How Martial Arts Can Increase Safety Awareness In Children

This article informs the reader of how martial arts can help increase their child's safety awareness. It also puts CLMA forward as a good option for parents who are interested in doing this.

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Virginia Beach Martial Arts Safety Tips for Parents, Teachers, and Guardians.
Help Keep Their Children Safe & Don’t Be A Target!

~Senior Master Thomas, 7th Degree~

While many parents and guardians feel they are faced with new and unprecedented challenges when trying to keep their children safer in today’s fast-paced and increasingly global society, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children offers these common-sense, general safety tips to help parents and guardians put these challenges into perspective. Parents and guardians should choose opportunities or “teachable” moments to reinforce safety skills. (www.ATAKICK.com) If an incident occurs in your community, and your children ask about it, speak frankly but with reassurance. Explain to your children that you want to discuss the safety rules with the, so they will know what to do if they are ever confronted with a difficult situation. Master Thomas states: “Make sure you have “safety nets” in place, so your children know there is always someone who can help them.”

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Tips for Going to and From School More Safely

Every day millions of children take to the streets and roadways to get to and from school. They walk, ride their bicycles, take buses, and arrive in automobiles with one purpose-getting to and from school safely. Every year approximately 440,000 public school buses travel more than 4 billion miles to transport 24 million children to and from school and school-related activities. For many children, this experience is a new one, and they may not understand the safety rules. Young children do not have the same frame of reference for safety as adults do. They many not “look before they leap,” which is why it is so important for families to supervise young children and practice safety sills with their older children. The tips noted below will help prepare your children for a safer journey.