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.
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Teamwork Activities for Kids
Being a team player isn’t just an important trait for the playing field. Children who are team players show increased levels of problem solving, communication, cooperation, listening, self-esteem, and leadership. The teamwork skills children learn from being team...
Benefits of Gymnastics for Kids
Did you know that gymnastics helps kids to develop physical skills like body control, coordination and strength? Gymnastics for kids allows children to experience self-confidence through creativity, performance, and helps to lay a strong foundation for other sports...
10 Ways to Celebrate National Gymnastics Day
Mark your calendar for National Gymnastics Day! Created by USA Gymnastics, National Gymnastics Day highlights the positive impact that gymnastics for kids has on children in communities all over the world. Celebrate this holiday with one or more of the fun kids...
5 Reasons to Hug Your Child Everyday
A simple hug, in reality, is not all that simple! Hugs can help children grow to be healthier, happier, smarter, and strengthen parent/child relationships. It’s true! Each time you are hugged your body releases a hormone called oxytocin. This hormone helps to boost...
5 Easy Ways to Bond with Your Baby
Navigating the world as a new parent can feel like being in a whirlwind. You’re getting to know this tiny little human who came into your life and rocked your world – but in a good way! While new babies don’t do a whole lot more than eat, sleep, and poop, there are...
How to Raise a Leader
Some children are natural born leaders; they’re confident, bossy, and have a natural instinct to take charge. Some children simply need more time for those skills to blossom. They require more guidance, nurturing, and even reassurance to strengthen leadership...
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...