Today I’m pleased to have my first guest blogger, Louis Yuhasz, founder of Louie’s Kids. I met Louis only a week ago when he spoke at the Junior League Mid-Atlantic Conference and his speech about watching his morbidly obese father’s decline after having a stroke, and then how he and his organization work with kids and their families today to change not only the numbers on the scale, but their attitudes toward food, toward exercises, and toward themselves through nutritional counseling, exercise programs, mental counseling and mentoring, was inspiring and life-changing. He’s a man on a mission and you can’t help but get swept away when you listen to him. Today, DC Metro Moms is having a special “Topic Tuesday” about Children of the Recession, and you will find my own post listed there. I’ve asked Louis to write about his organization and about the challenges the kids he work with face during the recession.
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Running a non-profit organization that works with kids struggling with obesity is certainly not easy, but there are many instances when it comes with rewards.
Ready to roll with Word Power? Today’s Super WHY! activities are focused on using auditory or visual discrimination to create and decipher between all words.
A, B, C, D… sing with me! Yep, it’s time to break out the Super WHY! pre-assessment and Alpha Pig activities today!
If you have no clue what I’m talking about, jump back a post and catch up — we’re going on an interactive journey with the characters of Super WHY! this week. AND… if you comment on the PBS-related posts this week, I will put your name into a drawing for a DVD (I’m awaiting its arrival, so I don’t have the title yet) from PBS. Yes, if you comment on more than one post, I will put your name in more than once.
So, let’s get started!
When Angela Santomero was a little girl, she’d lean into the TV set and she just
knew she was special, because
Mr. Rogers told her she was. And so did I. And I’m willing to bet, so did you.
We are the generation who learned our ABCs on PBS, and now our children are too, but they are learning so much more, so much faster, and Angela Santomero is one of the reasons why.
Maybe you don’t recognize her name… unless you happen to pay close attention to the credits of your children’s favorite shows. She is creator of Nick Jr.’s Blue’s Clues and creator, executive producer, and head writer of the award-winning PBS show, Super WHY! She has the Midas touch of children’s programming, so I jumped at the opportunity to peel back the layers at PBS headquarters May 6 and find out just what goes into putting together a show like Super WHY!
