http://www.kathrynthegrape.com/index.php/news en info@kathrynthegrape.com Copyright 2011 2011-11-30T19:50:08+00:00 http://www.kathrynthegrape.com/index.php/ktg_blog/comments/kathryn_the_grape_mom_talk_radio http://www.kathrynthegrape.com/index.php/ktg_blog/comments/kathryn_the_grape_mom_talk_radio#When:14:38:47Z Mom Talk Radio recently for the Mom's Roundtable segment. The show topic was "Simple Steps for Overall Wellness." I share a few of the ways I create space and time for myself so that I can be fully present with my family and my work.

Here is the link to listen to the entire show. The seven minute segment that I am part of starts at minute 26. Kathryn the Grape on MomTalk Radio

]]> 2013-06-13T14:38:47+00:00 http://www.kathrynthegrape.com/index.php/ktg_blog/comments/matalyn_featured_in_92129_magazine http://www.kathrynthegrape.com/index.php/ktg_blog/comments/matalyn_featured_in_92129_magazine#When:15:11:23Z 92129 Magazine for her work hosting Kathryn the Grape's Magical Hour, our weekly radio show on VoiceAmerica Kids and the Kidstar Radio Network. We are so proud of Matalyn and are thrilled with the inspiring work she is doing on the show each week.

Here is the link to the online version of the magazine. Matalyn's article is on page 24.
Matalyn and Kathryn the Grape's Magical Hour Featured in 92129 Magazine

]]> 2013-06-06T15:11:23+00:00 http://www.kathrynthegrape.com/index.php/ktg_blog/comments/san_diego_book_awards_finalist http://www.kathrynthegrape.com/index.php/ktg_blog/comments/san_diego_book_awards_finalist#When:17:52:28Z Kathryn the Grape's Piece of Love is a finalist in the San Diego Book Awards in the Children's Fiction & Picture Book category. This is particularly exciting as Kathryn lives in her native San Diego, and this is the first award nod for "Kathryn the Grape" from the San Diego Book Awards.

Award winners will be announced on Saturday, June 22nd. If you are in the area, we'd love to have you join us at this special event. To see the entire list of finalist, please click here.

]]> 2013-05-28T17:52:28+00:00 http://www.kathrynthegrape.com/index.php/ktg_blog/comments/kathryn_the_grapes_piece_of_love_receives_award_for http://www.kathrynthegrape.com/index.php/ktg_blog/comments/kathryn_the_grapes_piece_of_love_receives_award_for#When:17:44:47Z Official Press Release:

“KATHRYN THE GRAPE’S PIECE OF LOVE” RECEIVES AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE
Mom’s Choice Silver Award is Third for Affirmation Book Series



SAN DIEGO, May 15, 2013—Kandon Unlimited, Inc., bringing the magical and colorful world of Kathryn the Grape to life, announced today that the third book in its Affirmation Series, Kathryn the Grape’s Piece of Love, has been honored with a Silver Mom’s Choice Award, denoting it as one of the best in family-friendly media, products, and services. The 32-page book (ISBN 978-0-9829277-2-4), written by Kathryn Cloward and illustrated by Christine Winscott, communicates that we all have a “piece” to contribute to peace on our planet while teaching personal responsibility and sharing an embedded message of acceptance, unity, and diversity.

The previous books in the series, Kathryn the Grape Just Like Magic and Kathryn the Grape’s Colorful Adventure, also received Silver Awards, and the Kathryn the Grape music CD was honored with a Gold Award. While helping children develop authentic self-love and compassionate self-esteem is Cloward’s and Winscott’s priority, they also enjoy getting recognition from children’s book experts—including a five-star review from one of Amazon.com’s Top 50 Reviewers—and organizations like Mom’s Choice.

“Receiving this award for ‘Peace of Love’ is very exciting,” Winscott said. “We've worked so hard to make our series one that children truly love, and it’s icing on the cake to be approved by ‘Mom’s,’ too!”

One of the book’s many unique components is that real children inspired the 15 classmates introduced in the story; they were either invited to participate or selected from a character contest…and their real names are used. Things they do to help the planet or others are shared in the story, along with likenesses of them created by Winscott.

“It’s really important to me to include children in what we do,” Cloward said. “From singing on our music CD and hosting our weekly radio show to being in our videos and serving as characters in this book, I love empowering children through our messages as well as with unique opportunities they’ll remember, hopefully, for the rest of their lives.”

Kathryn the Grape’s Piece of Love and the first two books in the Affirmation Series are available for purchase at KathryntheGrape.com, Amazon.com, and other retail stores where books are sold. The fourth book, Kathryn the Grape’s Super Unique Party, will be released next year. Learn more about the full line of Kathryn the Grape merchandise, including the music CD, shirts, bags and bottles, at KathryntheGrape.com.

