Your guide to activities and fun things to do with your preschoolers, toddlers and kids in atlanta, GA

National Eating Disorders Week & an Interview with Emme

February 23, 2009

Emme is working with Yale University's Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity to educate our country about weight bias, weight discrimination and wants to share with you helpful ways to teach your children about the harmful effects of weightbias and how to support a child in your life who is the victim of such a horrible experience.

Savvy Source - What exactly is weight bias? Why is it such a growing problem in the US? 

Emme - The issue with childhood obesity is that it has doubled in the past 20 years.  30% of adults are obese.  1 in 5 children are overweight.  The obesity rate in teenagers has tripled in the last 20 years.  If you read the studies that are being done you realize that children who are obese have the same type of feeling as a child going through cancer treatments. 

They get mobbed, they get verbally assaulted by their parents, other friends, coaches, teachers.  To think that these kids are walking around, having to deal with this? It is vitally important that government take it past just talking about.  Nothing is really being done behind the scenes.

Savvy Source - Yale University's Rudd Center has recently produced two videos.  What do you hope the videos will accomplish in the fight against weight bias?

Emme - Exactly what we're doing right now.  We're talking to ... (to read the rest of the interview, please visit Being Savvy Cleveland )

Guest Post: Potty Training Power authors, Sean & Cindy Platt

by Mimi Jenkins

January 23, 2009

Today we are going to discuss Potty Training. That job we get as parents to get out of the diapers and into the bathroom. I don't know about you, but it is one of my least favorite responsibilities as a parent. Not that changing diapers or pullups is fun, but potty training just seems so ... I don't know ... time consuming? Here to help are Sean and Cindy  Read more...

"The Big Picture" - Preschool style...

by Mimi Jenkins

January 06, 2009

If there is one thing my kids have helped me understand, it's that they are their own little people, with their own personalities and ideas. And the two of them could not be more different. But they do have some things in common and that's what is really important to them and what really isn't. I had all these ideas about how I would raise my kids and what I would do... As the boys get  Read more...

Five Fab Toys for the Kids on Your Christmas List

by Mimi Jenkins

December 02, 2008

Now that I know you know about some of the great book reviews Savvy has, it's time to introduce you to the toys.  With Christmas just around the corner, check out the massive database of educational toys that Savvy has already reviewed for ideas on what to get any child on your list.  Here are a few of our family favorites.... Geotrax Rail and Road Grand Central Station :  Both the  Read more...

Reinforcing Preschool at home

by Mimi Jenkins

November 10, 2008

Both my kids absolutely love school. My second grader, Josh, has loved it from the moment he first attended preschool when he was three. His little brain was just a sponge ready to soak up any extra information he could get. Sam, my three year old (who will be four tomorrow! Yikes how time flies)... well if I'm honest, this is the first year he's really enjoyed going to school. When he  Read more...

I Idbid, do you Idbid?

by Mimi Jenkins

September 08, 2008

I was at a book signing this weekend at the Beehive Co-Op in Buckhead (very cute store, more on that later), and was fortunate enough to win one of the door prizes. It was an Idbid toy. Idbids LLC is an Atlanta based company that teaches kids: "iddy biddy steps make a biggie big difference in keeping our Earth happy, healthy and green. There are three Idbid toys all  Read more...