What Are Your Personal Policies? Bruce Sullivan is a relationship specialist and a proven performer in achieving results through people for over 24 years. His practical, hands on experience is based on working in both the community and business. He is a Father to Hannah and Declan and he currently balances this with being a Director…
An article in Charlotte Parent Magazine by Malia Jacobson entitled Helping Kids Cope with Moving gives some great advice for helping your children adjust to the stresses and changes that come with moving to a new city or perhaps even a new neighborhood. We believe that new activities are a great way to help your children…
All you have to do is stick your hand down in cool water to retrieve something or pull a sink stopper to realize the answer to the “why” asked in my title. Submerging your arm – even just up to the elbow will cause you to shiver. Even if water temperature isn’t that cool –…
Have you learned how to do Bubble Rings? If not, find an expert to teach you because this looks like fun! You can see when you click to these great pictures and videos that there are some who even believe this should be an Olympic event! Some of the folks in the examples break it…
Parenting Magazine recently features a great article entitled on “Teaching Your Child Charity” by Dianne Harris who is a Parenting Magazine contributing editor and is writing a book on women and finance. Enjoy reading the article and please consider how important guidance toward giving back is to your children. I believe it is vital to each…
Did you know what the 2 “B” foods are that every kid should be eating regularly? You probably guessed that one is Bananas. But do you know the other? It’s Broccoli! Do you know why these foods are important for kids? So what is so great about bananas? Bananas contain three natural sugars: sucrose, fructose…
Why is it a good thing to learn several different swimming strokes? You enjoy swimming but if you really thing about it – you have your favorite swimming strokes. And since you really like those strokes, is there really any advantage to learning the other ones? It may be that you swim the freestyle stroke…
The first thing you think of when you think swimming lessons is that is it an important life skill for a child to learn – and they can have lots of fun doing it. After all, it’s rare to find someone – especially a child – who doesn’t love to swim and be in the…
Watching and doing makes learning something we do together. What we see affects everything we do and even some things that we think. But we don’t just “see”. Part of our “sight” is learned and it is called visual recognition. This begins at a very early age. As soon as infants can focus their eyes,…
A study done at Australia’s Griffith University has fueled my thinking over the past few years and provided a basis for curriculum elements that put the premise of this study into action. The study – based on three years of staged activities -revealed some pretty profound benefits to early childhood swim lessons. And that these…
