10 Myths About the American Development Model

I realize any change—good, bad or indifferent—is still a change and can be difficult for people to accept. So I started to collect a few of the negative comments I have heard about the American Development Model (ADM) with regards to cross-ice play, all in the hopes that I can dispel these myths.



1. IT ISN'T REAL HOCKEY. USING HALF THE SURFACE AND THE SMALLER NETS WON'T HELP KIDS LEARN THE REAL GAME. Do other sports ask their youngest athletes to play on a full-size football field, use a 10' basketball net, run 90' bases or use a full-size soccer net? No. Smaller fields and equipment are used everywhere except in hockey. Age-appropriate surfaces and equipment help put the game into perspective for younger kids, allow for better development of their skills and, most importantly, help make the game more fun for the kids!

2. IT WILL BE TOO CROWDED ON THE ICE. I have now seen two practices in person with 60+ Mites on the ice at the same time and have watched multiple videos of practices with the same amount (or more) and have yet to see it look crowded. Well-planned practices with the right number of coaches to help run stations are effective ways to use ice efficiently without crowding. All of the kids I witnessed at these practices and jamborees were engaged in fun drills or games with lots of puck time and plenty of smiles!

3. THE KIDS WON'T LEARN TEAMWORK. How much teamwork is involved with one skater taking the puck from one end of a full sheet of ice, skating it all the way down, and then shooting before most of the other teammates can catch up or get involved in the play? You know you have seen it at a Mite full-ice game over and over. Cross-ice forces kids to work together in smaller areas to develop scoring opportunities and be creative.

4. THE KIDS WON'T LEARN TO SKATE. The ADM actually emphasizes age-appropriate skating drills and places a lot of focus on fun drills and activities that help players develop more over the long term. The smaller areas also help kids increase their quickness and explosive speed, which is best developed at the younger ages.

5. THE KIDS WON'T LEARN ABOUT POSITIONING. It won’t matter if kids know where to be if they can’t skate there or if they don’t enjoy the game. Also, teaching positions too early can stifle creativity and the ability to think on the fly. When they are older, players can learn more about positioning, breakouts, and forechecking systems without hurting their development early on.

6. THE ADM IS ONLY FOR THE AVERAGE PLAYER. Kids learn, grow and develop at different speeds. The 7-year-olds who you think might be the next superstar may not develop as fast as others later on. Providing good coaching and development to all is important when kids are young since early segmentation has proven to be unreliable as a predictor of which kids will develop into elite athletes. It’s best for those kids who excel early on to continue to focus on age-appropriate drills that will best help their long-term development. Those drills can help both the 6-year-old who has been skating for three years and the 8-year-old who is enjoying his first season.

7. HOW WILL KIDS GET IN SHAPE OR GET THEIR CONDITIONING? Have you battled for a puck in the corner and gone back and forth in about a 10' space for 20 seconds? Have you ever gone back and forth between the point and the slot four times? There are numerous ways kids can get conditioned in small areas or in small games, so don’t worry about missing out on that aspect with the ADM. There are a lot more ways than skating lines on a full sheet to build up conditioning, especially with fun drills and small-area games that keep kids smiling and wanting more even though they are dead tired!

8. TOO MUCH FUN IS A BAD THING. Really? If the kids are enjoying the puck touches, small games and scoring, and are learning to love development, how can that ever be a bad thing? I just don’t get that comment but hey, people have said it (I can’t make this stuff up). Think about it. If the kids come off the ice tired, developed, smiling and excited about when they can come back again for more, where is the down side? I wish everyone could find something they enjoy so much that is also great for their long-term development!

9. THE RINKS AND ASSOCIATIONS ARE JUST TRYING TO MAKE MORE MONEY BY JAMMING MORE KIDS ON THE ICE. It couldn’t be further from the truth. First, re-read the myth about crowding. Second, more efficient use of the ice can decrease your costs and can increase the number of times you practice each week. I, too, was once a hockey snob when my kids were younger and thought they needed more full ice. They would have been better developed if they had used the ice they had more efficiently and practiced more often than having a full sheet all to themselves. This could have improved their skills, made the game even more enjoyable, and helped reduced the costs mom and dad incurred each season.

