Be part of the revolution!

I love being right. Don’t you? And I’m sure in the past few years since my passion for natural parenting and chemical free living has grown there have been many times when my husband has shaken his head, convinced the woman he married has run off and instead he is living with some hippie woman who ultimately want to live in far off woop woop without electricity and running water. But recently it seems the rest of the world is catching up with what a lot of us have known for a long time; many of the things in our everyday lives are not good for us. The most recently publicised the steps taken by the FDA in Australia to encourage major retailers to phase out baby bottles containing BPA or bisphenol A.

I said to my husband just over 12 months ago – that’s it we are getting rid of all this plastic stuff. I banned plastic water bottles, unless they were BPA free and got the kids stainless steel bottles instead. I’m sure he thought I was off my rocker when I ditched a lot of our “microwave safe” stuff and headed for glass. Probably the last straw was when I started sending his lunch in cloth wrappers. But being the patient and cautious man he is. He put up with my notions and I was proud to be able to stand up and say – I told you so now that acknowledgement has been made about concerns over the dangers of BPA and phalates in plastic products.
What a great time to be part of the revolution when it seems finally science is backing up what many have thought for a very long time. Just looking around the supermarket shelves you can see what a difference knowledge and the power of the consumer dollar can have as more and more people are searching for chemical free living products.

More and more food without artificial colours, flavours and preservative (yes I know scoring the trifecta is still difficult but compared to five years ago – wow what a difference.) You can even purchase cleaning products and personal care products like toothpaste and shampoo in the mainstream supermarkets that are petrochemical free. You may have been one of the people who saw an ecstatic woman jumping around excitedly in the cleaning isle last week when I found 3 – yes 3 different brands of dishwasher tablets that were plant based and eco-friendly – not just with low potassium and sodium.

I often used to sit morosely wondering what the world would be like in 50 years time but it small steps like this that have me picturing perhaps a better future than I would have thought. One where our scientific advances have worked to create a truly better world, not just for us, but for the world itself. Where maybe my dream of living in Woop-Woop completely self sustained will be the norm rather than the exception.