Eco-Healthy Kids
Green is often thought to symbolize the outdoors, nature, health, fresh air and peace. Little Tot’s exemplifies all of these characteristics. Here at Little Tot’s our philosophy is to provide a happy healthy environment for the children each day.
Here are the top 4 ways Little Tot’s is Green Naturally…
1. We vacuum every day.
2. We do not use chemical based aerosol sprays for room freshening. We use only fresh air and natural orange peel spray.
3. We do not allow any smoking in our house.
4. We use a 90% efficiency furnace that continually pulls fresh air from the outdoors. Our furnace has a second heat exchanger which supplements the primary heat and saves energy.
5. We keep our home dry with a humidity control sensor on our furnace.
6. We change our furnace filter once every four months.
Environmentally Friendly Household Cleaners
We believe that home should be the safest place in the whole world. And, that you shouldn’t have to sacrifice powerful convictions for powerful cleaners.
7. We use Shaklee Get Clean products!
Three years ago, I learned that most of the products meant to ‘clean’ our homes actually contain alarming amounts of poisons. Poisons that cause immediate harm, and ones that can cause ailments such as asthma, cancer and emphysema. According to the national organization, Safe Kids USA, there are more than 1.2 million unintentional poisonings per year of kids under five years old. Shaklee Get Clean products contain natural biodegradable cleaning agents. They also have no phosphates, borates, nitrates or other stuff the planet doesn’t appreciate. They are super concentrated, so Shaklee takes out the water and saves you money. I’ve become such an advocate of Shaklee’s Get Clean products and their nutritional supplements, I am now a member! http://lisaboni.myshaklee.com/us/en/welcome.html
We Eat Healthy!
8. Each day we choose healthy meals for the children. We eat many fresh fruits and vegetables, while limiting refined sugars, processed meats, and prepackaged foods. Thanks to our teachers’ great cooking skills, we are able to pre-plan and prepare several homemade meals each week.
9. New for 2011, a children’s garden! We are so excited! Mr. Lou is building a special place just for little green thumbs. The children will be planting vegetables, including peas, carrots, corn, lettuce, broccoli and cauliflower.
We Recycle
10. Here at Little Tot’s we recycle Glass, Aluminum, Paper and Plastic.
11. We purchase items in bulk to cut down on packaging.
12. We reuse as many items as we can through art projects, class activities and storage.