PetMassage for Kids Curriculum for Ten Week After School Program
3:00 - 4:00 PM
Grades 2-7
PetMassage for Kids™ is based on tested and validated skills and teaching methods developed over twelve years of teaching more than one hundred week-long professional level canine massage workshops for adults. Your teachers will find our teaching guides enjoyable and easy to follow. Your kids will love the classes, too!
As educators and adults, we understand the value of touch and how therapeutic a massage can be. We also understand the powerful connections children have with their dogs at home. This course teaches the values of compassionate touch using their stuffed dogs as the vehicle. Working with stuffed dogs, rather than live ones, also makes for a very safe, fun, and liability-free environment.
The PetMassage for Kids™ program teaches children the basic hands-on skills of canine massage and principles of dog handling safety. They learn the basic handling, touching, holding, stroking, and other PetMassage techniques with their stuffed dogs. Confidence in their new abilities grows while important psycho-social skills develop naturally, including
- body language awareness
- control
- patience
- respect
- and empathy
PetMassage for Kids™ has exercises for children to become consciously aware of their senses, to observe and respect another's space, to become aware of how their actions can affect others, and, of course, how to optimize the power of gentleness and touch sensitivity.
Kids discover that their body language, facial expressions and even their thoughts can have powerful effects on others, especially their sensitive dogs. Learning and practicing PetMassage™ is more that just petting dogs!
PetMassage for Kids™ texts and curriculum:
The three-part set
The book, "Dogs Kids PetMassage"
The DVD, "PetMassage: A Kid's Guide to Massaging Dogs,"
The audio CD, "PetMassage Doggie Songs for Kids"
The curricula:
The PetMassage for Kids five-day summer school curriculum
And/or The PetMassage for Kids ten week after school curriculum
The introductory price for the PetMassage for Kids™ curriculum is only $50 for one program, and $75 for both. It does not include the three-part set of study materials that retails for $47.85.
