Little Things Matter: The Impact of Toxins on the Developing Brain


The Canadian Environmental Health Atlas has been studying the impact of toxins on children for the past 30 years and reached the inescapable conclusion: little things matter. We’ve discovered that extremely low levels of toxins can impact brain development. We have also discovered that subtle shifts in the intellectual abilities of individual children have a big impact on the number of children in a population that are challenged or gifted. Steps should be taken to reduce children's exposure to toxins or suspected toxins.

Farm to Table to Farm

Today the children had a blast planting their non-GMO papaya breakfast in the garden!  :)  They collected the seeds, de-skinned the seeds, learned about top soil and filled the pots, and planted the seeds!










Purple Sweet Potato Patch (Non-Gmo)

Today the children proudly planted a non-genetically modified (non-GMO) purple sweet potato patch!


*a note from uncle bison:
Moms and Dads please remember that if chemical agriculture corporations like Monsanto Pioneer Dow and DuPont genetically engineer and patent these potatoes we may not be able to do this again without paying a lot of money, wearing hazmat suits, and spraying deadly chemicals on them due to their genetic modification.  We would also be risking getting sued and losing our business.

Because I love life, people, you & your children & I think it’s wrong to patent life and use un-relaible science to push the use of known toxins proven to be harmful to humans.

Chemical agriculture / biotech has already made it almost impossible for your children and KHP or any family on the north shore to grow corn, sunflowers, arugula & some other crops they have patents on since pollen can drift for miles and the now endangered bumblebees, monarch butterflies & other pollinators will contaminate our organic seed crops giving these chemical agriculture corporations the right to pull our crops and sue us since they can't sue the wind or bumblebees.

Genetic engineering of food crops has been a stealth technology, introduced with little public debate and arriving on grocery shelves unlabeled.
I take no position regarding genetic engineering done in labs or in indoor manufacturing of pharmaceuticals. But common sense should warn us that commercial development of out-of-doors applications in the absence of environmental safeguards is a prescription for disaster.
I oppose the out-of-doors deployment of genetic technologies because the genes are free - as free as pollen on the wind - to invade nature, and because once this has happened they can't be recalled.

Sincerely,

Uncle Bison

#hawaii  #gmogroundzero  #nogmo  #savehawaii  #stopthepoisoning

Daily Experiences

Caregivers at Ka Hana Pono Daycare facilitate learning by inspiring each child’s genuine curiosity and providing the proper balance of guidance and freedom. 

By building a foundation of loving playfulness and giving each child respect and responsibility, independent choices can be made that inspire the child.

In addition, Ka Hana Pono Daycare’s focus on Nature, the Environment and Creative Arts offers an enhancement to the basic methods of learning & early childhood experiences.

http://www.kahanaponodaycare.com/#!experiences/con8



“Every student can learn, just not on the same day, or the same way.”

“Every student can learn, just not on the same day, or the same way.”
- George Evans
 














Good Morning Beautiful


"Oh Happy Day!"


Happy Aloha Monday :)










The Letter B is for...


Bubbles
(Tune: Twinkle, Twinkle)
Bubbles floating all around (pretend to catch bubbles)
Bubbles fat and bubbles round (make a big circle w/arms)
Bubbles on my toes and nose (point to toes; point to nose)
Blow a bubble. ..up it goes! (pretend to blow bubble; point up)
Bubbles floating all around. (pretend to catch bubbles)
Bub. . .bles fall. ..ing to...the...ground. (sing slowly & sink to ground)








Stop & Smell the Lilikoi Flowers


Aloha Asher!

We're happy to welcome Noah's little brother Asher to Ka Hana Pono!! :)