Tips for PTA® Healthy Lifestyles MonthSM
 November is PTA® Healthy Lifestyles MonthSM, and PTA provides parents a wealth of information on how to promote healthy lifestyle choices.
Parents can download PTA Healthy Lifestyles: A Parent’s Guide as well as a toolkit developed in partnership with celebrity chef Jamie Oliver at PTA.org/goodchoices. Both resources provide tips to parents on how to eat healthy and stay active as a family. The Parent’s Guide is also available in Spanish.
Parents can also tell their PTAs about the resources available for
local units to promote healthy lifestyles in schools. It’s not too late
for a unit to get started. A promotional toolkit is also available at PTA.org/goodchoices.
November Safety Tip
Fiber One Bars Recalled
National PTA®
and Consumer Reports have partnered to provide you with monthly safety
tips and product recalls alerting you of possible dangers in your school
or home.
General Mills has issued a recall of their Chocolate Flavor Fiber One
90-Calorie Chewy Bars after a production error resulted in a limited
number of improperly labeled individually wrapped bars. Consumers
allergic to peanuts should not consume Fiber One 90-Calorie products
from five-count boxes bearing the “Better If Used By” date of
“19May2012BV” on top of the box. For more information on these recent
food recalls and for more safety information go to ClickCheckandProtect.org.
PTA Issues Call for Convention Presenters
 Proposals Due November 30, 2011
National PTA has issued a call for workshop presenters for the 116th Annual National PTA Convention and Exhibition in San Jose, California. If you or someone you know is interested in presenting a workshop go to the Call for Workshop Presenters page on PTA.org.
The National PTA Convention will be held at the San Jose McEnery
Convention Center. National PTA will offer 60 top-quality workshops
centered on six topic tracks, with 10 workshops per track. Each workshop
will last 90 minutes and focus on topics that advance PTA’s mission and
meet the needs and goals of the association and its members.
The convention attracts hundreds of PTA leaders from the United
States, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Virgin Islands, and Europe seeking new
ideas, tools, and inspiration to grow their PTAs. Attendees positively
influence school decisions and legislation affecting the well-being of
millions of children. When they leave the convention, attendees share
the valuable information they learned with their schools, communities,
and fellow PTA members.
PTA Responds to Negative Portrayal of PTA Members
On October 26, National PTA President Betsy Landers
issued a letter to Paul Lee, president of ABC Entertainment, to respond
to the network’s casting of PTA members in a negative light.
Recent episodes of the series “Desperate Housewives” and
“Suburgatory” used PTAs as a way to poke fun at the lives of some
families. Landers wrote that there are millions of families that are
fighting to ensure their children have a high quality education. She
stated that ABC should “educate its viewers about PTA, as well as the
significance and positive effects of family engagement.”
Landers also wrote that “As a major network with enormous reach, ABC
has a responsibility to its viewers and the American public to call
positive attention to everyday champions of children and the state of
education.”
PTA Proud National Sponsor Message
 Malt-O-Meal® Supports the National PTA Healthy Lifestyles Program
November
is PTA Healthy Lifestyles Month. Malt-O-Meal, a Proud National Sponsor
of PTA, is dedicated to providing families access to a great-tasting
breakfast that is easy on the wallet and the earth. Through PTA’s
Healthy Lifestyles initiative, and with Malt-O-Meal’s support, National
PTA has awarded grants to local units for implementing programs that
promote healthy lifestyles in the home, school, and community.
More than 20 million families start their mornings with a breakfast
that includes Malt-O-Meal cereal. Beginning each day with a bowl of
whole-grain cereal creates a diet high in nutrients, vitamins, and
minerals for great energy and endurance. Ready-to-eat cereal also has
fewer calories than almost any other breakfast option and is a great way
to incorporate whole grains into your diet. Malt-O-Meal hopes to
continue helping families make smarter choices and live healthier lives.
Malt-O-Meal has also launched the Bag The Box®
program that challenges consumers to change the way they think about
breakfast and how products—such as boxed cereal—can affect the
environment. For more fun facts on the impact cereal boxes have, check
out the video at BagTheBox.com.
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