When I was a kid, ballet class wasn't somewhere I went — it was where I lived. My teachers were second mothers to me. The girls I stood next to at the barre every afternoon are still some of my closest friends today.
That's what enrichment can be. Not an after-school activity. A second family.
Dave and I have two kids in Petaluma. Our son is a 5th-grade Waldorf kid who loves reptiles and the Sonoma County outdoors. When he was 5, we registered him for the local Wildlife Museum's summer camp. We watched the staff there do extraordinary work with kids while drowning in paper forms, paper checks, and booking-by-email. They gave our son his love of lizards. We wanted to give something back.
So we built Enrichment.kids — originally, just for them.
It's grown since. It's now used by ballet schools, Waldorf and Montessori programs, gymnastics studios, nature preschools, and community centers across the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. Today, our daughter is in afterschool Spanish, weekly gymnastics at Body English, and loves rehearsing for local plays and dances. We are, every week, customers of the world we're trying to serve.
Dave and I built and ran a business together before this one. We're independent on purpose. We're two parents in Petaluma trying to make it easier for the people who shape our kids' childhoods to do their work — so more kids grow up with a teacher they'll still be thinking about in thirty years.
If that's the kind of partner you're looking for, we'd love to hear from you.
