The Week of the Young Child

   The Week of the Young Child Celebration is a community event for children, parent's, educator's and others who are interested in helping children throughout the community. Vendors, entertainers, and all who have a passion for making a difference.  Mt. San Jacinto College sponsored this four hour celebration in San Jacinto last Saturday, April 17, 2010. It was a wonderful day. Our booth, created for promoting eating healthy, welcomed hundreds of visitors. Tiffiny, Maureen, and I actually put our ideas and preparation for this event into action within one week. We went from store to store in search of donations of fresh produce and produce seed to hand out to each child that walked through the booth. We gathered fliers, seeds and other needed supplies and we created a wonderful booth for promoting healthy nutrition. We created fun games to teach children recognize the difference between healthy and unhealthy foods. Each child walked in curious,  learned what healthy foods are, and left with a piece of real whole fruit to eat or take home.  Henry's in Hemet was our biggest contributor. They were the first to be asked and the first to say yes. Fresh and Easy donated multiple pieces of fresh fruit and Nutrilite gave us a generous amount of seeds and educational materials to hand out. We are thankful to all of those who chose to participate in our cause for promoting a healthy and nutritious diet for children and their families. We believe that it is necessary to teach our children, as well as ourselves the importance of nutrition. The three of us hope to spread awareness of the benefits of eating healthy and why it is vital to our growing children to live healthy lives....