{"id":10995,"date":"2016-03-13T09:35:35","date_gmt":"2016-03-13T13:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/atlanta\/?p=10995"},"modified":"2016-03-13T09:35:35","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T13:35:35","slug":"10995","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/atlanta\/inspirational-stories\/10995","title":{"rendered":"GiGi\u2019s Playhouse through the eyes of Anari vs. Mommy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>GiGi\u2019s Playhouse: Two Perspectives<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">When Anari hears that she is going to GiGi&#8217;s she thinks of playing dress-up, and playing in the kitchen and house area with her friends (Social Skills). She thinks of playing with paint and shaving cream, rolling Playdoh; tearing paper, and pulling apart cotton (Fine Motor skills). She thinks of sitting and rolling on big balls, running and jumping at Piedmont (when weather permits), walking on beams, climbing stairs, riding gliders, and throwing water balloons, balls, and objects at specific targets (Gross Motor skills). She thinks of singing songs and reading stories (Speech and Language skills). She thinks of playing at different stations (Skill Builders). I can\u2019t convince the child that she is NOT just playing but she is LEARNING!!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">However, when mommy thinks of GiGi&#8217;s Playhouse, she thinks of a Playhouse of therapy. A Playhouse where children receive therapy in fun and unrecognizable ways.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>In Boot Camp, she receives therapy on balance, coordination, and muscle tone. In Skill Builders, she works on building and sustaining her attention span, transitioning, and social and academic skills needed for school.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>In Handwriting Without Tears, she learns the correct formation of letters and numbers via strengthening her small muscles. The list goes on and on. But the most important thing that mommy thinks of when she thinks of GiGi\u2019S Playhouse\u00a0is the opportunity that it\u00a0provides both Anari in reaching her goals and mommy\u2019s goals of her becoming a model, motivational speaker, teacher, lawyer, judge, or a Nobel Prize recipient. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">GiGi&#8217;s Playhouse sees her potential and dreams big with me.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GiGi\u2019s Playhouse: Two Perspectives When Anari hears that she is going to GiGi&#8217;s she thinks of playing dress-up, and playing in the kitchen and house area with her friends (Social Skills). She thinks of playing with paint and shaving cream, rolling Playdoh; tearing paper, and pulling apart cotton (Fine Motor skills). She thinks of sitting&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":11000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[54,53],"class_list":["post-10995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inspirational-stories","tag-play","tag-therapy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/atlanta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/atlanta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/atlanta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/atlanta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/atlanta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/atlanta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/atlanta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/atlanta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/atlanta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/atlanta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}