Beth Gardner

Preschool Safety
Beth Gardner, Heart of Texas Gymnastics
coachbeth@stonemedia.com
materials available at gymsmarts.com
blog at gymsmartscommunity.com
Preschool children present their own set of criteria within the gym environment.  The differences do not stop at those skills which  we teach preschoolers and how we teach them.  Rather, they include the safety issues of which we should be aware.
Safety warnings
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So, as I was strolling the net and reading the forums out there, a new gym parent asked the question, “Is there such a thing as too much stretching in preschool?” 
I think she was a little concerned about preschool warm-ups.  Regarding stretching and warm-ups, here are a few things of which we all need to be […]

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I was surfing through some gymnastics sites and ran across a site in which people were discussing bridging in preschoolers.  It has been such a controversial issue for a long time, and it is a never ending debate among coaches.
 So, I thought I would post my response to the issue here as well as on […]

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