About Kandon Unlimited, Inc.
Kandon Unlimited is the parent company of Kathryn the Grape Company and Kandon Publishing, which have teamed to produce a series of books and music that provide children with the tools they need to help them develop authentic self-love and ripple loving kindness, acceptance, and compassion for others. The characters and symbolism in the Kathryn the Grape books and music illuminate young minds and put children on a path to live purposeful, magical, and colorful lives. Learn more and make purchases at KathryntheGrape.com.]]> 2013-05-15T17:44:47+00:00 http://www.kathrynthegrape.com/index.php/ktg_blog/comments/our_new_colorful_you_video http://www.kathrynthegrape.com/index.php/ktg_blog/comments/our_new_colorful_you_video#When:15:58:48Z ♥ KTG

]]> 2013-05-08T15:58:48+00:00 http://www.kathrynthegrape.com/index.php/ktg_blog/comments/shine_shine_shine_photos_needed http://www.kathrynthegrape.com/index.php/ktg_blog/comments/shine_shine_shine_photos_needed#When:18:52:06Z

I am giving a talk next week on ways to help your children SHINE their true colors, as taught in Kathryn the Grape's Colorful Adventure. I am putting together a photo montage video, which will be shown during my talk, and I would love to include your child in the video!

The photo montage video will be displayed along with our song "Colorful You," which is the song that shares the messages in the book. After my talk, I will post the video on our YouTube page and this website to share with the world.

If you would like to have your child/children included in this video, please complete the following:

1. Email me at info@kathrynthegrape.com with a photo of your child/children smiling their joyful smiles and/or doing what they love to do (baseball, dance, music, martial arts).
See below for examples.

2. Along with the photo, copy and paste the digital media waiver (information below) into the email. Replace the words written in bold with your name, child's name, and typed name as a digital signature.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS IS TUESDAY 4/30.
Yes, this is a quick turnaround. But I know you have a perfect photo of your child/children on your computer right now that you can email to me.

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MEDIA WAIVER AND RELEASE

I, {parent/legal guardian name}, hereby acknowledge that I am the legal guardian of

{type child full name}. (heretofore referred to as “Subject”)

By typing my name below, I give my full consent to allow Kandon Unlimited, Inc., dba Kathryn the Grape Company (“KU”) to publish any and all pictures, interviews, audio recordings, and/or videos of “Subject,” as well as sharing the “Subject’s” first name and last name, and the city/state he/she lives in. I give my full consent to allow “KU” to publish any information or images obtained from those activities through “KU”, and/or the public media for use in advertising, publicity or educational activities, including but not limited to websites, publications, videos, radio broadcasts, print, television news, and social media websites including but not limited to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and may also be used in any marketing materials offered by “KU” and its partners.

/your digital (typed) signature in caps/
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To give you an idea of what I am looking for here are four photos of my son, Landon.



Press the arrow to listen to Colorful You.


]]> 2013-04-24T18:52:06+00:00 http://www.kathrynthegrape.com/index.php/ktg_blog/comments/amazon_top_50_reviewer_give_kathryn_the_grape_five_stars http://www.kathrynthegrape.com/index.php/ktg_blog/comments/amazon_top_50_reviewer_give_kathryn_the_grape_five_stars#When:13:18:50Z Kathryn the Grape's Piece of Love.

Here are two of Grady Harp's quotes about our book:

"Christine Winscott keeps the pages full of vibrant color and instead of creating cartoon characters she sensibly employs images of the multiethnic children that are quite life like."

"This is one of those books that hopefully will reach a large section of school children especially in the wake of the chaos of the world that circulates around them in the media and in proximity. Kathryn Cloward is more than doing her part. We should all join...."



To read this review and the other posted reviews, please clickhere.







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I am a mother of a son. The messages that my son is exposed to about femininity and masculinity, matter to me greatly. I want him to know that it’s totally okay to wear purple if he wants to, and experience the freedom to cry unashamedly when he’s upset. I desire for him to know that some girls (like his own mother) have dreams that don’t include becoming a princess, and courageous and fearless women don’t usually carry swords or wear capes.

And what could easily be the most important point to make, I want him to understand that a cotton tracksuit is a fabulous choice of attire when seeking an outfit that ranks high on the scale of comfort and ease of movement. I mean who really thinks that it is a favorable idea to gallop on a horse wearing a micro-mini dress with a sweetheart cut neckline? If you purchase anything above a training bra you know exactly what I’m talking about.

When I was growing up I heard more times than I can count, “Kathryn, that’s not very lady-like.”

Says who????? That’s what I always wanted to know!

Like nails on a chalkboard, the phrase “lady-like” has come to represent the billboard of everything that I was being molded and shaped into, without my natural consent.

I was always so confused by the lady-like checklist because if I was acting “unladylike,” I certainly didn’t know it. That is, until I was told otherwise. Since my scope of awareness and influence was basically through my three older brothers and their pack of friends who were in-and-out of our house all of the time, I really had no idea that it was not okay for me to join their belching contests, or play tag-team wrestling on our brown shag carpet. I looked up to my brothers. I wanted to be like my brothers, so that meant acting like them.

