Our great parenting magazine, Valley Parent, is a monthly digest for parents and grandparents of children from the ages of birth to the “tweener” years. In our most recent issue, a mistake happened (not our fault) that kept a very important advertising message from inclusion in the issue.

As a magazine publisher, it validates our existence when we know that including a client’s advertising makes a difference to them. And, in this case, it makes a big difference. The Growing Room Child Development Center and Christian Academy intended to use our July Valley Parent issue to launch their 2010-2011 school year theme, entitled “Our Schools Rock.”

The good people at Growing Room have realized like many others that children learn better and are happier with their learning when they’re surrounded by the arts — dance, visual arts, music and theater.

The “Our Schools Rock” theme will surround your children with the best of the arts as they develop relationships with their teachers and learn self-help skills and language skills. Parents will even be able to get into the game with “Rocking at Home” homework.

Every classroom from toddlers through K-4 will present a Growing Room Rocking Musical during the last two weeks of April 2011. Growing Room believes that their advertising message is even more important now that new people are moving to our area relating to the Maneuver Center of Excellence boom that is coming to our region as a result of Base Realignment and Closure legislation. The company offers military discounts at all their locations. Growing Room launched its business in 1989 and in 2004, the company was named the United States Small Business Administration’s Small Business of the Year.

Even though this error occurred outside our control at Valley Parent, we have joined hands with Growing Room and their excellent local advertising agency, Image By Design, to make something good happen from this. That something good is for our readership to get the full advantage of Growing Room’s advertising message in our vibrant marketplace. Click here to see the ad that was to have been placed in our July issue.

We think their commitment to Valley Parent is pretty special and we think that we can also be a perfect marketing partner for your business.

Contact our advertising account executives Aleta Brant at aleta@columbusandthevalley.com or Beth Martin at beth@columbusandthevalley.com to initiate your own partnership with Valley Parent.