March 2021 final Lead Safe Mama numbers: #9 (in the top 10) to date! 252,302 page views
March 30, 2021 — Tuesday Thank you friends for helping March 2021 to recover (especially compared to March 2020)! Remember, the goal is to reach a consistent 600,000 page views each month (7,200,000 page views each year) for this work to be fully self-sustaining (for all the costs of the work to be covered by…
March 2021 made it to the Top 10 best months of all time on the Lead Safe Mama website!
March 30, 2021- Tuesday Remember the goal is to reach a consistent 600,000 page views each month (7,200,000 page views each year) for this work to be fully self-sustaining. 2019 saw a total of 3,826,782 unique page views. 2020 saw a total of 3,034,670 page views. These represent significant increases over previous years (check out…
Happy Anniversary to my husband, Len!
Three Anniversaries! My husband and I get THREE anniversaries. 20 years ago on Erev Passover we had our first date… we met at a Passover seder at his house. He wasn’t home when we arrived but his dad was there waiting for us – so technically my son and I met my father-in-law-to-be before we…
OH the DRAMA! Kerfuffle with Erin Elizabeth & Dr. Mercola’s followers over Lead in Mercola’s pans & my husband’s choice to get the COVID-19 vaccination.
For those new to this website: Tamara Rubin is a multiple-federal-award-winning independent advocate for childhood Lead poisoning prevention and consumer goods safety, and a documentary filmmaker. She is also a mother of Lead-poisoned children (two of her sons were acutely Lead-poisoned in 2005). Since 2009, Tamara has been using XRF technology (a scientific method used…
In spite of the VACCINE controversy on our Facebook page (! GAH) LeadSafeMama.com just passed 9,000,000 all-time views!
March 26, 2021 – 10:02 p.m. This week has been amazing! Check out all the charts and graphs below, which illustrate the words that follow. While tonight alone the Lead Safe Mama Facebook page has lost over 400 “Likes” and “Followers” (due to the apparently controversial one-line post I wrote letting people know that my…
Today LeadSafeMama.com passed 166,500 page views for March (already better than March 2020 & still 10 days to go)! Baby steps.
Here’s today’s back-end stats for LeadSafeMama.com. Below the image, I will go over some of the exciting highlights 🙂 You can click on the image of the chart below to see it in full size if you like. March 21, 2021 — Lead Safe Mama Stats Highlights: All of March 2020 had only 166,134 page…
Is your child drinking out of their Grammy award? Is it safe? What every parent of a Grammy-winning child needs to know.
Scroll down to read the full XRF test results for a Grammy award statuette! For those new to this website: Tamara Rubin is a multiple-federal-award-winning independent advocate for childhood Lead poisoning prevention and consumer goods safety, and a documentary filmmaker. She is also a mother of Lead-poisoned children (two of her sons were acutely Lead-poisoned…
While I have been keeping busy dealing with my broken leg I’ve also managed to do THREE podcast interviews
Three recent podcast interviews with #LeadSafeMama Posted: March 16, 2021 I have met each of these women through Instagram and was invited to participate in their podcasts! It’s been a fun month. Please follow each of them on Instagram to show your support of their work AND check out their podcasts! Interview #1 — Gutsy Mom,…
Celebrating more milestones! On 3/14 the film passed 32,000 views on YouTube & the website passed 8,900,000 all-time views!
On Sunday, first, this happened… … and then this happened: Plus, earlier the same week (3/9) we passed 5,000 Instagram Followers!
The Environmental Institute Lead-Based Paint (LBP) Key Terms And Units Of Measure: March 2021
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Show your support! Other Lead Poisoning Prevention organizations and business to follow on Instagram!
