This guide to eco-friendly parenting is expertly organized and filled with practical advice, definitive explanations, and imaginative ideas. Addressing the key environmental issues faced by parents of young children today, it takes a straightforward approach to such urgent concerns as lead-painted toys, the risks and benefits of vaccinations, antibiotics, and vitamins, the potential side effects of plastic bottles and containers, how to manage food allergies and avoid fat- and sugar-filled snacks and much more.