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...Children's Museum attendance is down almost a third since 1998. The Isabella Stewart Gardner museum has seen admissions decline 15 percent. Even the MFA has lost 8 percent of its yearly visitors...
Museums are taking steps to combat decreased attendance, including everything from visitor surveys at the Children's Museum to a concentrated programming effort at the Gardner...
...exercise brings on hormonal changes," she says. "Children should not practice it because it affects their growth system." There are no studies supporting that contention, but Christensen says there has not been enough time to assess yoga's long-term damage to young bodies. Hogwash, counter instructors like Marita Gardner-Anopol, who teaches yoga at preschools and elementary schools in New Jersey. "Does ballet interfere with natural changes in the body? Skiing? Ice skating?" says Gardner-Anopol. "Come on. Children are active from the time they are three...
They called it the "Miracle on the Mat" when Rulon Gardner of Wyoming defeated Russia's Alexander Karelin for Olympic gold in Greco-Roman wrestling earlier this year. Gardner, who had only enjoyed moderate success in his career, beat a man who hadn't been scored upon in ten years...
...benefits can go beyond fun. Ryan Cooper, a seventh-grader in Gardner, Kans., used to get teased by classmates for being shy and overweight. During his four years with grade-school PE teacher KaCee Chambers, whom he credits with encouraging and motivating him, he went from not being able to do a single pull-up to setting the school record. Says Ryan, who also lost 10% of his body fat: "I don't take anything from anyone now!" In Naperville, Lawler recently detected unusually high cholesterol levels in one three-sport middle school athlete, who got medical attention and altered...