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Friday, May 11th, 2012
Is your child’s birthday coming up soon? If yes, a great birthday party you can throw for your child is a laser tag party. Read now to learn what goes on during a laser tag party.
Do you remember when you were a kid excited about playing hide-and-seek and you thought nothing could be more thrilling than sneaking in the dark trying to tag your friends? If yes, the thrill of playing laser tag is 20 times better and you can offer this memorable experience to your child on a very special birthday!
Your child and your child’s friends can be the characters of their favorite video games, tagging each other with lasers in a room made for role playing and fun activities. You have the option to share the laser tag arena with anyone or you can reserve the whole arena and keep it private for just your child’s birthday party.
Once, you decide which environment works best for your party, you, your child and the party guests, you will enter a briefing room to learn all about the arena, how to operate laser tag equipment, game rules and safety procedures.
Next, all participates will be outfitted with their laser tag gear. Once this is completed, you all will be ready to play in the maze full of walkways, ramps, pillars, and hiding spots.
You can play as many games as you requests and once your party is done playing, they can feast on pizza, cake and ice cream. You can also let your child open presents during this time.
Laser Tag is one of the most exciting birthday parties for boys and girls of all ages. To plan your event today at ShadowLand Adventures, Click Here To Reserve A Party.
If you have any questions or want to leave it to the professionals to add some fun for you and the kids, contact the ShadowLand Adventures nearest you by clicking here today!
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Friday, April 27th, 2012
Did you know that indoor games such as laser tag could benefit your child’s educational and physical development? It is true. Kids like to have fun and if funs consist of good exercise, you will be happy for your kids to be active as well. Read to learn how indoor games such as laser tag can improve your child’s health.
An indoor game such as laser tag could enhance your child’s educational and physical health. During laser tag, children can learn how to work as teammates and build strong problem solving skills because laser tag requires intelligence while playing.
Your child can learn crucial life social skills while preventing his or herself from obesity through physical activity.
Laser tag is a regular activity your child should take up to learn how to play graciously with others while maintaining a healthy competitive edge and good sportsmanship. These skills help children become great leaders amongst their peers and throughout their life.
Laser tag will give your child many options on how to play the game as well.
If you want to help your child enhance his or her educational and physical skills, play a few games of laser tag at ShadowLand Adventures.
If you have any questions or want to leave it to the professionals to add some fun for you and the kids, contact the ShadowLand Adventures nearest you by clicking here today!
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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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Friday, March 30th, 2012
If you are looking for ways to improve your child’s strategizing skills, laser tag is a great activity for your child to build strategizing skills. This article will provide you information on how to teach your child to strategize in Laser Tag and beyond.
It is a very valuable life skill to learn to strategize to one’s individual and team advantage. An individual strategy is called a solo strategy. Working with a team is called a team strategy. Here is what you do for these strategies during game play and in the real world:
Solo Strategy
When planning one’s individual strategy, a person needs to conceal his or her self from enemies. No one can harm you, if no one can see you. A great way to stay invisible is to wear dark clothing that blends with your surroundings. Avoid wearing white clothes because it will stand out under black light. Hair gels and face paint should also be avoided.
The next, use others as shields. Whenever you leave your home base, go with group members. You should never be the first or last teammate to enter the playing field.
Once in the field, continuously move in random motions. If you keep your body sensors in motion, it will be harder to hit you. Knowing the terrain will also help you strategize.
Always remember that you will gain more points making a tag than you would lose points being tagged.
The Team Strategy
When you want your team to function well, you need to give all team members defined roles. Come up with a strategy to move about the playing field. Give labels. If you are good at football formations, you can definitely use similar tactics for laser tag. One of the best strategies is using a teammate as bait while the rest of the team does a formation to surround the opposing players. Surprise attacks are the best attacks.
Last but not least, anticipate your opponents’ moves. Whatever they do, counteract.
To teach your child and your child’s friends how to practice teamwork and support, take them to ShadowLand Adventures.
If you have any questions or want to leave it to the professionals to add some fun for you and the kids, contact the ShadowLand Adventures nearest you by clicking here today!
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Source: How To Strategize in Laser Tag
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Friday, March 9th, 2012
Does your child find it challenging to make friends? If yes, we are here to help your child make friends and keep friends by being a good friend.