10. THE KIDS WON'T HAVE AS MUCH FUN. Ask your kids if they like to play games or stand around? Ask them if they like to carry the puck and score goals? Ask them if they like whistles and stoppages in play? Kids invariable have more fun when they are actively engaged during practice or in a game. High-energy drills, variety of drills, drills with pucks and small games all help develop kids while they are having loads of fun! Also cross-ice games support these same ideals with more puck touches, more scoring opportunities and less stoppages and make for a more enjoyable game for everyone involved!

USA Hockey put a lot of research and effort into looking at how to approach the game—so give the ADM a chance when your organization implements the model. I am very confident you’ll be pleasantly surprised with the results!

Editor’s Note: Thank you to Kevin Universal, president of the Carolina Amateur Hockey Association, for this story.

The Potential of Late Bloomers

Just a few quick thoughts on the mindset of youth hockey. I have heard at least 10 parents, players and coaches claim that a 14-year-old kid is the best player in the world—or at least North America. Pretty ridiculous. Everyone in youth hockey is so concerned and preoccupied with the best player at his or her age group: Who has the most points, who is going to play junior early, who is being scouted.



This emphasis on the “best” seems to push the fun out of the game, causing kids that may mature later physically and skill-wise to question their place in the game. I would guess many potential late bloomers even quit when faced with this onslaught of pedestal rising at such a young age. Meanwhile, at NHL training camps, teams are stressing patience and slowly bringing prospects forward. So why can a group of people—NHL executives—with more than 100 collective years of professional experience look past point production or speed because they see something in a player that a Midget team can’t?

I just finished reading an article on Tyler Bozak, who plays for Toronto. He is slated to be the first line center this year next to Phil Kessel. Bozak is two years older than Kessel and went undrafted because he was 5'9" at age 18; it took him until the age of 24 to see his first games. Kessel was lighting it up in the NHL while Bozak was still playing Junior hockey. Yet Coach Ron Wilson thinks Bozak can produce 60 points or more this year. What if Bozak saw Kessel on TV and, instead of dreaming of playing on the same line, became dejected that he was only in the Juniors and gave up? This is one of many examples of two different roads leading to the same destination.

The people you meet, the places you get to see and the experience of going through the ups and downs of being part of a team is what the game is all about. So don’t try to rush yourself into the NHL at the age of 12—or beat yourself up because you don’t have as many points as Jordan from the rival team. Enjoy each game, give it your all and if you enjoy lacing them up, then stick with it. You never know what back-door route will take you to the NHL, and if you don’t make it, then you most definitely had a lot of fun along the way. I certainly did.

Hockey is a lifelong game that will give you immediate friendships at every turn. If you can skate and shoot, you can join the nearest adult league and become an instant member of the hockey brotherhood anywhere in the world there’s ice.

Editor’s Note: Thank you to Brett Henning of Score100goals.com for this story.

25 Hockey Stocking Stuffers!

Let your fingers do the walking this year, and order up your hockey player’s stocking stuffers on Cyber Monday. Augment with a few items from your local NHL team and rink, and you have it made! Too busy to read this list? Click here for HockeyShot’s quick list. Both HockeyShot.com and TotalHockey.net are offering 10% off your order today (Monday, Nov. 29) with the promotional code GROWHS2010 (HockeyShot) and CYBER10 (TotalHockey). Need a great idea for mom? Order an engraved stainless steel hockey “dog tag” with your player’s name and number.

1. Colorado Avalanche tickets for your family plus a friend! Use your Player Pass to raise money for your association at the same time.


2. Skate sharpening punch card for your player’s favorite sharpening service.


3. Stick-and-puck or open-skate punch card for a local rink.


4. Skate towel from your NHL team or hockey association.


5. Books such as Laura Stamm’s Power Skating, Hockey Speed and Power or 7 Pre-Game Habits of Pro Hockey Players


6. Clear tape


7. Deodorizers


8. Growing Up Hockey DVD


9. Healing necklace or bracelet


10. Helmet defogger


11. Helmet numbers


12. Helmet repair kit


13. Mini hockey sets and equipment*


14. Neck guard


15. Shooting targets


16. Skate guards


17. Skate laces**


18. Skate socks


19. Skate weights


20. Skating videos


21. Stick tape**


22. Stick wax


23. Stick weight


24. Training pucks and balls***


25. Water bottle

*Question: How many is too many mini-hockey sticks? Answer: A kid can never have too many.

