This week is your last chance to sign up for our Spring Break Camp.
The camp is for children ages 6 & up. This year’s camp is going to focus heavily on kidnapping and bully prevention.
If you are interested, message us, email us, give us a call or stop by.
If your child is in our After School Program we already have a spot saved. Please let us know if they will not be attending so that we may open the space up for other students.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
This week is your last chance to sign up for our Spring Break Camp.
The camp is for children ages 6 & up. This year’s camp is going to focus heavily on kidnapping and bully prevention.
If you are interested, message us, email us, give us a call or stop by.
If your child is in our After School Program we already have a spot saved. Please let us know if they will not be attending so that we may open the space up for other students.
The camp is for children ages 6 & up. This year’s camp is going to focus heavily on kidnapping and bully prevention.
If you are interested, message us, email us, give us a call or stop by.
If your child is in our After School Program we already have a spot saved. Please let us know if they will not be attending so that we may open the space up for other students.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Does your child run your life?
This blog post could be an eye opener for some parents. In the martial arts we teach the life skills that are not taught in school. The question is, are these skills taught at home? I remember coming from a strict background. There were things I knew I could never do such as, talk while my parents were talking, whine, talk back, or call my parents names (which is something I hear occasionally around the school).
Sometimes when I am in the martial arts school, I am amazed with some parents’ inability to teach their children self control and basic manners. The saddest part of this inability is that it could potentially damage their children for the rest of their lives.
The real world is not easy. When you enter the workforce you find out fairly quickly that your parents will not be in the board room with you, making sales with you and they definitely will not be there to stop your boss from firing you for a lack of production. In other words, parents should keep this in mind when they find themselves babying their children and allowing them to control them. The more this is allowed, the more difficult it will be for the children later in life.
I think my parents did an amazing job in my early childhood. I learned the difference between right and wrong at an early age. I only interrupted my mom and dad a few times before I knew not to do it again. When my parents were on the phone, I never would be loud or ignorant to the situation. I always knew that my house was provided by my hard-working parents. Do your children know that? Or are you catering to their every need? Waiting on your children hand and foot and making them do nothing except come down for their meals you prepared without having to clean up is not helping them at all. It is hurting them!
Throughout my years of being a martial arts instructor and teaching hundreds of kids, it has been hard seeing the kids that needed martial arts the most quit because their parents did not want to “force” them to do anything. “Forcing” a child to learn self discipline, self control, and the other principles that martial arts teaches is one of those things in life that the child will be better for in the long-run. This seems obvious to me, but is something that some parents do not set as a priority.
If your child has ADD or ADHD there should be no other activity that your child does except martial arts. It is by far the one activity that can change your child and give him/her the skills that he/she would not get from other sports and or activities.
If this post sounds like you, do not take offense to it, simply think about your child’s future.
Sometimes when I am in the martial arts school, I am amazed with some parents’ inability to teach their children self control and basic manners. The saddest part of this inability is that it could potentially damage their children for the rest of their lives.
The real world is not easy. When you enter the workforce you find out fairly quickly that your parents will not be in the board room with you, making sales with you and they definitely will not be there to stop your boss from firing you for a lack of production. In other words, parents should keep this in mind when they find themselves babying their children and allowing them to control them. The more this is allowed, the more difficult it will be for the children later in life.
I think my parents did an amazing job in my early childhood. I learned the difference between right and wrong at an early age. I only interrupted my mom and dad a few times before I knew not to do it again. When my parents were on the phone, I never would be loud or ignorant to the situation. I always knew that my house was provided by my hard-working parents. Do your children know that? Or are you catering to their every need? Waiting on your children hand and foot and making them do nothing except come down for their meals you prepared without having to clean up is not helping them at all. It is hurting them!
Throughout my years of being a martial arts instructor and teaching hundreds of kids, it has been hard seeing the kids that needed martial arts the most quit because their parents did not want to “force” them to do anything. “Forcing” a child to learn self discipline, self control, and the other principles that martial arts teaches is one of those things in life that the child will be better for in the long-run. This seems obvious to me, but is something that some parents do not set as a priority.
If your child has ADD or ADHD there should be no other activity that your child does except martial arts. It is by far the one activity that can change your child and give him/her the skills that he/she would not get from other sports and or activities.
If this post sounds like you, do not take offense to it, simply think about your child’s future.
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