Parent Action For Healthy Kids

The "choking game", what is it? It is not a comfortable topic to address but it does happen more than we realize. Attached is a nice, easy to read fact sheet about the "choking game" for parents. Near the end they say how risk taking is part of being an adolescent and then suggest activities that kids can engage in that are healthy.

Did you know the MyPlate icon has replaced MyPyramid image as the government's primary food group symbol? MyPlate is an easy to understand visual which shows how to build a healthy meal…including tips on balancing calories and what foods to increase and foods to decrease.

Information from USDA Center for Nutrition and Policy and Promotion:
 

There have been too many stories about normal, everyday teens whose lives have been changed forever by the click of a camera phone. Like the story of Jessica Logan from Cincinnati, Ohio who texted nude pictures of herself to a boyfriend. When the two broke up, the boyfriend texted the nude photos to girls at their high school. These girls harassed Jessica and called her a slut and a whore causing her to become depressed and afraid to go to school.

In May, 2008, Jessica told her story to the Today Show in an effort to “make sure no one else will have to go through this again.”  Two months later, at the age of 18, Jessica Logan killed herself in her bedroom.

I am so excited and proud to direct you to the First Lady's Let's Move website www.LetsMove.gov where you can benefit from all the great tools just released for parents.  You might recall that last March I was honored to be one of 10 people invited to Washington D.C.