**Question: Can you ever have too many laces or too much tape. Answer: No.

***Question: Does your player think he or she needs more training pucks and balls? Answer: Yes.

Editor’s Note: Thank you to Kelly Kordes Anton with the Grow the Game Initiative for this story.

25 Mid-Season Hockey Tips

As we get into the heart of hockey season—not to mention holiday tournaments—parents, coaches, captains and players may be looking for inspiration. Use this list to jumpstart a team meeting or chat with a player. Never quit! Communicate! Manage the clock! Take pride in your team! Maybe you’ve heard it all before, but it certainly never hurts to hear it all again.

1. BE HARD TO PLAY AGAINST by being the hardest working team on the ice.


2. FACEOFFS: Your center is your most important player on the ice. THE CENTER IS YOUR QUARTERBACK. He or she needs to make sure everyone is lined up properly and ready for battle. Hockey is a game of possession and centers need to know how important it is to win the faceoff—the very first battle of the game or play. Centers need to quietly let their wingers know if he or she is going forward or backward. Centers can take the puck straight on or with the back of the stick.


3. COMMUNICATION. All six players on the ice need to talk to each other. The goalie has the best of view of the ice, so they should be talking to the defensemen the entire game. Listen to one another and pass to the open player. Get your heads on straight and start thinking and talking.


4. AREA PASSES put the puck in safe places on the ice to regain control. When you enter the offensive zone, chip the puck along the boards instead of dumping the puck in—to give yourself time. You are giving yourself a little area pass.


5. NEVER QUIT NO MATTER WHAT THE SCORE. You can always come back. And you are on the ice. Remember ice time is precious. Even if you lose, keep battling and go down fighting, talking and connecting as a team.


6. GAME PREPARATION: Get to games early. Stretch, focus, think positive thoughts and think about your job on the ice. Remember to talk to your teammates out there and listen to each other. Get into the zone by working together as a team. Psyche each other up as a team in the locker room.


7. BLOCK SHOTS. Step up and master this skill. You will find yourself making any team you want.


8. BEAT YOUR OPPONENTS TO THE PUCK. You are engaging in races all over the ice.


9. WIN YOUR BATTLE. Each player should engage in battles all over the ice. Even if you don’t have the puck, win the battle against your opponent by creating time, space and an area.


10. CLOCK MANAGEMENT. The last minute of the period, play smart whether your team is up or down by a goal. Are you pulling your goalie? If so, get ready to hustle double time.


11. HIT THE NET and be ready for rebounds.


12. PAY THE PRICE to make the play! Take a hit or block a shot, great ways to earn points with your coach. These are key intangibles that all players can bring to the ice.


13. ACCOUNTABILITY—if you make a mistake own it. Look in the mirror.


14. MOVE THE PUCK. The puck moves faster than the body. Don’t be selfish and try to carry the puck end to end. Pass it up to your teammate who is ahead of you and open. Forwards need to be aware of the teammate who has the puck, skate up ahead, find and area on the ice to get open and wait for the pass. Carrying the puck slows you down, so get it to your open winger.


15. STOP THE SELFISH PENALTIES. Lazy penalties have consequences.


16. CONSISTENCEY of coaching. Make sure you have the same rules for all players regarding being late or absent to practices or the way you correct them on the bench. COACHES HAVE TO BE FAIR.


17. POISE WITH THE PUCK. Remember, you have more time than you think but not as much as you’d like.


18. TAKE PRIDE IN THE TEAM. Play as a five-man cohesive group.


19. CENTERS ARE THE THIRD DEFENSEMAN. Always support the puck in the defensive zone, keep your stick on the ice, take away the middle of the ice and play inside the dots.


20. D TO D PASSING in all areas of the ice—spread out and use the whole width of the ice.


21. UNDERSTAND THE GAP. The gap is the most important facet of the game—all areas of the ice take time and space away from opponent.


22. USING YOUR DEFENSE IN THE OFFENSIVE ZONE activates the defense high cycles, including sniper shots to the net. Have them join the attack as five-man units.


23. PLAY HARD WITHOUT THE PUCK. Work to get open and support teammates in all areas of ice.


24. LEADERSHIP. Be first in line and demand excellence from your teammates. Lead by example and others will follow. Speak up and hold everyone on the team accountable for their behavior on—and off—the ice.


25. HAVE FUN in a hard-working environment with rewards for doing small things correctly—like taking a hit, blocking a shot, making a nice assist or big save, drawing a penalty or showing leadership.

