Originally written May 24, 2015 Updated (just the images!) December 2, 2019 Today is my birthday; I’m 57 years old. I mention this not to solicit “Happy Birthday” e-mails – but to illustrate there is not a single day that goes by in our life where Lead poisoning and its impacts are not omnipresent and…
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For those new to the Lead Safe Mama 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 four sons were acutely Lead-poisoned in 2005). Tamara owns and runs Lead Safe Mama,…
Originally Posted: January 29, 2015 David “Avi” Benjamin Rubin is ten years old today.These have been the most challenging ten years of my life. In August 2005 Avi was just seven-months old when he was poisoned by the work of painting contractor who did not use lead-safe work practices in preparing the exterior of…
“Visiting my mother – To get the boys away from their negative/ destructive routines and habits and address some of their physical and mental health issues…Day 6” Today was probably one of my most challenging days of parenting – but I learned so much (and will probably need to expound upon this when I am…