Includes bibliographical references and index.

Milk (and terror) -- The nursery school playground (and well-informed futility) -- The grocery list (and the ozone hole) -- Pizza (and ecosystem services) -- The kitchen floor (and national security) -- Asthma (and intergenerational equity) -- The big talk (and systems theory) -- Homework (and frontiers in neurotoxicology) -- Eggs (and sperm) -- Bicycles on Main Street (and high-volume slickwater hydraulic fracturing). Explores the social, political, and ecological forces behind key things and moments in every kid's childhood, arguing that parents should consider environmental issues an integral part of family life.