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How Laser Tag Can Improve Fitness, Health And Teamwork of Corporate Employees

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012

Are you looking for ways to help your corporate employees enhance their team building skills while keeping them healthy? If yes, you can build up their team building skills, keep them healthy and let them have fun all with laser tag. What better way to start than during National Physical Fitness Month (May)!

Read now to learn about all the fun and fitness laser tag can offer your corporate team.

The best corporate companies out there are the ones that have trained their employees to be skilled team players. You can build up you corporate employees team building skills with the fun activity of laser tag.

Laser tag is a team-oriented game for people of all ages.  During laser your employees can role-play and improve their problem solving skills while having fun and improving their fitness effectively.

Laser tag is a great activity for corporate employees because laser tag is highly flexible in gaming and can be easily customized to fit your corporate team building curriculum needs.

Indoor laser tag arenas are great for team activities because they are large, ark rooms lit by black lights and designed to be challenging with obstacles that require teamwork to be successful at the game.

Some games you can try out during laser tag are death matches and tactical missions. Death matches is a type of laser tag gaming where corporate teams are separated into two smaller teams that try to take out all the members of the opposing team.

As for Tactical mission laser tag games, they can vary in objectives making them perfect for team building activities.

No matter the type of laser tag game your employees play, laser tag will teach them about cooperation, communication, having fun and trusting their teammates.

Build a stronger and better team today at ShadowLand Adventures.

After laser-tag, allow the team members to discuss what they have learned about team work. Do this kind of activity on a regular basis.

Here at ShadowLand Adventures we organize and provide a fun environment for team building activities. We develop specific measurable activities that allow Human Resources to observe teams and provide beneficial feedback. Learn about our business team outing offers by clicking here!

If you have any questions or want ShadowLand Adventures to organize and host your next business team building event, then contact the ShadowLand Adventures nearest you by clicking here today!

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Problem Solving Team Building Activities For Kids

Friday, April 13th, 2012

Do you have elementary and middle school age children? If yes, they are the perfect age group for easily learning team-building skills through team building activities. This article will provide you tips on games and lessons you can plan to encourage them to develop lifetime team building skills. Get started now.

Icebreaker Group Juggle

A great game to play is Group Juggle. This game challenges teams to juggle as fast as possible water balloons. The game will help children build trust while working together.

Egg Package: Save An Egg

Another fun game that helps children build skills is to design egg packages to save eggs from breaking when dropped. This is a great game to teach children about gravity. Let the children also design a 30 second jingle to sell their egg packages prior to the great egg drop-off.

Play Laser Tag

But if you want your children to have some really great team building fun, let them play a few games of laser tag at ShadowLand Adventures to enhance their teamwork and problem solving skills.

Here at ShadowLand Adventures we organize and provide a fun environment for team building activities. We develop specific measurable activities that allow teachers to observe teams and provide beneficial feedback. Learn about our team outing offers by clicking here!

If you have any questions or want ShadowLand Adventures to organize and host your next  team building event, then contact the ShadowLand Adventures nearest you by clicking here today!

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Source: Team Building Activities, Initiative Games, & Problem Solving Exercises

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How To Stop Bullies From Bullying Your Child

Friday, February 3rd, 2012

Has your child ever been bullied at school or during recreational activities? If yes, we are here to help your child stop being bullied by providing you 5 tips to bully-proof your child. Read below to get started.

Bullying of kids happens daily and weekly at school. Now bullying has made national headlines. This has made schools and communities promote anti-bullying. Here are ways to keep your child from being a target of bullying:

Talk About It

Talk to your child about bullying. Let your child know that bullying is never something to be tolerated. Share your stories of being bullied as a child. Make your child know it is okay to tell others he or she has been bullied. Learn what policies the school has about bullying and ask how do members of the staff address bullying.

Remove The Bait

Make sure your child does not bring items to school that would make her or him be a target of bullying. This includes expensive clothing or gadgets. If your child does not need it to learn in class, do not let him or her bring it to school.

Buddy Up For Safety

Make sure your child has a friend or two at school that will be there throughout the school day. Bullies are less likely to target kids with a buddy or two buddies. This includes having a buddy in the locker room, school bus, and bathroom.

Keep Calm and Carry On

If a bully tries to physically or verbally strike your child, tell your child to remain calm and ignore the bully by walking away. Bullies only gain power when hurting others. If a bully cannot ruffle your child, the child is less likely to be targeted by a bully.

