My husband wants to make a sandbox for our young children. What type of wood should he use? I know it shouldnt be treated as that contains arsenic; but someone else told me to use cedar…and then a carperter told me cedar splinters are very hazardous. I want to make sure this sandbox is safe. [...]

Hi. My husband and I built a sandbox for our 19 month old and oddly enough we are having trouble finding certified sand to fill it. The local construction company carries Mason sand which I understand a lot of people use but I don’t know the difference. Does anyone have Mason sand in their kids [...]

Though not as successful as What’s Up, Doc? or The Way We Were, Up the Sandbox springs from the early 1970s, when Barbra Streisand’s career was in full stride. Streisand stars as Margaret, a stay-at-home mom in the middle of New York who’s feeling the strain of her narrow life. [...]

I found out there were small metal flecks in my children’s colored sand and had my husband remove it all.