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PreschoolJuly 2012 BRONX/RIVERDALE FREE Family Guide Where Every Child Matters Healthy fats for kids Overcoming the stigma of food allergies Dangers in food dyes Find us online at www.NYParenting.com Bronx/Riverdale Family July 2012 12 10 FEATURES COLUMNS 6 A conversation with Rain Pryor 8 Mommy 101 The famous daughter talks about her childhood, her BY ANGELICA SERADOVA child, and her new Off-Broadway show BY TAMMY SCILEPPI 22 Healthy Living BY DANIELLE SULLIVAN 24 10 ‘I can’t eat that’ Helping your child overcome the stigma associated 23 The Book Worm with having a food allergy BY TErrI SCHLICHENMEYER BY JOAN SCHMIDT 24 Dear Dr. Karyn 12 Give your preschooler an edge BY Dr. KARYN GORDON Strategies to help him read his world 30 New & Noteworthy BY MICHELE RANARD, MED The hottest new products 18 Eat fat to be healthy? BY SANDRA GORDON CALENDAR OF EVENTS 20 A better diet can improve behavior Why food dyes should make a parent see red 26 Going Places BY JANE HErsEY Take the family out and find out what’s going on in your town SPECIAL SECTIONS 9 Health Directory 30 14 Preschool Directory Letter from the publisher Health is the buzz alk of health is tor for all Americans. place? Are we making our own just doesn’t come naturally, and everywhere. Our There is little doubt baby food in a blender with fresh what other important responsible T national focus on that maintaining good ingredients or buying jars of food thing do we do in our lives without the President’s Health health is more in our with sugar and other additives? education and certification? Care Initiative has been hands than in our doc- Do we read the labels or are we As we live longer we must find tying up the conversa- tors’. Our behavior and careless? the secrets of staying in good health tion and hopefully with choices, for ourselves It’s a big responsibility to be a for a lifetime that increases with the recent Supreme and our children, ei- parent. It’s being the CEO and CFO every generation. Good health; a Court decision we can ther create the founda- of our families’ corporation, and path from day one that parents can move on and do what’s tion for a healthy life or running the company is a big deal do their utmost to provide for the necessary to implement succumb to the risks of and takes planning, education and new life that’s been entrusted to universal coverage. The truth is that unnatural elements. determination. So we should see their care and supervision. Let’s we need it because people are not in This issue focuses on health and “red” when we think there are food take it seriously. good health. particularly on food, diet and vita- dyes in our kids’ food. We should Thanks for reading and enjoy My contention is that over 60 mins and their role in keeping us understand that not all fats are to the summer! years of processed foods, along healthy and vital. As parents, we be avoided and that good fats are with other pollutants in our air set the tone and the patterns for necessary for good health. and water, has affected the general our families. We determine what’s This issue continues what will health in disastrous ways, and when on the menu from the very begin- definitely be ongoing for us in our more people realize that we truly ning. Are there going to be fresh editorial effort; to recognize and “are what we eat and drink,” there fruits and vegetables in the fridge focus on the complex factors that Susan Weiss-Voskidis, will be a surge in general health and on the plates, or are we order- comprise good health. 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July 2012 • BRONX/RIVERDALE FAMILY 5 parentingA proud member magazines of PMA and websites. sFAMILYADVERTISING-ETRO4ECH#ENTER.ORTH TH&Ls"ROOKLYN .9 CNGLOCALCOM AuditedParenting byMedia CAC Association. and CVC sFAMILYADVERTISING CNGLOCALCOM Audited by CAC and CVC An InternationalA proud member trade assoc. of PMA of regional parenting magazines and websites. -ETRO4ECH#ENTER.ORTH TH&Ls"ROOKLYN .9 Parenting Media Association. sFAMILYADVERTISING CNGLOCALCOM An InternationalAudited by trade CAC assoc. and of CVC regional parenting magazines and websites. -ETRO4ECH#ENTER.ORTH TH&Ls"ROOKLYN .9 sFAMILYADVERTISING CNGLOCALCOM Audited by CAC and CVC ENTERTAINMENT A conversation with Rain Pryor The famous BY TAMMY SCILEPPI ain Pryor is a loving, daughter talks hands-on mom, a dy- R namic jazz singer, an author, and the star of a about her one-woman show. Oh, yeah, and she inherited her father, childhood, comedian Richard Pryor’s, funny-gene. her child, The 43-year-old, award- winning actress and author of “Jokes My Father Never and her new Taught Me: Life, Love, and Loss with Richard Pryor,” Off-Broadway had a rocky road to fame. And her fortune, she hopes, show will come in time. Living in Baltimore, Md., for the past seven years, (At left) Rain and her father, comedian Richard Pryor. (At right) The star peforming in “Fried Pryor has been focusing Chicken and Latkes.” on her 4-year-old daughter, Lotus Marie, and the mommy experience has been so rewarding, but below the tracks, where the not religious, but spiritual — more she wants to share it with other poor-rich people lived. My mom is of a mystic — there’s no doctrine parents while speaking candidly the most dynamic and complicated or dogma here. My maternal grand- from the heart. woman I know. She raised me at a father passed away last year and it New Yorkers who haven’t seen time when the world wasn’t ready was a devastating blow for me. Herb her in action will have an opportu- for a mixed-race child and she had Bobis was more than my grandpa, nity to enjoy her re-energized, ir- many obstacles to overcome. She he was like a father. My bubbe reverent, and heartfelt one-woman felt like a black woman trapped is almost 91 and is like a mother show, “Fried Chicken and Latkes,” in a Jewish woman’s body. School to me. Mama Ritchie Marie Carter when it heads back to Off-Broad- was difficult.