FUN TIMES AT GOLDFISH SWIM SCHOOL

Of course, swimming lessons can be a lot of fun!  But there are also lots of other good times to be had beyond just participating in classes at Goldfish Swim School. Here are four of my family's favorite things that make this swimming school extra fun to go to:

Water Safety Day

Once a year Goldfish Swim School opens its doors to anyone in the community to stop in for a day of activities that make learning about water safety fun.  This FREE event includes lifeguard demonstrations in the pool, a presentation by Bubbles ( the Goldfish Swim School mascot), and swim class instructors providing tips about water safety. Taking place just before summer break from school for most kids begins, this is a great time to think about rules and skills that are important to ensure that everyone in your family is safe during a season that is often full of spending time in and around water.

Going to Water Safety Day is always a good time because in addition to the water safety focus of the event it also has a festive carnival atmosphere to it.  The school provides lots of entertaining activities and games plus food to enjoy. All at no cost to anyone who attends!

Our local Goldfish Swim School parks bounce houses and food trucks in their parking lot for Water Safety Day. Their staff plays games with children who stop by to participate in the event and there is a balloon artist who makes wonderful creations for the kids. Families can even take a dip in the pool while they are at Goldfish Swim School for Water Safety Day.

Water Safety Day activities and dates may vary from franchise to franchise so check with your local Goldfish Swim School to find out what they have planned.  CLICK HERE to find a Goldfish Swim School location near you.  If you aren't a member of Goldfish Swim School this is a great opportunity to check out the facility and meet staff. For those who already attend it is a nice opportunity to have fun with other Goldfish families and interact with your children's swimming instructors.

Family Swim Time

Goldfish Swim School opens up its pool at lunch time on week days throughout the year to its member families. This is a wonderful chance for kids to practice their swimming but also a nice opportunity for a family to have fun playing in the water together.  When the kids have days off during the school year or during summer break, we take advantage of this free perk all the time! We've had some great times and memorable moments during Family Swim Time at Goldfish Swim School.

Family Night Out

Once a month, Goldfish Swim School hosts a Friday evening where families can come out to enjoy activities, crafts and games as well as swim in the pool. This night of family fun also includes pizza and snacks. Family Night Outs often have a theme to them. One of our favorite Family Nights Out at Goldfish Swim School involved my kids participating in an Easter Egg hunt and meeting the Easter Bunny. 

Family Night Out at Goldfish Swim School is always a fun time! There is a nominal fee to participate which at our location is $5 per person or $15 per family. Check with your local Goldfish Swim School for date and details.

Balloons

Kids can always get a FREE balloon after their swimming class at Goldfish Swim School. My daughter LOVES balloons! A balloon will always put a smile on her face.

In addition to balloons, Goldfish Swim School also gives out a unique reward for completing swim classes to kids each week. For example for St. Patrick's Day this year they gave out Leprechaun hats that week. Other weeks prizes may range from a variety of items featuring Bubbles such as coloring pages, sticker sheets and temporary tattoos.  A favorite with kids though are the Bubbles bath toys. From pirate to scuba diver each month there is a new toy that Goldfish swimmers can get.

Goldfish Swim School provides swimming lessons and water safety instruction for toddlers to twelve year olds. My kids have been swimming at Goldfish for a number of years now. Our family has truly had a golden experience! The kids not only have had a lot of fun but their swimming and water safety skills have gotten to be very impressive. I hate to admit it but they may be better swimmers than me now.

Dive in to having your family swim there by heading over to goldfishswimschool.com Tell them ageekdaddy.com sent you!

A Geek Daddy receives free products and services from Goldfish Swim School as a brand ambassador. The opinions expressed are honest and my own. They have absolutely earned ageekdaddy.com nod of approval from my own kids experiences at Goldfish Swim School.

COMET TV DECEMBER GIVEAWAY

For awhile it looked like traditional over the air television was dying out the same way things such as cassette tapes and landline telephones have gone extinct due to advances in technology. Despite satellite transmissions, cable networks, and Internet streaming, broadcasting television signals through the airwaves is making a comeback! There are more channels to watch on your television that can be pulled from the air with the use of a digital antenna and viewed for FREE than ever before in U.S. history.  Driven by demand from cable TV cord cutters, new channels like COMET TV which broadcasts programing with science fiction and horror genre themes, are growing in popularity.

COMET TV wants to give people some sci-fi spirit during the holiday season. During the month of December, COMET TV will be highlighting showings of the original Terminator movie (1984) and the Blair Witch Project (1999) along with hosting a Christmas Day Babylon 5 Marathon. Plus every weekday at 10pm ET/PT throughout the month you can tune into their AREA 10 timeslot which will be showing each night a different cult classic film The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai to Haunted Honeymoon.

Babylon 5 (Christmas Marathon)

This Christmas, after you sip your egg nog and trim the tree, turn on COMET TV for a spacey Christmas Marathon! Starting at 10am ET/PT on Christmas Day you can catch up on this classic sci-fi series!

The Blair Witch Project (1999)

There’s something sinister lurking in Black Hills Forest and missing girl’s disappearance is linked to the legend of The Blair Witch! A group heads into the woods to find out what happened and the footage found after will send a chill down your spine. Don’t turn your back because you don’t know what’s lurking behind you.

Saturday, December 15 at 5pm ET/PT

Monday, December 17 at 1pm 

Thursday, December 20 at MIDNIGHT

Monday, December 24 at 2am

Saturday, December 29 at 12:30am

The Terminator (1984)

The original classic that started the franchise is airing on Comet TV! Catch Arnold Schwarzenegger and Linda Hamilton in their classic roles trying to defeat Skynet from launching total human extinction. Relive the first time you heard, “Come with me if you want to live.”

