'Lucky Shamrock Week'

This week is all about the fun of traditions! When we show our children and participate in family traditions, we are giving our family a better sense of who they are... who you are as a family. You give them the ability to imagine the future with their own families, carrying out the same traditions. This week, the fun is all about St. Patricks Day.. leprachauns, gold at the end of the rainbow, corn beef and cabbage and more. If you don't already, try implementing a new tradition over this upcoming weekend; maybe a corn beef meal on Sunday night, or watching your kids wake up and find gold from the leprachauns.

Welcome to March...

This week is Space Week at the gym, and we are thinking about how changing technology has changed our world. As kids, we all grow up wanting to be a hero, fireman, police officer, or astronaut. But as technology has advanced, things that seemed out of reach and 'into the future' are now a reality. So this week, while you are at home with your kiddo's, talk about what they want to be when they grow up. Then, tell them what you wanted to be when you grew up and how things have changed. Talk to them about the first time a space shuttle was sent to the moon and how technology has made things so much easier. This will give you the opening to talk about how that same technology has made life easier in some ways and harder in others. Talking with your kids when they are young, opens the pathways of communication and they will feel at ease talking to you as they get older, and the topic gets harder.