Hours of Fun for the Entire Family!

Whether you flip forward or flip backward, you will definitely flip out for Sky High Sports! You can free-bounce and do tricks all day, or you can join us for some of our organized activities, like our trampoline dodge ball. As long as you like to bounce, Sky High Sports is for you. Everyone is [...]

Hiking With Kids: A Renewal of Life

Bill Rozday
www.virginpinespress.com
With suburban living entering a third generation, parents are concerned their children are becoming totally cut off from nature.  In response, they are short-circuiting the electronic realities of current life by deliberately taking children outdoors.  By doing so, they deal with both benefits and burdens.

A great benefit of hiking with children is cutting the [...]

Don’t Say “Don’t”

Jody Johnston Pawel
www.parentstoolshop.com
When I was eight years old, my parents took a parenting class and went on to teach parenting classes for over twenty years. I was old enough to remember what my parents were like before and after that class. One might think I had a perfect family, but my older brother experienced a [...]

Enhancing the Family Dining Experience

Dyan Eyebergen
www.childperspectiveparenting.com
Mealtime for families should be a pleasant experience where members come together to share in themselves. Historically, food is a well-known catalyst for bringing people together – from its preparation to consumption – it should be a family affair. Unfortunately, most family dining experiences are wrought with children complaining about the meal, and parents [...]

Excuses be Gone!

Dr. Wayne Dyer
www.drwaynedyer.com

“I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable
ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor.”
— from Walden, by Henry David Thoreau
There are four words in Thoreau’s quote that I want to highlight—encouraging, unquestionable, elevate, and conscious.

Excuses Begone! is encouraging you to challenge patterns and feel inspired by a [...]

The Value to Volunteering

It is never too early to encourage our kids to care about others. Dr. Erik Fisher gives us some great advice on the cycle of giving and receiving.
In today’s society, so many of us feel that children are growing up with unhealthy values and unproductive attitudes. Children and teens are sometimes viewed as self-centered, seldom [...]

The Do’s and Don’t of Teaching Kids Self Control

Experts tell us that self control is one of the most important virtues kids need to do well in life. Here are some great tips from author Dyan Eybergen on the Do’s and Don’ts of this crucial life skill.
Self-control is a skill that enables a person to discern what is right from wrong. It is [...]