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CONTACT MBS:
You can contact Mobile Baby Store by emailing a request, by phone at 951-316-3681 or email at CDempster@mobilebabystore.com or by mail at the mailing address at 30141 Antelope Rd. #319, Menifee, CA 92584
EWG Helping Kids... Babies are coming into this world pre-polluted with toxic chemicals. When
EWG tested the umbilical cord blood of 10 Americans, we found nearly 300 chemicals, including BPA, perchlorate, fire retardants, lead, mercury,
andPCBs. The best way to stop this pre-pollution is to enact the Kid-Safe Chemicals Act, which would require that chemicals be proven safe for children before
they can be sold. Click here to sign our petition. Now is the time for Congress to
introduce the Kid-Safe Chemicals Act. The chemicals are in us. The risk of disease and illness is
serious. The chemicals we found
are increasingly linked to serious long-term health effects, from childhood cancer
and autism to ADHD, learning
deficits, infertility, and heart disease. We need a system for assessing chemicals so our children get the healthy
start they deserve. The longer Congress waits, the more babies are exposed. Sign EWG Action Fund's petition to Congress
Join the 1000's of other Americans who are telling Congress it's time for a real federal toxics law that will make chemicals
in consumer products safe for kids. Click here to add your name to the EWG petition. Congress needs to
hear from you right now. We've waited long enough.
This is just too good not to
pass on to all. Here is something absolutely positive for a change. I have repeatedly seen the breakdown of the cost
of raising a child, but this is the first time I have seen the rewards listed this way. It's nice.
The government
recently calculated the cost of raising a child from birth to 18 and came up with $160,140.00 for a middle income family.
Talk about price shock! That doesn't even touch college tuition. But $160,140.00 isn't so bad if you break it
down. It translates into:
* $8,896.66 a year,
* $741.38 a month,
* $171.08 a week.
* A mere
$24.24 a day!
* Just over a dollar an hour.
Still, you might think the best financial advice is; don't have
children if you want to be 'rich.' Actually, it is just the opposite. What do you get for your $160,140.00?
* Naming rights. First, middle, and last!
* Glimpses of God every day.
* Giggles under the covers every
night.
* More love than your heart can hold.
* Butterfly kisses and Velcro hugs.
* Endless wonder over
rocks, ants, clouds, and warm cookies.
* A hand to hold usually covered with jelly or chocolate.
* A partner for
blowing bubbles and flying kites.
For $160,140.00, you never have to grow up. You get to:
* finger-paint,
* carve pumpkins,
* play hide-and-seek,
* catch lightning bugs,
* never stop believing in Santa Claus.
You have an excuse to:
* keep reading the Adventures of Piglet and Pooh,
* watch Saturday morning
cartoons,
* go to Disney movies, and
* wish on stars.
You get to frame rainbows, hearts, and flowers
under refrigerator magnets and collect spray painted noodle wreaths for Christmas, hand prints set in clay for Mother's
Day, and cards with backward letters for Father's Day. For a mere $24.24 a day, there is no greater bang for
your buck. You get to be a hero just for:
* retrieving a Frisbee off the garage roof,
* taking the training
wheels off a bike,
* removing a splinter,
* filling a wading pool,
* coaxing a wad of gum
out of bangs, and
* coaching a baseball team that never wins but always gets treated to ice cream regardless.
You get a front row seat in history to witness the:
* First step,
* First word,
* First bra,
*
First date,
* First time behind the wheel.
You get to be immortal. You get another branch added to your family
tree, and if you're lucky, a long list of limbs in your obituary called grandchildren and great grandchildren. You get an
education in psychology, nursing, criminal justice, communications, and human sexuality that no college can match. In
the eyes of a child, you rank right up there under God. You have all the power to heal a boo-boo, scare away the monsters
under the bed, patch a broken heart, police a slumber party, ground them forever, and love them without limits, so one
day they will, like you, love without counting the cost. That is quite a deal for the price! Love and enjoy
your children, grandchildren, or great-grandchildren. It's the best investment you'll ever make!
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