Our Journey Into Gentle Living With Our Home
It’s hard to enter the gentle parenting ‘world’ without also rethinking the way you treat your health and the health of the environment around you.
I like to think that my husband and I were conscious of sustainable living and healthy eating waaaay before we had kids. But when I became pregnant with our first child in 2012, we really launched ourselves into ‘learning’ mode and began to truly look at the products we consumed on a daily basis… how they impacted our health, and how the use of them impacted our environment. It’s amazing how the addition of one small human can shift your world so much… how you can go from being so egocentric to then thinking of lives you won’t even be around to see 100 years down the road. What kind of world am I leaving for my kids? What kinds of policies am I voting on now that will impact the health and well-being of the earth and my children and my children’s children?
It’s these thoughts that led us to begin removing harmful chemicals from our home…as much as possible. It’s what led us to use cloth diapers and limit plastic dishes. It’s what led us to prioritize purchasing locally grown and/or organic whole foods. And it’s what led us to begin making many of our own body and home products such as deodorant, bug spray, all-purpose cleaner, hand soap, etc…