Name: Kids Club
Start: 2026-06-14T14:00:00-04:00
End: 2026-06-14T15:00:00-04:00
Location: Pet Supplies Plus Athens

A fun, free, educational community event to help foster better relationships between kids and dogs (and make your life a little easier too!)
About this Event

Sit Happens Dog Training & Behavior, LLC & the Your Family Dog Podcast are joining up to bring your family Kids Club! This event is for the whole family to help make relationships between kids and dogs (even if your family doesn't have one) safer and more fun. Kids between PreK and up are invited (and must be accompanied by an adult or guardian - pesky insurance). There will be no live dogs at this event.

FAQ

Teaching Safety without Fear We can teach kids through games and activities with stuffed dogs long before they come into contact with real dogs. This way fearful kiddos have a safe way to practice the skills so you can support them at home.
Training - Teaching kids about how to teach dogs the things they want them to know... like helping with jumping up, or playing hide and go seek. Fun, safe training games.
Enrichment - Ways to help foster happy, healthy, respectful, kind relationships. Learning how dogs signal and how to communicate in ways that build confidence.

We are pulling together materials from a variety of organizations to create this fun, educational and enriching program for our community.

Ages: Open to kids PreK and up, we will have activities for different age groups.

Cost: Free.

Parent resources: With summer upon us, lots of parents are thinking towards activities to keep kiddos learning and playing through the summer and we will feature some great resources for you!

WHAT TO BRING:

Your patience hat and sense of humor.

Who are We?

Tina has been the Southeast United States Regional Coordinator for Doggone Safe, an international dog bite prevention and victim suppor organization, since 2003. She's been a Family Paws educator since 2003, helping to prepare dogs for life with infants and toddlers. She is the owner of Sit Happens Dog Training & Behavior, LLC and the Your Family Dog Podcast, LLC, which has been around since 2016, helping make life with kids and dogs easier and way more fun! She as a foster parent to kiddos and is an adoptive parent and is now a grandparent.

Eliza is a home school mom and new puppy owner with a newly 5 year old daughter who is helping keep the "Momma" in the program and helping all of us keep our sanity.

Children under 18 years of age must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.