Do Not Try to Fight A Battle Alone

As a parent, you should tell your child that he or she could bring bullying concerns to authorities. This includes you, a school official, a counselor or the law enforcement.

To teach your child and your child’s friends how to practice teamwork and support, take them to ShadowLand Adventures.

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Source: 5 Ways To Bully-Proof Your Kid

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Find a Cure To Muscular Dystrophy By Playing Laser Tag

Friday, January 27th, 2012

Are you familiar with the disease muscular dystrophy? A quarter of a million kids and adults live with muscular dystrophy making it likely you know someone who has it. If you are a corporation or individual who wants to help those suffering from life challenging diseases, we are here to help you do so and get familiar with Muscular Dystrophy. Read below to learn about Muscular Dystrophy and how you can help those in need overcome this disease.

What is Muscular Dystrophy?

Muscular Dystrophy (MD) is a genetic disorder. The Disorder weakens muscles, making it challenging to move the body because the genetic disorder prevents the creation of proteins for healthy muscles to develop in the body. MD is not contagious and those with the disease are born with it.

Life expectancy for those affected by MD varies on how much muscles are weakened, especially when it comes to heart and lung functions.

How Do Doctors Diagnose MD?

Doctors diagnose MD through a physical examination and reviewing the medical history of an individual (a background check of a person’s family health and personal health). These tasks will help doctors discover the type of MD a person has and rule out other diseases that could affect muscles and nerves. Occasionally a muscle biopsy, where the doctor removes some muscle tissue to examine, is necessary.

How Is MD Treated?

MD has no cure but doctors and scientists are doing their best to find a cure by fixing defective genes so that the genes will make the correct proteins for the healthy development of muscles. The other potential cure is to make chemicals that could act like proteins in the body.

Teens with MD can do exercises and physical therapy to avoid stiffening of muscles surrounding joints. This will make moving less challenging and reduce painful positions.

How Can I get involved?

You can help find a cure for MD by playing some laser tag games at ShadowLand Laser Adventures! In celebration of Muscular Dystrophy Awareness week, on Tuesday February 7th , ShadowLand Laser Adventures in all five  of ShadowLand  locations( Centers are located in Columbia(MD),Frederick(MD), Gaithersburg(MD), Chantilly(VA) and Springfield(VA)) is donating $2 for each $7.75 game to the Muscular Dystrophy Association.  Have fun and help find a cure to Muscular Dystrophy.

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Source: Muscular Dystrophy


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5 Tips on Teaching Your Child Respect

Friday, January 20th, 2012

Are you looking for ways to teach your child how to be respectful? If yes, we are here to help by providing you five great tips on teaching respect to your child. Read below to get started.

 

Teaching your child respect should be a necessary task of parenting. Your child will not learn to respect others unless you teach it, expect it and model it in your own behaviors.

 

As a parent, expect your child to take cues from you on how to socially interact with others. When children are around respectful people, they are more inclined to show respect. If they are around disrespectful people, they will learn disrespectful behaviors.

 

 

It takes years for a child to effectively learn respect. Be sure you set out time to teach your child this crucial life skill. Speak with respect to your child. Do not yell at him or her when you do not get your way.

 

Model Respect

When you show you respect other people, your child will want to respect other people. This is especially important with a romantic relationship with a partner. If you cannot have healthy relationships with your significant other, your child will catch on to it and start a cycle of lifetime unhealthy relationships.

Expect Respect

If you set standards high that respect is mandatory in your home and outside of your home, your child will do his or her best to live up to your expectations. You are one of his or her most important people in the world. Of course he or she wants to make you proud.

 

Teach Respect

State and visually show when you are respecting someone, including respecting yourself. You child will slowly but surely connect statements with actions. An example would be saying “ I am respectfully holding the door for you. Will you respectfully hold the door for me next time?”

 

Discuss Respect

When you see other children being respectful or disrespectful verbally or by behavior, make it obvious to your child. Say, “See that child is being respectful” or say, “ See that child is being disrespectful…do not do or say that.”

 

Praise Your Child for being Respectful

Positive reinforcements work very well in teaching your child respect. Thank your child and reward him or her with a treat or a fun activity, such as a ShadowLand Adventure, when he or she respects people and his or herself.

 

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Source: 10 Tips on Teaching Respect to Children: You Can’t Get It If You Don’t Give It!

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4 Ways To Teach Your Child to Share

Friday, January 6th, 2012

Teaching your child to share is an important and challenging task. Kids must learn that the world does not revolve around them. We are here to give you a few steps to successfully teach your child about sharing. Read below to get started.

