Food Allergy Fun: Singing, Dancing and Educating

Kyle’s music hererocked it out last Friday with our food allergic kids! I was expecting some silly fun and light food allergy education. Instead, it was one hour that felt like minutes, of singing dancing, stomping, clear concise educating and flat out fun. Best of all, I truly felt our food allergic children were being empowered and felt a camaraderie. It was actually kind of cool to be the food allergic kid that night.  I learned a lot that night actually.

The Kyle’s music here performance was just amazing regarding how it impacted the kids. I saw kids who I would have laid down cash betting that they will not participate since they know everything about food allergies already or they are too old and cool. Nope. This was not the case.  This is what I learned that night…
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• Food Allergic Kids want to feel and be normal.
• Older kids just want to be kids…not pop stars, not acting cool, just kids enjoying a free and easy hour of song and fun.
• Focusing on just few food allergy points has value that goes on for miles and miles

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For the first time in ages, I felt normal and I think every child with food allergies felt normal!  I had my AHA moment when I watched the kids respond to Kyle‘s focus on wearing a Kyle  bracelet or necklace and carrying an Epi Pen®.  Here is the cool young man, playing music, traveling the world, making CD’s and wearing a very hip looking Kyle , what kid is not attracted to that?  He was a great role model as he invited the children into his life as he sang original songs, they danced and confirmed that life can be grand when living with food allergies.

Kyle was so cool and easy for the older kids to related that they participated 100%!  They strummed inflatable guitars or sang into inflatable microphones and danced openly and freely.  When I say older kids, am referring to 4th-6th grade.  They were simply fabulous.   They weren’t dancing to the latest Disney star, but to our own secret food allergy rock star with such honesty and sweetness.  I enjoyed watching them the most to be honest.  You can listen toKyle Dine (he sells his CD’s too).

The performance was well-organized and took appropriate pauses to discuss what allergens are and to cover the major allergens.  Kyle gently reviewed the  importance of carrying epinephrine as he showed off his epinephrine carrier that he wore during the show.  In addition, to flashing his über cool Kyle  leather cuff and why and how it was important to his safety.

The only reason we were so lucky for Medic Alert to come by and provide a performance for our food allergy and asthma parent education group, was thanks to a school district in California receiving a grant for Kyle to host school assemblies to help educate all kids regarding food allergies.  He was just down the hill a few hours and the timing worked out great.  He offers school assemblies and private support group performances and for some reason, I think I saw a photo of him at a shopping mall!  His website is quite simple:  .  I just read on his site that you can place an order for Kyle to sing a song dedicated to your child for only $30 (Canadian currency).  He lived in Canada and recently moved to Slovenia and but come to North America twice per year.

Thank you Kyle’s music here, Food Allergy Musician and Educator, for a memorable performance in Reno, NV!

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