What Shakespeare Can Teach You About Indoor Playground

This is a question I have asked quite often when I tell folks that I own a drama café. "Is that like a indoor play gym with slips and rock climbing structures and trampolines?" I guess that is what happens when you introduce a totally new concept to your town.
Indoor playgrounds have existed for a while, and there are many of them in our town of Burlington and neighbouring cities of Oakville and Hamilton. They're the places you take your children to when they wish to burn off their energy if it's too cold outside to go to the park, or whenever you don't need them to tear your house apart. They are the places where your children can run around through mazes, climb ropes, and slide down slides and let out all of the mad!
It was really at an indoor park the notion of Chickadee Family Cafe was born in my head. I had taken my afterward two-and-a-half year old to a favorite indoor play area within our hometown Burlington and tried to keep him up as he raced down slides and throughout mazes. I crouched into miniature corners chasing my little guy around and came out completely exhausted (proceed, insert jokes about how out of shape I'm here).
When I arose in the drama arrangements, I looked around me at the other parents. Many were standing around trying to maintain a visual on their kids indoor playground' whereabouts. Some were phoning their kids' names, hoping that they weren't stuck in a maze...'cause c am on, most of us know no grownup really wants to need to climb all the way up those structures to retrieve a crying child. Mostly, they looked exhausted and tired. Maybe their kids awakened at 6am too.
Don't get me wrong, there was plenty of laughter and giggles. I had fun with my son, that was the main aim of going to the indoor playground, but in a place filled with other moms and dads around my age with children around my son's age, there was a huge opportunity for building relationship with my community that I believed was completely overlooked. But the air didn't actually lend itself to having an actual conversation.
I began to research what was out there to get a few superior mother -- son time that didn't require me to crawl on my hands and knees and squeeze my buttocks through a tunnel fit for a toddler. I found play cafes. Play cafes are relatively new to Canada, but have been around the united kingdom, Australia and the US for several years. A drama café combines the requirements of both parents and kids, fueling parents with caffeinated beverages while supplying ample play space for kids to explore and have fun.
Play cafes accept the community-focused way of a café and incorporate a play space for kids. At Chickadee Family Café, we provide that coffee shop atmosphere which you are used to sipping your latte in as well as an enjoyable child-friendly environment full of creative and toys based drama actions. Once the play space is closed and the kiddos are in bed, our space can easily transform in a day meeting space for parent workshops, a couples' date night or a meeting place for mompreneurs.
While most indoor playgrounds either don't provide meals or function up fast food options or vending machine snacks, a drama café is a full-service café with espresso based beverages along with a hearty menu of healthy snacks and lunch items.
A drama café is a bridge between an early years' centre and your regional trendy café. Most play cafes offer child and parent classes and parenting supports through workshops and support groups, many things you can anticipate in Chickadee Family Café.
I hope that helped to clarify the gap between an indoor playground and a play café.