But I guess, as I often found out, a lady doesn’t act that way…

I think it is important to point out that I was not a “tom-boy.” Not even close. If I had to slap a label on myself, I was quite “girly.” When I reached high school, I recall a few of my friends referring to themselves as tom-boys. But that wasn’t me. However, I wasn’t scoring favorable on the “lady” checklist either.

I had no idea how to be a lady, until I was told that whatever I was doing was not the right way to behave. So I became an expert in absorbing what’s appropriate for a lady, based on whether I was being reprimanded or not. Oh, and you should be aware that I did not grow up in the British monarchy. I was raised in a middle-class tri-level home in the suburbs of San Diego, California. Just saying…

Over the years I have discovered that I wasn’t the only one who struggled with this lady-like concept. One of my best friends was sent to charm school to learn proper manners and etiquette. She by far has the best table manners of anyone I know. In fact, to this day she eats with her pinky stretched out as straight as a ruler. It catches me off guard because I know of no one else who eats that way. And contrary to her father’s best intentions for molding her into the perfect feminine package as defined by his point of view, she opted out of “feminine sports” like tennis (really?) as her father hoped, and excelled as one of the best softball players I know. I am sure when she joined the Army her dad had a coronary because camouflage fatigues were most certainly not on his lady-like checklist.

But in my mom’s pursuit to make sure that I sat with my legs crossed and didn’t talk with my mouth full, she was purposeful in making sure my role models embodied feminist woman. I was not allowed to play with Barbie’s because she was not a realistic toy. I seldom watched TV, except for two hours per week (house rules), and I never watched animated princess-themed movies. The books I was encouraged to read were biographies of trailblazing women like Amelia Earhart and Marie Curie. I was encouraged to be an athlete and I excelled at sports with very little effort, and I had no desire to dance on the sidelines and root for the boys on the field.

My mom was purposeful in helping me understand that I could be anything I wanted to be and do anything I wanted to do, as long as I worked hard and had a positive attitude.

So I grew up to be a somewhat lady-like, self-motivated trailblazing mom who is passionate about empowering children. I want to nurture boys with the vision that they can dream of one day being at-home dads raising children, teachers of arts and music, or builders of skyscrapers; and girls can dream of one day being CEOs of corporations, writers and publishers of children’s books, or motorcycle riding circus performers.

Don’t get me wrong, there is nothing too outrageously unrealistic with wanting to be a princess, because apparently that still happens. Just ask Kate Middleton.

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This post was written by Kathryn Cloward and originally posted on her blog here. ]]> 2013-04-10T21:58:15+00:00 http://www.kathrynthegrape.com/index.php/ktg_blog/comments/free_mp3s_of_our_music http://www.kathrynthegrape.com/index.php/ktg_blog/comments/free_mp3s_of_our_music#When:16:20:24Z BELIEVE Kathryn the Grape Songs for Kids of All Ages was released one year ago and it has already received GOLD recognition through the Mom’s Choice Awards. I often hear from parents about how much their children love listening to the CD and singing along to the songs in their car and at home. Naturally, I love hearing feedback like that! And parents usually follow up that feedback with a bit of laughter because they always want to tell me how much they love the songs too considering they are listening to the songs over and over… and over again along with their kids.

When Astra and I sat down to discuss the vision I had for the album, we talked about how important is was to both of us to make sure the music was appealing to parents too. In fact, a number of happy parents have said that our songs sound like music they hear on the radio. Yes! Mission accomplished!

HOW CAN YOU HELP? WHAT’S FOR FREE?

We have not really put much steam behind getting reviews for our music posted on Amazon, but now we are. If you’d like to review our songs and are willing to post an honest review on Amazon, please send an email to info AT kathrynthegrape DOT com, and we will get you set up with receiving an email of the MP3 files of the songs on BELIEVE.

]]> 2013-04-08T16:20:24+00:00 http://www.kathrynthegrape.com/index.php/ktg_blog/comments/it_takes_a_village_to_raise_a_child_conference http://www.kathrynthegrape.com/index.php/ktg_blog/comments/it_takes_a_village_to_raise_a_child_conference#When:16:13:37Z It Takes a Village to Raise a Child Conference this year. The event is on May 4th at the Seaside Center for Spiritual Living in Encintas, CA. There is a wonderful line up of speakers, and attendees are definitely going to be inspired, engaged, and nourished. I will be sharing about how to help your children SHINE their true colors and expanding on the lessons taught in our second book, Kathryn the Grape’s Colorful Adventure. If you have been wanting to teach your children about their chakras, but have been having a difficult time breaking it down in a relatable way, my talk with me extremely helpful.

To find out more about the conference and to registered, click here.



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