Larraine Segil is a dynamic speaker who will entertain, inspire and educate parents, children and professionals alike.

1. Rockin’ GrandmaMusic – Larraine Segil as Speaker
Topic One: Balancing Life, Work, Mommy and Grandma-hood, Health and Fun!
Larraine Segil has a lot of experience in these topics! After a 35 year career as a
lawyer, corporate executive, entrepreneur, business book author, keynote speaker,
strategy guru and corporate board member, she is also a mom and grandma, god
mother and great aunt to little ones aged 14 weeks to 9 years old, farmer and
cheesemaker! Now a composer of children’s music and writer of children’s books, she
balances a continuing and reconstructed life of babysitting, education, corporate
leadership, healthy organic living. She will speak about her varied careers (5) and how
to balance life, work, love and family.
Topic Two: Teaching Toddlers Great Habits through Music and Stories – For
Parenting Groups
Larraine Segil, author of children’s books and music, created for her own grandchildren,
speaks on how to use imaginary characters and storytelling to help children learn to do
daily chores. Her character Sam, the Broken Robot, belongs to The Pretend Family –
mom and dad P who live with Lolly and Polly their two children, in a city apartment.
Their grandparents live on a little organic urban farm. Through these characters and
situations, Sam teaches children about sharing, being kind to animals, respecting
differences, and so much more, with stories about animals that live on the Little Farm as
well as situations that he and the children are in. He shows how to solve problems with
thinking not shouting, how music and dance and creativity add to joy and problem
solving, and brings his wisdom to topics of friendship, being kind to animals, reaching
your dreams. Sam was born with a handicapped arm, and he shows that although that
makes him different, he is still able to apply his mind to whatever he wants to do despite
his limitation. The Toothbrush Song, Sleepy Song, First Day at School Song and
Dancing in my Room song among many more, teach children about good daily habits,
activities that are part of their everyday lives, keeping active and healthy. Larraine will
bring her CD music with her as well as her children’s books to demonstrate and support
her comments.
Topic Three: Rockin’ Grandma Music and Sam, The Broken Robot Share Songs
and Stories
Larraine Segil presents a live show for toddlers 6 months – 6 years and their families.
Playing her CDs of music written especially for this age group, and telling her stories
about her character Sam, the Broken Robot, she describes how he belongs to The
Pretend Family – mom and dad P who live with Lolly and Polly their two children, in a
city apartment. Their grandparents live on a little organic urban farm. Through these
characters and situations, Sam teaches children about sharing, understanding animals,
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2. respecting differences, and so much more, with stories about animals that live on the
Little Farm as well as situations that he and the children are in. He shows how to solve
problems with thinking not shouting, how music and dance and creativity add to joy and
problem solving, and brings his wisdom to topics of friendship, being kind to animals,
reaching your dreams. Sam was born with a handicapped arm, and he shows that
although that makes him different, he is able to apply his mind to whatever he wants to
do. The Toothbrush Song, Sleepy Song, First Day at School Song and Dancing in my
Room song among many more, teach children about good daily habits, activities that
are part of their everyday lives, keeping active and healthy. Larraine dresses up as
Sam, the Broken Robot to do the show and interacts with the audience, drawing the
little ones into the show with energy and enthusiasm.
Topic 4: Rockin’ Grandma Music: Cooking with Kids:
Larraine Segil is an accomplished cook but more importantly a loving grandma. She
loves to cook with her grandchildren. In this presentation she talks about how important
it is to cook with your children/grandchildren as well as to sit down and eat with them
too. Family Meals are better for your physical health and your wallet. Creating the family
dinner promotes healthy eating. Many studies identify nutritional benefits associated
with eating meals together. One study, conducted by the Baylor College of Medicine,
demonstrated that meals eaten together consist of about 50% more fruits and
vegetables than meals consumed alone. In addition, family meals are three times more
likely to include low-fat choices and are far less likely to include soda. In another study,
Harvard University researchers found that children who ate dinner with their families
were more likely to have better nutritional intakes at meals. The study identified families
where mothers worked to underscore the fact that family dinner was possible even
when parents had less time. The family dinner can bring financial benefits as well.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 43% of the family food budget in 2006 was
spent on “away from home” meals compared to food purchased from a grocery store.
They also report that this translates into more than $2,000 per family per year spent on
dinners away from home, and that 10% of those dinners come from McDonald’s.
Children who eat dinner with their families do better in school, feel more socially
connected to their parents have better peer relationship and are less likely to try drugs
and alcohol. There is even an organization called eatdinner.org dedicated to increasing
awareness of the benefits of family meals.
Larraine has wonderful ways of including children in the cooking and preparation of the
meal. She teaches children about setting the table, learning how to place cutlery and
crockery, putting down place mats and napkins – all leading to the ceremony of eating
with grace, and focus rather than stuffing and rushing. She teaches parents and
grandparents how to help children to cut safely, by holding her hand while she holds the
knife. She includes simple math (adding ingredients, reading a recipe, measuring
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3. teaspoons or tablespoons) as well as fine motor skills such as stirring, whipping and
spooning. And of course the clean habits of washing hands before starting, wearing an
apron, and washing when changing food groups (ie touching chicken – then wash –
touching vegetables – then wash and so on). Of course the best part is sitting down to
eat the product of the effort together as a family group.
Contact information: Email: Grandma@RockinGrandmaMusic.com
www.RockinGrandmaMusic.com and www.lsegil.com