Sept 18: Don’t miss the 2016 Healthy Kids Fest!

Families in the Philadelphia region, don't miss out on the upcoming Healthy Kids Fest on September 18th for an exciting day of fun, facts, and fitness at the Please Touch Museum. You'll be able to ask some of our Healthy Kids blog writers your questions related to health and parenting!

Presented by Philadelphia Media Network, the publisher of The Inquirer, Daily News and Philly.com, you will experience the fun exhibits at the Please Touch Museum, an expo of health and wellness resources, and kid-friendly, interactive workshops including children's entertainment from Makin' Music Rockin' Rhythms. With the Zucchini 500, brought to you by pucciManuli and Lulu's Casita, kids will have the opportunity to build their very own race car using fruits and veggies, and watch the power of real "fast food" as they race their creations down the track while learning what it takes to fuel their bodies.

Here is the current schedule of events:

11:00 a.m.: Registration, museum play, and expo
11:15 a.m. – 2:45 p.m.: Imagination Station Interactive Children's Workshops (Four 30-minute workshops.)
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.: Philly.com "Healthy Kids" blogger panel discussion with the contributors below. Meet past and present bloggers who represent the best institutions in our region discussing big issues in their practices and what's trending in children's health care.

Philly.com "Healthy Kids" Panel Members:
Charlotte Sutton, Health and Science Editor, The Philadelphia Inquirer (moderator)
Alfred Atanda Jr., MD, Center for Sports Medicine, Nemours Children's Health System. Atanda will have a blog running in Health Kids this Friday about preventing injury overuse.
Katherine K. Dahlsgaard, PhD, lead psychologist of The Anxiety Behaviors Clinic Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Dahlsgaard will have a blog running tomorrow about kids and homework, and she's recently written about post-traumatic stress disorder and exercise as treatment for teens with depression.
Gary A. Emmett, MD, Thomas Jefferson University, has been with the University for 44 years and will soon be retiring. He can comment on a variety of pediatric topics. His recent blogs include why docs should consider 'firing' vaccine hesitators and if kids should be tested for high cholesterol.
Rima H. Himelstein, MD, Crozer-Chester Medical Center and Springfield Hospital, specializes in teen health issues. Her recent blog posts include how extreme obesity has tripled among teens and if girls' breasts are blocking their sports participation.
Anita Kellerman Kulick, president and CEO of Educating Communities for Parenting and Pennsylvania Parenting Coalition, is the go-to expert when it comes to parenting. Most recently, she's written about talking to your kids about racism and thinking before you parent shame.

The panelists will take questions during a Q&A session during the session. You can also submit your questions early by sending them to healthykids@philly.com.

Tickets:
A family four pack is $40, which includes access to the museum and festivities. Individual tickets are $15 each, which also include access to museum and festivities. To get discounted tickets, you need to purchase them online by Friday, September 16. Walk ups are subject to standard museum ticket rate of $17 per person and additional event fee of $5.

Once again, here are the details: the Healthy Kids Fest on Sunday, September 18, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Please Touch Museum. Tickets are available at www.philly.com/kidsfest.

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