ABOUT MHR
My Healthy Reader (MHR) creates personalized
lesson stories and other custom resources, with
narratives in English and Spanish, and incorporating
American Sign Language (ASL) and animation. These
engaging tools are designed to foster meaningful
learning experiences.
Our approach improves language and literacy
skills and promotes cognitive development. By
empowering young children through reading, we
encourage effective communication and help
children enhance their focus, manage impulses,
and develop essential social skills.
Our resources are thoughtfully designed to promote
literacy while integrating elements that teach health
and wellness, help advance academics, increases
social-emotional development and includes
interactive activities, to ensure that learning is both
fun and engaging for children.
MHR Featured Lesson Story Characters
My Healthy Reader frequently features both The Seed Pals and the O’Beast characters throughout our lesson stories and supporting resources.
The Seed Pals are a vibrant group of five characters, each representing a diverse cultural background. From left to right below, we have Nito, A.K., Mo, Jaylee, and Fawn, symbolizing Hispanic, Caucasian, African American, Asian American, and Native American Indian cultures. Yet having the ability to resonate with children from all ethnicities.
The Seed Pals serve as role models aimed at raising awareness to prevent childhood issues such as obesity, bullying, and social-emotional challenges. The Seed Pals can play a crucial role in facilitating conversations that may be difficult or sensitive between children and their parents or educators.
Throughout the MHR resources, the Seed Pals are instrumental in promoting and encouraging children to make healthy choices, cultivate positive relationships, and lead healthy lifestyles. Each lesson, resource, and activity plants a S.E.E.D. (Social Empowerment & Effective Development), nurturing healthy habits as children progress.
Like many other storybooks that have a hero (The Seed Pals), there is also a "villain“. The O’Beast has been created to assume that role, yet not as a frightening adversary, instead as a sneaky one.
The O’Beast represents “temptation” and uses his trickery to entice and influence inactivity and poor eating habits that create unhealthy behaviors among young children. The O’Beast stays prepared with his stash of unhealthy treats, eager to pursue his mission towards leading children down the path of obesity and other related health issues, which can leave affects that support the meaning of “obesity is a monster.”
However, his plans are consistently foiled by the Seed Pals, who are well-acquainted with his tricks and antics. Working together, the Seed Pals block the tactics of the O’Beast and empower children with the knowledge to adopt healthy choices and behaviors, to avoid and overcome the influence of temptation.
