Parent Handbook Update

Last week I worked on developing the cover for the Parent Handbook. The one selected to build upon is below:



You can find the other concepts in a PDF by clicking here.

While showing these covers to my advisor, the conversation turned to this idea of how "Eat & Act" relates to Simon. Questions like "What is Eat & Act?" were asked. So I was asked to think about these things this week.

I've always seen Eat & Act as the name of a program who's purpose is to get parents talking to their children about healthy lifestyle habits. Simon is the way in which Eat & Act will go about achieving that goal.

Essentially Simon is a creation of Eat & Act.

For me, Eat & Act was never an organization. For lack of a better explanation, let's just say that Eat & Act is a fictional program of healthy lifestyle priorities developed by a group of doctors, dieticians, and concerned parents to educate and empower parents to get them to talk to their kids about those healthy lifestyle habits. Simon Bean is a character created to pass on the information parents can learn from the Eat & Act Parent Handbook to their children in a fun way.

It's true that, I've developed the Simon Books and character in a way that a parent wouldn't HAVE to possess the handbook to use the Simon books successfully, but it lays out a full scope of what the Healthy Priorities attached to the Simon Books mean and why a parent should adopt them into their family's lifestyle.

This explanation always made sense in my head, it seemed to make sense to my advisor. I just hope it makes sense to my Thesis final review committee.

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