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What the centre is for in Brentwood: where it fits among family activities
An honest look at where it fits.
Educational is doing a lot of quiet work in that list. Levers, timing and patience are a curriculum nobody has to announce.
Coming in from Brentwood with more than one child, the useful thing to know is that the room does not need to be rationed - there is more than one thing to do at the same time.
What it does differently
Those are ordinary words until you watch a child work out a bucket for the first time, and then they are just a description of what happened.
Bring less than you think. Coats and bags are the part of the visit nobody enjoys managing.
Where other options win
The last one is the one parents actually buy. Children remember the day they drove an excavator far longer than they remember most afternoons.
The centre describes its aim in four parts: inspiration and creativity, safety and care, educational games and activities, and creating lasting memories.
How to decide
Educational is doing a lot of quiet work in that list. Levers, timing and patience are a curriculum nobody has to announce.
The quietest hour of the week is the first one on a weekday morning in term time. The busiest is Saturday around midday.
The short version
Those are ordinary words until you watch a child work out a bucket for the first time, and then they are just a description of what happened.
The last one is the one parents actually buy. Children remember the day they drove an excavator far longer than they remember most afternoons.
Questions parents ask
What is the centre aiming for?
Inspiration and creativity, safety and care, educational play, and days children remember.
How do I get in touch?
By phone on +1 (424) 387-6232 or +1 (615) 968-4925, or by e-mail at info@newlife-entertainment.com.
Where is New Life Entertainment?
Two centres: 433 Opry Mills Drive, Nashville TN 37214, and 8111 Concord Mills Blvd, Concord NC 28027.
Planning your visit in Brentwood
Plenty of the families in the room on a weekday morning have come from somewhere like Brentwood. Nobody is local to a mall attraction; everybody has driven.
Check the day of the week against the closing time before you leave. Sunday finishes earlier than the rest of the week and catches people out.
Photograph the machine as well as the child. In two years you will have forgotten what the room looked like.
A Brentwood school holiday runs out of ideas by about day three. This is a day-three answer rather than a day-one one.
The practical details
- XCAV ZONE — 433 Opry Mills Drive, Nashville TN 37214: four child-operated machines over a ball pit.
- ICE PARK — 8111 Concord Mills Blvd, Concord NC 28027: a real rink with bumper cars on the ice.
- Opening hours — 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM Monday to Saturday, 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM on Sunday.
- Phone — +1 (424) 387-6232 · +1 (615) 968-4925
- E-mail — info@newlife-entertainment.com
Anything time critical is worth a phone call first: hours are 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM Monday to Saturday and 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM on Sunday.