Diane's outrageous character, Olga, delivers autobiographical and often healing stories through the voices of children's letters on topical issues such as being labeled, body image, fashion, diet, exclusion, violence in entertainment and emotional expression. Olga holds up enlarged ads detrimental to children's self-image and dissects them with truth and humor. There's no one as opinionated or funny as Olga. Young audiences get a hilarious and poignant inner-strength workout, helping them survive the hype and subliminal messages in their outside world, while celebrating individuality and similarities in their inside world.

Goals

To serve as catalyst and ice-breaker for school nurses and social workers discussing mandatory health standards

To put the humor back into natural growing pains so distorted by media hype

To give children and educators an understanding of subliminal marketing tactics

To remind adults how children see the world

To teach through hilarious examples Olga's Life Rules:

1. Love your body, not an image
2. Know your feelings. Use your words
3. Have an open mind so you can fit things into it
4. Know what you love, so you can love what you do
5. Learn to laugh at yourself

Ask Olga! meets many of the health standards mandated by the Department of Education.