Lead Poisoning Prevention on Instagram Here a list of clickable links to other Lead poisoning prevention organizations and businesses I have found on Instagram. Please show your support for the cause by following these accounts. If you have an account you would like me to add to this list, please let me know and I…
Lead Dust Sample Regulatory Levels – prepared by Michael Sharp. Update March 15, 2021
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Tuesday – March 9, 2021: An update on my Civil Rights case. Some excellent news & a request…
A new update on my legal case For those new here, here’s a bit of background: Back in August of 2019, I filed a lawsuit against the State of Oregon [in Federal court] for multiple counts of civil rights violations against me — violations that have directly interfered with my childhood Lead-poisoning prevention advocacy work (impacting…
File this under “stuff I bought for my family”: reusable glass water bottles
Introduction (for those new to this website): Tamara Rubin is a federal-award-winning independent advocate for consumer goods safety and a documentary filmmaker. She is also a mother of Lead-poisoned children, her sons were acutely Lead-poisoned in 2005. Since 2009 Tamara has been using XRF testing (a scientific method used by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission)…
File this under: “stuff I bought for my family” – The Joy of Cooking (hardcover).
Tuesday – March 2, 2021 I actually have bought TWO hardcover copies of the Joy of Cooking since the pandemic started! One was purchased for Avi (my 16 year old) since a primary learning activity for him during the pandemic has been teaching himself to cook. I then bought a second copy for my son…
File this under: “stuff I bought for my family” – glass digital bathroom scale…
Tuesday – March 2, 2021 I bought this glass digital bathroom scale for my family this past winter (when we were staying in Maine). It was very serviceable and came at a good price. I don’t have any concern for Lead in products like this (although if you use regular batteries – there is Lead…
File this under: “stuff I bought for my family” – organic cotton down comforters…
Tuesday – March 2, 2021 These are the organic cotton down comforters I bought for my family this winter. Our old comforters were purchased in 2015/2016 (from Costco) and are pretty worn out – so everyone needed a new one. We’ll see how long these last, but in the meantime the kids are very happy…
New post category on the Lead Safe Mama website: “stuff I bought for my family”…
Tuesday – March 2, 2021 I just created this new category of posts here on the Lead Safe Mama website – with simple posts with Amazon links to items I have purchased for use by my family. You can be sure anything I share in these posts has either been tested by me (for the…
File this under: “stuff I bought for my family” – electric pencil sharpener.
Tuesday – March 2, 2021 This is our absolute favorite pencil sharpener and we use it every day in our home (my 12-year old son Charlie uses colored pencils as his preferred art medium – so we usually sharpen pencils every day.) We bought our first one about 4 years ago and my son (A.J.)…
File this under: “stuff I bought for my family” – packing tape dispenser guns.
Tuesday – March 2, 2021 I got sick of arguing with my husband over which tape gun was mine and which was his (and “where the hell did the last person to use it put it?”)…. so I caved and bought some new tape guns this year. Now we each have our own and they…
File this under: “stuff I bought for my family” — clear glass mugs (Lead-free!)
Tuesday — March 2, 2021 I liked these so much I bought them twice! I bought a set for our home in Portland and bought a second set for my son’s apartment in Boston (for him to use in his college apartment with his roommates). These are my favorite mugs because not only are they…
File this under: “stuff I bought for my family” – Large format desk calendar / wall calendar
Tuesday – March 2, 2021 I really love paper calendars far too much. The bigger the better. Now that I also have a broken leg and am spending most of my time on the couch with my leg raised above my heart I wanted to make sure I got one I could easily read from…
File this under: “Stuff I bought for my family,” NSF-certified wire shelving units
For those new to this website: Tamara Rubin is a multiple-federal-award-winning independent advocate for childhood Lead poisoning prevention and consumer goods safety, and a documentary filmmaker. She is also a mother of Lead-poisoned children (two of her sons were acutely Lead-poisoned in 2005). Since 2009, Tamara has been using XRF technology (a scientific method…
File this under: “stuff I bought for my family” – dishwasher tabs (scent free, dye free)…
Tuesday – March 2, 2021 While we don’t currently have a dishwasher, I used to buy this brand when we did and I still buy these for my son (who is away at college.) My agreement with my kiddo (who is 18 and living in Boston in an apartment with four young music students) is…