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Raising Healthy Eaters in an Unhealthy World
September 26, 2015
RVA Parents Forum Series To Help Parents Start the Conversation
Today, nearly one-in-three children are overweight or obese, facing a future with possible chronic obesity-related health problems like heart disease, high blood pressure, cancer, and asthma. According to LetsMove!, a comprehensive initiative launched by First Lady, Michelle Obama, childhood obesity rates in America have tripled over the past three decades. Parents and caregivers play a key role in not only making healthy choices for their children but also in teaching them how to make healthy choices for themselves.The increasing presence of high sugar and highly processed foods in today’s world presents numerous challenges in communicating to children the value of healthy eating habits and in cultivating those behaviors.Join Commonwealth Parenting on Thursday, October 15th as Dr. Melanie Bean, an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Psychology at Children’s Hospital of Richmond at Virginia Commonwealth University, discusses normative eating behaviors in preschool and elementary school aged children and highlights strategies parents can use to promote healthy eating behaviors, which can successfully reduce the power struggles surrounding food and enhance the benefit of healthy choices.
Raising Healthy Eaters in an Unhealthy World will be the first topic being presented as part of Commonwealth Parenting’s 2015-2016 RVA Parents Forum Series, which will unite experts and family educators with parents to address challenging parenting issues – ranging from parenting young adults to understanding the middle school brain.
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What: Raising Healthy Eaters in an Unhealthy World
When: Thursday, October 15, 2015
Time: 6:30PM
Location: Children’s Museum of Richmond – Central location
$30 per class/$150 for series of 6. Cost includes dinner, class, parenting experts, and interactive Q&A session. Babysitting is available, reservations required Please call 804-545-1272.
About the Series. In 2013, Commonwealth Parenting merged with the Children’s Museum of Richmond to combine the Museum’s hands-on learning experience & early education knowledge with Commonwealth Parenting’s expertise in parent education. Together and stronger than ever, CMoR and Commonwealth Parenting are helping children and their families grow and learn together.
Upcoming Forums:
When: What:
October 15th – 6:30 pm
“Raising Healthy Eaters in an Unhealthy World”
November 19th – 6:30 pm
“Surviving the Transition to Adulthood: We Made it to 18 – Now What?”
January 21st – 6:30 pm
“Parenting Through Divorce”
Where: TBD
Cost: $30 per class/$150 for series of 6. Cost includes dinner, class, parenting experts, and interactive Q&A session. Babysitting is available, reservations required. Please call 804-545-1272
The Children’s Museum of Richmond now has four locations, CMoR Central at 2626 West Broad Street in Richmond; CMoR Short Pump, located in Short Pump Town Center at 11800 West Broad Street in Glen Allen, CMoR Chesterfield at 6629 Lake Harbour Drive in Midlothian and CMoR Fredericksburg at 1275 Jefferson Davis Highway in Fredericksburg. The Children’s Museum of Richmond has been serving the community since 1981 with the mission to create innovative learning experiences for all children and those who support them that inspire the next generation of creative problem solvers.
In 2013, Commonwealth Parenting merged with The Children’s Museum of Richmond to combine the Museum’s hands-on learning experience & early education knowledge with Commonwealth Parenting’s expertise in parent education. Together and stronger than ever, CMoR and Commonwealth Parenting are helping children and their families grow & learn together.
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Today, nearly one-in-three children are overweight or obese, facing a future with possible chronic obesity-related health problems like heart disease, high blood pressure, cancer, and asthma. According to LetsMove!, a comprehensive initiative launched by First Lady, Michelle Obama, childhood obesity rates in America have tripled over the past three decades . Parents and caregivers play a key role in not only making healthy choices for their children but also in teaching them how to make healthy choices for themselves.The increasing presence of high sugar and highly processed foods in today’s world presents numerous challenges in communicating to children the value of healthy eating habits and in cultivating those behaviors.Join Commonwealth Parenting on 
