Your Gift Helps Kids Begin a Lifetime of Noble Character!

Those experiences can become early lessons in empathy.

 

That principle is important to Bowler's Ed. Bowling creates repeated opportunities for children to experience one another differently. A highly athletic child may discover that another student has an unexpected ability. A child who struggles may hear classmates cheering after finally knocking down the pins. Students experience winning, missing, waiting, trying again and celebrating someone else's success.

 

Those may appear to be small moments. But small moments between children can become practice for something much larger: becoming adults who notice, encourage, include and serve other people.

 

A donar considering helping Learn2Bowl might therefore ask:

 

• Who were the children you remember from elementary school?

• Was there a friend who made you feel included?

• Was there someone whose struggles taught you compassion?

• Did another child ever stand up for you - or did you stand up for someone else?

 

You may not have recognized those experiences as character education when you were eight or nine years old. You were simply becoming a person.

 

That is the deeper opportunity your help provides. Bowler's Ed puts children together in an activity where encouragement, patience, fairness, perseverance, teamwork and kindness can occur naturally. The purpose is not merely to teach children how to bowl. It is to give them another place to practice how to treat one another.

 

Someday, a child participating in Bowler's Ed may remember very little about the equipment or the lesson plan. But that child might remember the classmate who cheered. And perhaps, years later, when someone else needs encouragement, inclusion or help, that childhood experience will quietly influence what that person chooses to do.

 

A relatively small investment can create thousands of opportunities for children to practice the human qualities they may carry into adulthood.