Editor’s Note: Thank you to Jeff Serowik of Pro Ambitons Hockey for this story.

Do Flypucks Really Fly?

Flypucks are designed to be used off ice, but slide and feel like a hockey puck does on the ice. Flypucks are the same size as an ice hockey puck but they come in three different weights—4 oz, 6 oz and 8 oz. The 4 oz puck is meant for repetition and speed, the 6 oz to match the weight of a real puck and the 8 oz puck is to build stickhandling muscles. Check out our tests of the slide, feel and durability of each Flypuck on various surfaces while stickhandling, deking, passing, shooting and more. Read the full review here.

SweetHands Stickhandling Trainer Review

SweetHands is a product designed to help players develop and improve their puck handling skills. A common drill that hockey players perform is setting up a line of hockey pucks about a foot apart, and then stick handling through them. The problem is that most players spend more time setting up the pucks—or fetching them after they hit them—rather than stickhandling around them. The SweetHands is basically a souped up line of hockey pucks!



You can do a variety of drills with SweetHands. The objective is to stickhandle under all sections without hitting any of the posts. Some obvious variations would be to stickhandle on your shooting side, while straddling the SweetHands, on your backhand side, and also practice stickhandling back and forth and side to side through the SweetHands.

Read the full overview here and sign up to be notified when the full review is available.

Editor’s Note: Thank you to HockeyReviewHQ.com for this review.

How to Tape a Hockey Stick

Getting a new hockey stick is a big purchase nowadays. When I started playing hockey, I bought $10 wooden Kohos from Canadian Tire. Now I’m dropping $100 for a mid-level, one-piece hockey stick! Some players are spending up to $300 on a stick that might break after a few games. If you are spending that much on a stick, make sure you get the best out of it—and one way to do that is to have a good tape job!

Think of owning a hockey stick like owning a pet. Your stick is your best friend. You take a lot of time to pick it out and the tape job is your time to bond with it. I always look forward to taping a my new stick.

I thought it would be cool to share how I tape my hockey stick and then get some feedback from other hockey players—like you—on how they tape their sticks. If you’re new to hockey, or you’re a parent taping a child’s stick, I hope these videos will help you. While there is no “right way” to tape a stick, and you will eventually learn how you prefer to do it, my techniques should get you started.

How to Tape the Blade of a Hockey Stick

Here I demonstrate how I tape the blade of my hockey stick, and I describe a bunch of other options that I’ve seen teammates and NHL players use.

How to Tape the Grip of a Hockey Stick

Here I show my favorite way to tape a hockey stick grip. I like a decent grip that I create by twirling the hockey tape like a rope and twisting it around the top of my hockey stick. For the knob I use a technique I’ve seen a lot of NHL players using.

After watching these videos, let me know your taping preferences! Click here to comment.

Editor’s Note: Thank you to Jeremy Rupke with HowToHockey.com for this story.

Nonathletes Need Attention Too!

Children and adolescents who are star athletes have no problem in getting lots of attention from their parents. In some families, so much attention is paid to young athletes that nonathletic brothers and sisters may fade into the background. This is most likely to happen when parents are heavily invested in sports themselves and prize athletic accomplishments.

It is important to keep in mind that all children need attention, love and support from parents. When nonathletes feel pushed into the background, parents may find themselves having to deal with jealousy, feelings of rejection and lowered self-esteem.

Find something special in each of your children to love and celebrate.

• Although involvement in sports is to be encouraged and valued, other areas of achievement should be given equal billing. The nonathletic brother who is trying hard in school, who is musically inclined or has a knack for making friends deserves recognition and support just as the athlete does.
• Clearly communicate that each child has unique gifts and endearing qualities and that you are aware of them.
• Emphasize that growing up involves finding out which things youngsters are best at and enjoy most.
• Approval of each child as an individual lays the foundation for self-acceptance in all of your children.

All children deserve quality time with their parents. Your involvement with your athletic son or daughter may vary in degree, but it will almost certainly require a time commitment on your part. This should not detract from personal time with the nonathletic children in your family.

How can you ensure that all of your children are getting attention?

• Keep a daily record of the amount of time spent with each child over a two-week period. You might be surprised to find that a huge amount of time is spent on the activities of the young athlete.
• Block special time around the activities and interests of your other children. When this is done, no child in the family will feel left out.

