Site Updates and Links

Site Updates

I’ve been reorganizing the site a bit lately with more streamlining to come. I’ve cleaned up the categories and reduced them to mere fraction of what they once were. I’m hoping this will make navigating the site a simpler task. I’ve listed the main categories in the navigation bar, so that by clicking each topic link, you’ll go to a page that lists all of the posts within that topic.

The new categories are

  • Chemicals: Anything related to toxic chemicals in food and products.
  • Do Good: This category covers posts featuring do-gooders or ways that we can all do more good in our daily lives.
  • Environment: Recycling, Reusing, Simplifying, Saving Electricity, Reducing Consumption — if it’s green, it’s here.
  • Food: Sustainable food. Eating organic, growing your own, farmer’s markets, avoiding pesticides, GMOs and more.
  • Reviews: A wide range of reviews from green products to money saving products to parenting products. And of course, books. I do love books.
  • Roundup: Often I find posts and articles from around the web that I’d like to share with you. I collect these in a “roundup.”

If you’re reading this by email or RSS, please click over to the site and let me know what you think.

Upcoming Review Series

For those of us who have children AND care about the environment, I think there’s nothing more important we can do than to raise our kids to be decent and kind human beings who are responsible and compassionate. As such, good parenting is important to me. I’m going to begin a series in which I review the Positive Parenting Solutions Online program. I plan to review it as I live it in hopes of providing all of you with a truthful and helpful assessment of the quality of the program. Stay tuned for tomorrow’s post for more information on this.

I realize that many of you are not parents and that for you, this series may not be of much interest. Because of this, I’m limiting the review posts to once a week, so there will still be content posted that’s relevant to everyone.

Now the links. . .

Cheat Sheet for Growing Organic Food Without a Garden from Healthy Child, Healthy World

Weekly Challenge: Shop Healthy from True Food Movement

How to Stock a Natural First Aid Kit from Simple Organic

Email Blunders

Hi Folks,

I have no idea why Feedburner seemed to randomly send out a post from May about National Biking Month. I’m not sure what went wrong. Hopefully the next post you receive in your inbox or in your feed reader will be more time-appropriate.

Stay tuned and thanks for your patience.

Beth

Reader Survey and Amazon Gift Card Giveaway

Update: The giveaway has ended, but you’re welcome to complete the survey if you’d like.

Happy New Year, everyone! I really appreciate all of the support at Smart Family Tips in 2009 and I want to make 2010 even better. I’ve created a very brief 8 question survey that I’d like you to complete. It will help me create better and more useful content for you in the year ahead.

The survey is completely anonymous (unless you want to enter the giveaway below) and should take only a few minutes of your time.

To encourage participation, I’m giving away a $25 Amazon.com gift card to one lucky survey respondent. If you want to enter the giveaway, simply provide your email address in the last question of the survey and I’ll contact you if you’re the winner. All email addresses will be deleted once the giveaway is complete.

Click here to take survey

Thank you again for reading and please, please, please take the survey!