Welcome to the blog!

 

Romp n' Roll was created by Michael and Babz Barnett, a couple who were looking around for "Mommy and Me classes" in Richmond for their kids. Then an idea hit them - what if they could create a gym for preschoolers that combined gym, art, and music - all under one roof? And then voila! Romp n' Roll was born!

It was 2004.

Years later, I started this blog.

It's no Gymboree or Kidville, but I grew up at Romp n' Roll and loved it. I even owned a few CDs and a mini Rompy plush. I started out going with my parents, but then It was the first place they dropped me and my sisters off at (for the Rompy Summer Camp). I remember all of it - singing songs like "Where is Rompy?" and playing with gym equipment and musical instruments. But I never went back after that, as I was getting "too old" for Romp n' Roll, and moved on to preschool, physical therapy, and speech therapy.

Romp n' Roll started in Virginia, but Babz and Michael wanted to expand the franchise, so they had to go on the ABC program "Shark Tank" to do so. And now, RnR has locations in Raleigh, Pittsburgh, Katy, and Singapore.

Now, hopefully, Romp n' Roll's history can live on with this blog. Do you have memories of Romp n' Roll? Share it with me right ere!

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Romp n' Roll is on a Roll!

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  I grew up going to Romp n' Roll, and looking back at it years later, I became a fan of the preschool gym and music center, and started to research it a little more. Here’s an interesting news article about RnR  I found on Richmond.com . Henrico County-based children’s gym company Romp n’ Roll is on a roll. Working with partners in China, the company has opened 85 new franchise locations in the Asian nation since 2010. It also has eight locations in the U.S., including three corporate-owned gyms and play centers in the Richmond area. Two new franchise locations are scheduled to open in Raleigh, N.C., and Orlando, Fla., by the end of the year. “We started in the U.S. and got off to a really good start with a bunch of locations in the first year or two,” said Michael Barnett, Romp n’ Roll CEO, who co-founded the company in 2004 with his wife, Babz Barnett. “Then China happened,” Michael Barnett said. “We realized very quickly what was going to happen there,” he said, speaking f...
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