Editor’s Note: Thank you to Frank L. Smoll, Ph.D., and Ronald E. Smith, Ph.D., for this article. Drs. Smoll and Smith are sport psychologists at the University of Washington and co-directors of the Youth Enrichment in Sports program. To see previews of their Mastery Approach to Parenting in Sports and Mastery Approach to Coaching DVDs, visit www.y-e-sports.com.

Colorado Delays Squirt Tryouts in Favor of Six-Week Evaluation

Imagine you’re a first-year Squirt. As a Mite, you played with friends on evenly drafted teams for four years. You do a few hockey camps in the summer while playing soccer. Then, hockey season starts. You skate a few times to get ready, then show up for Squirt tryouts that last week of August (also the first week of school). You skate the first night, go home, check the website and guess what? You’ve been cut—after a coach looked at you for maybe 30 minutes. Is this any way to treat a 9-year-old? Colorado thinks not.



This year, the Colorado Competitive Youth Hockey League (CCYHL), which governs approximately 70 percent of hockey players in the state, changed the 10 & Under program in favor of the multi-sport athlete, reaping benefits for everyone involved: players, parents, coaches and hockey association directors.

How It Worked

Rather than holding Squirt tryouts at the same time as PeeWee, Bantam and Midget tryouts, the Squirts started a week later around Sept. 7. And rather than dive right into tryouts as usual, the associations focused on skills, drills, and small-area games for approximately five weeks. Associations then held tryouts the week of Oct. 4–7, with league games starting Oct. 15 and the regular season running through March 6 as usual.

During the six-month season, Squirts will still average three to four ice sessions per week and are allowed 45 games (plus playoff games). The practice-to-game ratio stays the same because of the emphasis on practices at the beginning of the season.

Reports from the Inside

While easing Squirts into tryouts in this way was primarily intended to give multi-sport athletes—something widely encouraged by USA Hockey—a chance to get their “hockey legs” under them before tryouts. But as we learned from talking to a USA Hockey representative and three local association directors, the later start and prolonged evaluation reaped major benefits. We talked to:

• Joe Doyle, USA Hockey Manager for the American Development Model in the Rocky Mountain and Pacific Districts plus Montana and Wyoming


• Brian TenEyck, Littleton Hockey Association, Director of Hockey Operations Committee


• John McKibbon, Director of Arvada Hockey Association


• Matt Huckins, Boulder Hockey Club, Director of Hockey Operations

With Doyle’s experience across the state, the span of the Denver metro area covered by Littleton and Arvada, and the Front Range covered by Boulder, we think we captured a good picture of the new program.

Real Opportunity to Play Other Sports

According to USA Hockey’s Doyle, there are three reasons for the later start and new introductory period for Squirts: it creates an age-appropriate length for the hockey season, it allows kids to play multiple sports and it fosters retention. “The typical 9- or 10-year-old is on the ice from August through March, then encouraged to play in spring and summer leagues and participate in camps—because the first contact with their hockey association in the fall is tryouts. Kids play through the summer just to make a team. A healthy six-month season becomes closer to nine or 10 months and kids are getting burned out.” By starting with four to six weeks of skills and drills, kids who play other sports, “Had the fair chance to catch up,” says Doyle. This genuinely allows for USA Hockey’s position: That kids should play other sports.

McKibbon says parents in Arvada really appreciated the timing this year: “More than a handful of parents have really advocated for the later to start to finish up with soccer and football.” (Because soccer and football are especially popular in the area, he had already been working with those associations to try to prevent schedule conflicts.) Reinforcing retention, he adds, “More kids will choose to stay with the sport and we’ll get more multi-sport athletes to skate with this us in the winter. The other benefit, of course, is that some kids don’t skate in the summer and in the past they didn’t look as good as the others.”

Littleton’s TenEyck agrees that the new structure is more realistic for multi-sport athletes: “I liked giving the kids who had taken the summer off the chance to get their feet under them.” Boulder’s Huckins adds, “In the past, players were forced to sacrifice a fall sport to try to make a travel hockey team in a three-day period. This year, players could focus on their individual skills and hockey conditioning as they chose over a six-week period.”

Fair Time to Evaluate Kids

It almost goes without saying that four to six weeks of evaluation gives a clearer picture of each player than a few days or even minutes. According to Littleton’s TenEyck, the evaluation worked two ways: “The coaches had the chance to see all the kids, to really evaluate them against each other. And it gave kids a chance to be introduced to three of our five coaches.”