Friday, December 14 at 3pm ET/PT

Wednesday, December 19 at 10pm

 Wednesday, December 26 at 1pm

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The best in cult classic films are airing all month long on Comet TV! If you’re in the mood for laughs check out Haunted Honeymoon, if you fancy a trip book your ticket to Futureworld, join Ah-Nuld for The Terminator and who doesn’t have those Jeepers Creepers!

Enjoy some COMET TV cheer this month by watching their December lineup of shows and movies along with entering our ageekdaddy.com giveaway of some sci-fi swag from the television station. For a chance to win just complete the rafflecopter entries below by 11:59 pm ET on December 19, 2018. Must be a United States resident over 18 years old to participate. One lucky winner will be selected from all eligible entries. If you've won the same prize in this promotion from another website, COMET TV reserves the right to have us select an alternate winner as you will already be receiving this swag pack from them. COMET TV will be responsible for delivery of the prize. Good luck!

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The Comet TV December Prize Pack includes:

 1 – Limited Edition Terminator Muscle Shirt – Show off those guns! Figuratively and literally in this awesome Terminator Tee! Do some flexing and share your pics on the gram! #CometTV

 1 – Exclusive Blair Witch Holiday Ornament – Deck the halls and ring in the new year with the Blair Witch! This hand-crafted ornament will bring holiday scares to you and those you love!

1 – Terminator Dog Tag – John Connor is the leader of the resistance and this promo dog tag set will get you ready to battle the cyborgs of the future!

1 – Babylon 5 and Space: 1999 Custom Snack Box – This is the perfect treat to celebrate any trip to space. It might require some popping, but this custom box will satisfy any spacey craving!

COMET TV is broadcast on Channel 50-2 in the Detroit area. Visit comettv.org for more information about finding the channel it is being broadcast on near you and additional scheduling details of movies and TV shows it is airing.

DISCLAIMER: A Geek Daddy did not receive any financial compensation for hosting this giveaway, but did receive a prize pack similar to the one being given away for personal use.

DISCONTINUED

I had the chance to take a stroll down nostalgia lane this weekend while watching an advance screener of a new show called DISCONTINUED that The CW Network sent me to check out. Directed by Brian Volk-Weiss, the creator of the popular Netflix docuseries "The Toys That Made Us," DISCONTINUED highlights fallen pop culture titans ranging from the Speak & Spell educational toy featured in the Steven Spielberg movie E.T. to the Sears Catalog which served as the Wish Book for generations of kids making out their lists of gift ideas for Santa Claus.

DISCONTINUED will be a special presentation aired by The CW Network on Sunday, December 16, 2018 at 9:30 pm ET/PT.  Have to say I found myself chuckling throughout the show. In addition to products and publications, the show also touches on topics like brand mascots such as the Taco Bell Chihuahua (did you know the dog's name was Gidget) and the Chiquita Banana Lady along with businesses that have gone bye bye like Blockbuster Video and more recently Toys R Us.

The part of the show I really enjoyed was that it interviews a number of comedians about all these  discontinued things that at one time or another were really popular. They include King Hassan, Anthony Desamito, Helen Hong and Carlos Alazraqui (the voice of the Taco Bell dog) among others. Their segments are filled with hilarious wise cracks that I could personally relate to and had me laughing a lot while watching DISCONTINUED. Volk-Weiss did an excellent job putting together this comedic commentary.

The show is hosted by YouTube influencer Andre Meadows and unfortunately that was the one downside of DISCONTINUED for me. This is an example of how growing a following on social media doesn't necessarily transfer over to actually being entertaining. He seems like a nice guy, but whenever Andre was on the screen I couldn't wait for his bits to be discontinued. Sorry Andre!

To make up for ripping on Andre here is a plug for his YouTube channel by showing a promo of him talking about DISCONTINUED with Brian Volk-Weiss:



Overall, I enjoyed the majority of what I saw during my sneak peek of DISCONTINUED. So I'll give it A GEEK DADDY nod of approval and encourage you to check it out on December 16 over at The CW Network. Remember to tune in at 9:30 pm either East or West Coast time.

Oh and I made a discovery about something hadn't realized was discontinued while watching the show. Planters Cheez Balls had been discontinued! When did that happen? Come to speak of it don't recall the last time I saw a tin of them. Though during my childhood, I can't count the number of Planters Cheez Balls tins my family went through … it was a lot! So cheesy!

OOZO TWITTER PARTY

It is slime time! Things are about to get oozy and slimy! A Geek Daddy is co-hosting another Toy Insider Twitter Party this week where we'll learn all about the oozing slime spheres called OOZ-O's from Horizon Group. We'll be giving away some of these new science kit sets that get kids learning about chemical reactions while having fun so make sure to join in the PARTY!

With OOZ-O’s, a new line of slimy science kits from Horizon Group, kids can make their own slime-filled orbs for a gooey day of play. A twist on the DIY slime-making trend, each OOZ-O’s kit makes 12 perfectly round 3-D slimy spheres, filled with more ooey, gooey slime inside. The colorful and glittery slime kit introduces kids to basic chemistry while expressing their creativity. Read the full review by my friends at the Toy Insider here.



Follow @Geekdad248, @TheToyInsider, and @HorizonGroupUSA, jump in on the conversation taking place between 11 am - Noon ET on Friday, September 7, 2018 using the hashtag #oozos, and completing the RSVP form. Must be over 18 years old and live within the United States to be eligible for prizes. Hope to see you there!