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Healthy Children Healthy Homes

Six Ways to Protect Your Children From Toxic Chemicals

Exposure to common lawn care pesticides is an unacceptable danger for children. The E.P.A. identifies pesticide risks to children as causing a range of health problems that include asthma, hyperactivity and behavior problems, cancer, learning disabilities, reproductive disorders, and compromised brain development.

Your decision to stop using pesticides not only benefits your immediate family, but your pets, neighbors, and wildlife in our community.

  1. Discontinue the use of all pesticides on lawns. Children are uniquely vulnerable to pesticide exposure because they spend more time playing outdoors on the grass and indoors on carpeting where lawn chemicals have been brought in on shoes.
  2. Keep all pesticides, herbicides, and insecticides out of children's sight and reach.
  3. Instruct your garden care professional to STOP using these toxic chemicals and change to a natural, pesticide-free lawn and garden.
  4. Buy local, organic fruits and vegetables, and thoroughly wash all produce.
  5. Work with school administration to eliminate pesticides from the school environment.
  6. Encourage good habits, such as washing hands after playing outdoors and taking shoes off at the door.

Healthy Children Healthy Homes Mission Statement

Healthy Children Healthy Homes is a national non-profit whose mission is to inform parents, and all those concerned with the welfare of children, about preventable health and developmental problems caused by exposure to toxic substances in homes, schools and communities and to encourage the public to take action to protect children against these toxic threats. (310) 820-2030
12300 Wilshire Blvd.
Suite 410
Los Angeles, CA 90025
www.healthychild.org