Tag: taye diggs

  • How we can help Kellogg’s & Scholastic give families free books!

    1st day of school 2013

    Disclosure: As a Champion of #GreatStarts blogger, I am honored to partner with Kellogg’s in helping families (like mine) achieve great starts to their days. I am being compensated for my services for the length of the program.

    It’s the first day of school, here in Jersey (I know, it is kinda late, but the kids seemed okay wit-it!) which means my crew was up and ready to get out of the house by…wait…for…it…6:30, this morning.

    Aaaaaand, I couldn’t help but get all caught up in the tide of nervous energy flowing throughout the house.  

    I was showered, dressed, baked a loaf of pumpkin bread, and then a batch of pumpkin cookies (for good measure), rounding out the morning with 3 loads of laundry washed and folded by…get…this…before lunchtime!!!

    Okay, I lied:  the laundry isn’t folded…YET!!!…which means I should be crashing anytime now and when the kids get home.

    Before that happens, I want to tell you about how we’ve partnered with my friends at Kellogg’s and the equally awesome folks at Scholastic to help give families free books!

    On second thought, I’ll let my celebrity dad-friend and children’s book author Taye Diggs explain it (seriously, we spoke on the phone and everything!)  Why?!?  Well, I love his voice and he’s way prettier to look at:

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  • Share Breakfast with a Child During National Breakfast Week

    Growing up, my family was no stranger to hunger.  So, yes, it pains me to learn that nearly 1 in 5 kids across our communities go without breakfast, every day.  I am very proud to once again partner with KelloggsAction for Healthy Kids and Mr. Taye Diggs in the Share Breakfast effort to provide breakfasts to kids who might otherwise go without.   How?  By sharing ways in which you can help share breakfast with a child in need, too.  It’s really super-simple, promise:

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