialize in making BPA-free feeding products.  The list goes on.


I thinks it's very easy to get caught up in the fear and distrust.  However, I think we need to draw the line somewhere.  What's next?  Will we say that clothes are too restrictive so we must revert back to loin cloths and togas?!  That education is too taxing for our children's little brains, let's not start teaching them anything so young...

I hope these are not the same parents who smoke like chimneys and are hopped up on sleep aids and depression drugs (which by the way, are seeping into our drinking water!).  I hope they're not the same parents who are out there buying the latest SUV models that use up way too much gas.  And the same parents who put their kids on Ritalin at the first sign of hyperactivity!

No, I am not dimwitted enough to generalize and say that everyone is wrong.  Far from it.  But what I'm saying is that there are more important changes that need to be made.  Consider all of the waste that gets dumped into landfills every day in America.  There is the greenhouse effect to worry about; homeless children still litter the streets of America; and drug companies are getting fatter each day pushing unnecessary drugs on the young and the old.

If these same people put their heads together to improve even one of these issues, we could rest assured of a better future.  As it stands, it is impossible to say whether we will have a planet to call home in a decade or two anyway...

We are all too caught up in the here and now.  Let's start caring about the future; before it becomes too late to make a tangible difference.