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KIDS LOVE LIFE SKILLS

WHY IT WORKS

When I was growing up learning karate, I literal-
ly learned the majority of my curriculum in Japa-
nese. All the different stances, punches etc. Now
to someone who was obsessed with Japanese
culture and anime at the time it made me love
Karate more. I was a huge karate nerd, and I
loved it. However, my mother and my fami-
ly were rarely involved in why it was so im-
portant to me growing up. There was a gap
there, my parents could not recognize the
value of martial arts and see why it should
be so important to learn. Kids Love Life
Skills filled that gap at my karate school.
Character development, is more valu-
able to a parent than becoming the
next champion, or creating a child who
doesn’t understand the value of better-
ing themselves. I’ll give you an example
of the program, “FOCUS: To pay atten-
tion” the idea is to display the life skill on
your school wall and display to all your
parents to everyone in the class. (in the
lobby or sitting area) There are also stu-
dent parent handouts that you pass be-
fore class for parents to read to see what
the child is learning. During class, the
instructors relates these life skills and
uses it as an example in relation to the
technique. Also creating that bridge to
the parents, so the parents see the value of
your curriculum and why students should
use this particular life skill on a daily basis.
Why is this important?

“ I fear not the man who knows

10,000 techniques, but I fear the

man who has the done

the technique 10,000 times…”

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