Tag: kids

A new children’s indoor play space, Kids Avenue was created out of a father’s love. Roi Shlomo, the entrepreneur behind Yogli Mogli and Kale Me Crazy, wanted to spend time with his two-and-a-half-year-old daughter in a safe and educational environment. He was operating an event facility in Buckhead, but he wasn’t passionate about it. “I was going to sublease the space and had a deal in place. It was a rainy weekend, and I was stuck home with my daughter without anywhere to go. I cancelled the deal and turned the space into a kids’ heaven,” he explains.

Beloved bookstore Little Shop of Stories will host the Decatur Children’s Book Festival at venues around downtown Decatur from May 3 to 5. Decatur’s bookish reputation enticed more than 40 authors to appear at the children’s festival, including keynote speaker Kate DiCamillo, author of such award-winning books as Because of Winn-Dixie and The Tale of Despereaux.

It’s never too early to start teaching values, and Atlanta journalist and author Allison Entrekin’s new book, The Goose Who Talked to the Wind, accomplishes that with a subtlety children won’t even notice. Targeted at ages 3 to 5, the 32-page illustrated story tells a tale of an unnamed goose who hears a message from the wind, guiding him to go in a different direction from his flock.

“I’m not typically a kid person,” says Coach Marci. “I don’t have any children of my own, so I’m not super emotional about children. I think that gives me an advantage.” The advantage: teaching kids to swim, which Marci does in weeklong clinics from spring to fall. She isn’t exactly warm and fuzzy in coach mode, but she’s become a sought-after instructor in certain circles among parents who send kids as young as six months.

Another immersive experience for children has launched—this one in Dunwoody. Camp is a new store, play space, and interactive show with eight locations across the country. Each Camp location features a different theme—in Dunwoody, Camp partnered with Disney to create a Little Mermaid experience. Here's what to know before you take the kids.

Like everything Disney, the Immersive Disney Animation experience is upbeat and playful. At one-and-a-half hours, it can get monotonous for adults, but my children never got bored.

After 10 years on the third floor of Phipps Plaza, the LEGO Discovery Center shut its doors for renovation in September 2022. Today, it reopens with four new activities, plus additional reinvigorated areas. The $5 million-dollar renovation covers more than 35,000 square feet and 10 zones ranging from building areas to a 4-D theater.

Sloomoo dubs itself as a “celebration of sensory play.” Glue-based slime is the main attraction, and here, it comes in an endless assortment of textures and colors. Kinetic sand, familiar sounds, and meditative abstract videos provide other methods of well-paced simulation.

Like a perfect storm, the onslaught of the more transmissible delta variant coincided with the start of school, and now, rates of new Covid infections are rising faster among school-aged children than among adults.

Can you ever feel comfortable letting children bike solo around a city with countless hills and roaring cars, one that’s still recovering from generations of autocentric planning? Is that traditional rite-of-passage still safe? Absolutely.