There are countless women competing at all levels of swimming: club, high school, college, and professional levels. There was a time when women didn’t have these opportunities. Everyone can use a reminder, and young swimmers can learn from the women who have made sport-changing contributions to swimming and made it what it is today. Do…
You’ve made it to swimming lessons with your kids, their bathing suits goggles and a towel. First hurdle accomplished! If you are even close to being on time, give yourself one star. If your child actually willingly got into the pool without tears, you get two stars! Now that your child is in the pool…
Owners of Jackrabbit Technologies and Little Otter Swim School Discuss Inc. 5000 Recognition Jackrabbit Technologies ranked on the Inc. 5000 list of high growth companies for the 7th consecutive year at #4023 while Little Otter Swim School made its first appearance at #3626. The two companies are more than honorees – they’ve had a client-service…
Just as preferences for anything else, people have different preferences for the ways they learn. Actually, it’s more than a “preference,” but the way we’re wired from birth. This becomes obvious in children pretty early on and can determine what types of classes they get the most from and what types of environments they will…
As a parent, it can sometimes feel like there are endless things to worry about. Is my child getting proper nutrition? Are my kids being stimulated, but not overly stimulated? And, perhaps most importantly, are they safe? If you’ve put your little one in swimming lessons, you probably feel good about the fact that you’ve…
If you’ve ever met Mark Mahoney or John Kirk, you understand why they are successful entrepreneurs. They have all of the entrepreneurial symptoms: obsession with time management, expectations for rapid action, propensity for strategic thinking, insatiable curiosity, and intuition for exiting detrimental situations. Yes, these are the five most common traits of serial entrepreneurs and…
Little Otter loves music and loves using it to help their students learn to swim. In fact, the inclusion of music in their teaching strategy is one of the components of Little Otter’s swim instruction that makes taking lessons at either the Matthews or Huntersville school so much fun and so effective for kids. You…
“Just keep swimming! Just keep swimming! Just keep swimming, swimming, swimming!” Dory, Finding Nemo. Swimming is an activity everyone can enjoy. There is nothing as refreshing on a hot summer day as jumping into a nice cool pool. When you’re a parent, you want your kids to enjoy swimming and you want them to be…
Mom and Dad, you know that kids complain about everything! They are fickle – quickly switching likes and dislikes on a whim and doing about faces on choices that you think are solid. So – even though your kid has acted thrilled about coming to swim lessons – they may come up with some interesting…
The end of summer is in sight. Early mornings will return with alarm clocks and rushed breakfasts before heading out the door to school. It’s time again for finding the time in all of your activities for getting homework done. All of this bustle can cause stress. One way to help reduce stress is to…
