GYMTRIX Gets Stamp of Approval

Earlier this week GYMTRIX received some great feedback from Dr. Sharon Burow, Professor of Early Childhood Education at Wisconsin Lutheran College. Here is what she had to say:

"As a professor in early childhood education, I continue to note the decline in physical education at the early childhood level that seem to fall into two categories. First the intensification of an academic emphasis as a means for accountability, with the flippant remark, "They can do 'that' at home" is frequently echoed to justify removing it as an essential part of the curriculum. The truth is that children go home and flop in front of the television, which frees parents to get dinner ready and help with homework. This means that another day without attention to physical exercise bites the dust--thus the evolution of perpetuating an inactive lifestyle. We all know that habits are fostered from young onward and need to be reinforced by parents as modelers.

The second category that embeds indifference to being active is the lethargic educator who does not motivate, facilitate, or model activeness within the curriculum. Yet, interestingly, all that we read about brain research emphasizes that learning to move feeds the brain.

I believe that your products serve to gently encourage movement and avoids the 'I can't do it because I don't have the financial where-with-all to invest in the equipment'. You solve that dilemma with materials readily found within the home environment. Previously I taught kindergarten for 13 years and already started to see those students lacking strength, stamina, and agility lining up at the door to be first to go inside, bringing out a toy from home and walk around with it, or opt to just sit and watch. Not only were they fostering a rut of indifference and feeling inferior, they were missing out on the social and emotional relationships with peers that will only escalate if not addressed.

I see many educators just throw equipment out the storage room and say "go play!" Yet, in the classroom we differentiate our instruction and nurture from a solid foundation of the basics. For some odd reason we infrequently implement the same bridging into systematically enhancing skill development toward well-being and self-esteem in a prescribed movement program so that all students will access life long actively pursuits.

Your resource provides the means to offset the indifference to the vital basics that lets children now say, 'I can do it'. Additionally, its parent friendly format is straightforward and not intimidating to caregivers (or teachers) who are 'physically (actively) challenged'. I have my students develop a personal guide based on the steps from the DVD for themselves so that they can implement them within their future classroom.

Thank you for creating such a user-friendly resource. I anticipate further great products from you in the future," says Burow.

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