School Is Out

At one time there were four brothers in the same situation. The brothers had individual talents that complemented each other. They learned that there was nothing they couldn't do together. Can you imagine creating tree forts that go from tree to tree, connected at multiple levels? How about knotted swings allowing them to get from fort to fort? Swinging was everything to them. What imaginations these small boys had. The brothers took their love of fun into their adult lives and began designing things they wished they had when they were kids.

Now, how do parents fix the problem of boredom and the high energy levels of their children? By bringing the playground into the safety of their home. It's a dream... just hang it up and swing! Swinging provides hours of indoor fun and children love to swing. Now they can swing in the safety of their home day or night, rain or shine.

Swinging provides much, much more than just fun. Children just need to know that it is fun, but parents need to know that their children learn about their bodies and the world around them through the use of their senses. Everything they do requires touch, smell, taste, sound, sight, balance and body awareness. The ability to efficiently process sensory information impacts all of our daily life activities. Every child processes information differently, therefore each child can have a different response to the same situation and or stimuli. Swinging has the ability to help children with attention, balance, behavior, social skills, fine motor and gross motor skills.

Give Your Children Ideals For Living

Proverbs 22:6 - Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

As parents it is our sacred duty to train our children in the way they should be properly trained. Is there only one way to do this right? If you were to ask 100 parents what the "right" way to train their children was, you would almost certainly get 100 different answers. But one thing should be consistent: parents should be responsible for insuring their children are raised to be productive citizens. For me, that means my children should have a basic understanding of right and wrong and have a great desire to only do what is right.

In attaining this goal you should give your children ideals for living. May these three suggestions give you some "ideals" on how that may better be accomplished.

1.  TEACH YOUR CHILDREN TO THINK FOR THEMSELVES - To live life*to the fullest, you need to be able to think independently.  This is how you can create a world of limitless possibility. In today's world there are leaders and there are followers. Hopefully, we are training our children to be leaders. To be leaders they need to be able to think independently. To think independently means to question everything!  Listening to the advice that other people give you is fine as long as you do not act on that advice until you have questioned the wisdom of the advice. Ultimately, you need to form your own personal opinion.  This is what leaders do, whether they are leading a company, a family, or their own lives.