Selfish children turn into selfish adults. A world full of selfish people does more harm than good. As a parent you must effectively teach your child how to share with other people because surviving the real world consist of being a productive and giving member of society.

Don’t Force Your Child To Share

It is never a good idea to try to force a child to share. Your child will see it as a task rather than a good-natured action. Form an environment in your home life that encourages sharing. Make sharing toys together a fun interaction.

Practice Generosity In Front of Your Child

Children are prone to learning and practicing what they see their parents and other social interactions do. If you practice generosity and sharing as a joy to do, your child is more likely to want to be a generous person as well.

Be A Safety Net For Your Child

Make sure your child knows you are there for him or her every step of the way. A loving home is a place of security for a child. When child feels safe, he or she is more likely to be kind and giving.

Play Games of Sharing

Let your child participate in games of sharing. Let them share food and snacks such as cookies. Or add some fun to teaching your child to share with family and friends by bringing him or her to ShadowLand Adventures for awesome games, food, and drinks!

 

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Source: Five Steps For Teaching Sharing To Young Children

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Christmas Fantastic Party Games

Friday, December 16th, 2011

Christmas is almost here. It is time for family fun. We have some fun Christmas Party games for you. Read below to learn about fun Christmas Party games!

Christmas Stocking Guessing Game

This game is great for the entire family. All you need are Christmas stockings and holiday items to stuff your stockings. Make each stocking have 10 to 15 items. Tie each stocking with ribbon to make sure no one can see what is inside any of the stockings.

Play in teams by giving team members identical stockings. Let each team guess how many objects are in each stocking. The team that guesses the correct items will win them.

Christmas Word Scramble

Use a poster board, pen and paper. Make a list of words related to the holidays. Scramble up the letters contained in these words on the poster board.

Find Santa

Let the family find a hidden Santa throughout the house.  You can use a Santa ornament or create a cut out Santa image. Let one player hide the Santa. When players find the Santa, they cannot say they found it. They must sit near it. This game is not about winning but a fun game to do for a holiday party. This is great for children.

To learn about more fun Christmas Party games, read this article from Fun-Frugal-Mom.com.

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Festive Christmas Party Games For The Kids

Thursday, December 8th, 2011

Are you searching for ways to entertain the kids for your Christmas Party? If yes, we are here to help by give you a few festive games you can play with the kids this holiday season.

Candy Cane Pass

Candy Cane Pass is a relay race for the kids. All you need are four candy canes per team. Make sure you have a few extras in case the candy canes break during the game.

A player from each team must hold four candy canes between his or her fingers. A player from each team will pass the candy canes down the line, until all team mates have ran the race with the four candy canes. The candy canes cannot be dropped or the whole team has to restart the game. The first team to have completed the tasks wins.

Santa Says

Santa says is similar to the game Simon Says. One player will be Santa and command the elves (the other players) to do tasks such as “Do 10 jumping jacks”. When Santa says ‘stop’ all players must stop. The players that do not stop are eliminated from the game. Santa Says is a great game for young children.

Word Find

Use Christmas themed words such as Christmas, Poinsettia, and Silent Night to make smaller words until the timer runs out. As the words get more challenging, make the time shorter for players to make smaller words. This will make the game fun and challenging.

For more Christmas party game ideas read article Holidays.Kaboose.com.

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5 Holiday Stress-Free Tips For Parents

Tuesday, November 29th, 2011

Are you a parent that often becomes stressed during the holiday season? If yes, we are here to help you by giving you five ways to avoid holiday stress. Read below to find out how!

Shower Daily

We are not telling you to shower daily to keep you smelling clean (although we recommend it); we are telling you to shower daily to give your skin natural lubricants during the drier air winter time. If you feel physically comfortable, you will feel less stressed.

 

Spend more time with your children.

It is good for children to spend time with parents because there is nothing like the care of parents. Read them a book. Go out to eat. Play games together. The quality time you spend with your children matters now and in the future.

Cooking from Scratch

When you cook from scratch, you appreciate your mealtime and family time much more. Do it with the kids! A great cooking from scratch activity is making a pie or cake together.

A Spotless House

Make sure your house is clean. It does not have to be perfect because your kids need exposure to germs so that their immune systems build up resistance. Wipe down floors, sinks and toilets. A clean environment is a happy environment.

 

For more stress-free holiday tips, read this article from Parenting.com.

 

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