If your child does not make friends easily, it can really effect how they socially relate to others. Having good quality friends throughout teenage years is very important because your child will start to branch away from you and learn to make decisions for his or her own self. A teen craves acceptance and support from friends.
Here are some simple but effective strategies you can teach your child to make the difficult social years much easier. The purpose of learning friendship strategies is to teach your teen how to be a good friend and learn to be comfortable about his or herself.
Let your child make use of the following friendship strategies:
Teach Your Child About Healthy Friendships
When your child knows what actions a good friend demonstrates, he or she will look for friends with those qualities and be a good friend to others. For one, make it clear to your child that a good friend does not gossip and maintaining a strong friendship requires effort.
Teach this lesson by telling your child what you like about his or her current friends. For example, if a friend calls when your child is sick to see how she or he is doing than you should make it know to your child that is a good friend action.
A child can foster strong friendships by you allowing the friend to occasionally join in on family activities such as movie night or dinner with the family. Make clear to your child there is no substitute for one-on-one time together. Texting and emailing only is no sign of a good friendship. Spending time together to bond is a sign of a good friendship.
Help Your Child Make Friends
You can help your child make good friends by showing him or her that attitude and appearance matter. Your child could send the wrong messages to peers if he or she always has an attitude or if he or she does not keep a confident physical appearance. Your child does not need the perfect body to keep friends. What your child needs is real confidence.
Don’t Make Popularity Be Important
Yes, it is normal for a child to want to be in the “in” crowd but it is not a good idea to teach your child to be a follower rather than a leader. Don’t let your own personal childhood baggage keep your child from making the right choices about friends. Teach confidence to your child by teaching him or her about respecting others’ opinions and talents. Teach your child to not resent others who are different from him or her in preference or abilities as well. Allow your child to discover the joys of real friendship. Be supportive and consistently provide a positive influence.
To teach your child and your child’s friends how to practice teamwork and support, take them to ShadowLand Adventures.
If you have any questions or want to leave it to the professionals to add some fun for you and the kids, contact the ShadowLand Adventures nearest you by clicking here today!
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Source: Help Your Tween Make Friends and Keep Them
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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.
If you have any questions or want to leave it to the professionals to add some fun for you and the kids, contact the ShadowLand Adventures nearest you by clicking here today!
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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.
If you have any questions or want to leave it to the professionals to add some fun for you and the kids, contact the ShadowLand Adventures nearest you by clicking here today!
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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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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!
If you have any questions or want to leave it to the professionals to add some fun for you and the kids, contact the ShadowLand Adventures nearest you by clicking here today!
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Source: Five Steps For Teaching Sharing To Young Children
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Friday, December 23rd, 2011
It is the holiday season. Time to enjoy time with the family as well as a good meal. This is a perfect time to teach your child about table manners. Good table manners go a long way in life. Read below for great tips on teaching your child table manners.
Lead By Example
Make sure you are practicing what you are preaching to your child about having good table manners. For example, do not chew with your mouth open, if you want your child not to chew with his or her mouth open. Your child will watch your every move and behavior. Do not eat with your hands. Teach your child how to clean after his or herself. The behaviors you teach your child while he or she is young will be held for a lifetime.
Teach Your Child To Take His or Her Time
Make sure your child knows eating is not a contest. Let your child know there is no need to rush through a meal. Eating in a rush is not healthy and it leads to other sloppy behaviors.
Teach Your Child How To Eat Properly
Show your child how to move his or her mouth when eating and drinking. Mouths should be closed while chewing food. Beverages should not be gulped. Make sure your child knows to cover his or her mouth when burping.
Keep It Consistent
Make sure your child learns that being polite correlates with good table manners. Make sure your child says please and thank you when given food or drinks.
For more tips on how to teach your child good table manners, including age-appropriate rules of developing table manners, read this article from SavvyDaddy.com.
Add some fun to teaching your child table manners by bringing him or her to ShadowLand Adventures for awesome games, food, and drinks!
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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.
If you have any questions or want to leave it to the professionals to add some fun for you and the kids, contact the ShadowLand Adventures nearest you by clicking here today!
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