Although every hockey director we talked to admitted that some parents still complained about their player’s placement, the amount of evaluation time did help assure parents that players had a fair chance. “It made our lives very easy at Squirt tryouts in terms of handling complaints,” says TenEyck, “because we could talk about the amount of time involved and the number of coaches looking.”

Coach the Coaches

A longer evaluation time is not all about the players—it’s also about the coaches. “It gives the hockey director a chance to run practices, and gives coaches a chance to see how practices should be run. It’s a hockey school for the kids and for the coaches,” says Doyle.

Boulder’s Huckins mentioned this benefit as well. “Our hockey directors and skill directors had the chance to work with our 10 & Unders a couple of times a week. This would not have been the case in the past as we would have rushed them into a team environment. In my opinion, since our volunteer coaches and our players had the opportunity to work with professional coaches, we are leap years ahead of were we would be any other season.” Littleton’s TenEyck took advantage of the time to benefit coaches as well: “It was nice because we laid out the first three weeks of practice plans for the coaches.”

This time for working with coaches is key to player development as well says Doyle: “Whether a kid is an A, B, or C, they have a chance down the road if they’re given the same experiences—similar ice touches and quality coaching.”

So, How Did It Go?

Doyle says the program was very well-received in the state—in fact, so well received that “the next logical step is to take this to the PeeWee level” for all 12 & Unders. “The majority felt like it was the right thing to do,” Arvada’s McKibbon says. “For the first year, it went a lot smoother than I expected—part of that has to do with the commitment of local associations to do the same thing.” Littleton’s TenEyck adds, “It was good for Littleton Hockey, with the number of travel teams we have, to have four weeks to look at these kids really helped out. I’d like to see it again next year.”

The word on the street (or lobby or stands, as it were) varied depending on parents’ experience with hockey. Many first-year Squirt parents weren’t at all concerned about the new process since they’d never been exposed to the old process. Other parents—no doubt anxious to find out who the coaches, parents and players were that they would be spending the next five months with—thought the process was too long.

Every time I heard “I just wish they’d get it over with” and “It’s taking forever,” I’d share the reality of just six years ago when my older son was a Squirt: 10 kids out of 50 cut after the first day, their names posted on the web for all to see. I tell them how much I appreciate that next year my younger son will likely skate four to six weeks, attend the four-day tryouts during which players are “reassigned” (not “cut”!), and find out his team by seeing the last four digits of our phone number posted on the web. Because that is how to treat a 9-year-old.

Editor’s Note: Thank you to Kelly Anton with the Grow the Game Initiative for this story.

Make It to Practice on Time, Every Time!

Is getting out the door to hockey practice tougher than the scrimmage? Does your child procrastinate, only to become frustrated in a mad scramble to find equipment and clothes? Do you spend more time nagging than encouraging?



Here’s an easy, kid-friendly system called See It! Say It! Do It! Organize It! developed by Colorado vision therapists to help their young patients get organized. Not only did it keep the kids on track with their therapy, parents found that it made things like homework and getting ready for school and activities easier and stress free. Best of all, the kids do it for themselves!

The See It! Say It! Do It! Organize It! system is simple:

• See it. Guide your child through a mental movie of preparing for practice. What do you pack in your hockey bag? Where is your stick? Your skates? Do you have a snack? How long does it take to drive to the rink? How long does it take to get dressed? How does it feel when you step onto the ice?


• Say it. Help your child make a powerful declaration, such as “I am an all-star because I’m on time for practice!” Saying it—and believing it—helps makes it reality.


• Do it. It’s not a to-do list. It’s an action plan! Let your child write down all the steps from his or her mental movie. Leave space to note completion and enter encouragement and praise.


• Ta-dah! Promise your child a treat when he or she realizes the goal. Perhaps game night or a sleepover with a friend.

Download this GetToPracticeOnTime template from See It! Say It! Do It! Organize It! and get started today.

Editor’s Note: Thank you to vision therapists Beth I. Fishman-McCaffrey, Patricia Dunnigan and Dr. Lynn F. Hellerstein for this story. See It! Say It! Do It! Organize It! gets busy kids and parents on track. Visit www.LynnHellerstein.com for more templates, tips and ordering information.

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