How Youth Activity Centers Celebrate the Holidays
We all love to celebrate the holidays - not just the big ones like Christmas, but others throughout the year! And youth activity centers such as swim school, dance studios and gymnastics gyms are no different. The period from October to December is like a holiday marathon. Halloween, Thanksgiving and December holidays roll quickly into one another, just as the buzz of the new school year starts to calm down. Celebrating the holidays is a [...]
How to keep students focused amidst holiday distractions
December is drawing near and so are the impending distractions facing students in your youth activity center. Between gifts, glittery decorations and parties - the holidays can be a difficult time to keep students focused on training, technique and other important skills that require focus during weekly classes. For those [...]
Using Humor in Teaching and Business Management
You don’t have to be the clown to interject humor into a workplace environment or to use humor in teaching students. Without humor of the right kind, work can be pretty bland. And when things get bland or routine, people get bored with their jobs and performance suffers. A recent [...]
6 holiday gift ideas for students
The holidays are the perfect time to show your students you care about them. It’s the season of giving, after all. So why not share those warm and fuzzy feelings with your customers? We know you’re busy. You’ve got a business to keep going, for Pete’s sake. That’s why we’ve [...]
How to Improve Skills by Practicing Gymnastics at Home
If a gymnast works on skills in gymnastics class once or twice a week, they may not see the progress at a speed that satisfies them. Gymnasts can boost their rate of improvement by practicing gymnastics at home. By practicing at home, gymnasts can go to the next level without [...]
Helping Your Gymnast Develop Confidence
Students can be talented at a sport and still not excel if they lack confidence. A lack of confidence in gymnastics can be frustrating and concerning. It’s difficult to see an athlete who has great talent be unable to compete at their full ability due to low confidence or fear [...]
Halloween Classroom Ideas That Will ‘Wow’ Your Studio’s Children and Parents
With October’s arrival comes one of our favorite holidays: Halloween. And while you may think Halloween’s popularity is due to the over-abundance of candy, or the opportunity for children and adults to act with ridiculousness like walking around their neighborhoods in homemade to designer costumes, ring doorbells and shout nonsense, [...]
7 Steps to Help Kids Resist Peer Pressure
If you’re around kids at all, you’ve witnessed the scene of your son or daughter coming home with requests of purchases of specific items because so-and-so has one. This could be a jacket, a backpack and lunch bag or a t-shirt. It really doesn’t matter what it is, if your [...]
Give Your Gymnasts a Bag List of What They Should Bring to Practice
Whether your gymnasts are new to the sport or veterans on the mat, they can ensure that gymnastics practices are great by being prepared. To help out, we’ve come up with the ultimate list of what your gymnasts should put in their gym bags - and provided it in a [...]
Providing a Gender Inclusive Space Where Students Can Thrive
Welcome all humans! Here at Jackrabbit we’ve always thought of each other and our clients as a family. I’m sure you can relate! Children spend the majority of their time between school, after school activities, and home - which makes you a key part of their day and of their community. [...]
Reviewing Your Policies Before Chaos of Fall: How Are You Incorporating Gender Neutrality
For centuries dance has held various traditions that have been exclusively gender binary, recognizing just two genders: male and female. Audiences have seen examples of these roles in some dance genres like classical ballet and traditional partner dances. In more recent years, the gender neutrality movement has made strides in [...]