The Little Gym
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The Little Gym wants you and your children to learn and grow inside and outside of the gym! Our ideas, insights, and tips will help you keep your kids happy, healthy, and on the right track.
Fresh ideas, insights, and tips from The Little Gym
Little Ways Kids Can Make a BIG Difference in Their Community
National Make a Difference Day is approaching on October 27th. Celebrated each year on the fourth Saturday in October, National Make A Difference Day is an annual community service event in which millions of people unite in the common mission to improve the lives of...
Easy Date Ideas for Busy Parents
If you hear the word “date” and think about the fruit and not your spouse or partner, then you’re overdue for a parents’ night out. Most parents are overdue! With work, school, and extracurricular activities it sometimes seems impossible to squeeze in a date night...
Benefits of Team Building Activities for Kids
Team building activities are vital at all stages of life, but for children, the benefits can carry them through childhood and adulthood. Team building activities for kids gives them the opportunity to learn how to communicate with their peers. By working as a team,...
Importance of Independent Play for Children
Independent play is just as important as group play for children. In fact, independent play teaches children how to be self-reliant, creative, imaginative, and even improves focus and thinking capabilities. And let’s be honest, the well-deserved “Me Time” isn’t so bad...
Cartwheel Your Way through National Gymnastics Day!
National Gymnastics Day is a Serious Fun holiday that was created by USAG to highlight the impact that gymnastics has on children all over the world. To help celebrate, we’ve gathered 10 of our favorite gymnastics fun-facts. Check them out below! The word gymnastics...
The Importance of Creative Play for Kids
Creative play is a vital part of childhood and child development. Through creative and imaginative play children can grow emotionally, socially, intellectually, and even physically. Creative experiences help a child develop these skills and enable them to share their...
Tips to Develop an Early Reading Habit for Kids
As a mom, you get “first dibs” on influencing your child’s brain. Time and time again, studies have shown that reading while pregnant has a positive effect on a child’s development early on, and it continues as they grow. Reading early, and often, has been shown to...
The BIG Benefits of Physical Activities for Kids
Children are busy, busy little people! Physical activity does so much more than provide children with an outlet for burning their endless supply of energy. Over the years, various studies on child development have been conducted to prove that physical activities for...
5 Tips for Building Confidence & Independence in Kids
Parenting is a very big and very important job. You’re the big person to your little person and you’re responsible for teaching and guiding your child to be resilient and independent. Overwhelmed yet? It’s important to build confidence in kids to help prepare them for...
Age Appropriate Chores for Kids
With school, playdates, and extracurricular activities, finding time for children to do household tasks may seem impossible, and that’s just your schedule! However, it’s important to make time and room for chores for kids into your daily agenda, if nothing else than...
