Cliques In School are Tough on Kids

School, Peer Pressure and Cliques How parents can help As kids navigate friendships and cliques, there’s plenty parents can do to offer support. If your child seems upset, or suddenly spends time alone when usually very social, ask about it. Here are some tips: Talk about your own experiences. Share your own experiences of school —…

Instilling Perseverance in Children

In todays world this is extremely lacking, perseverance is becoming a lost trait.  I firmly believe that martial arts training will help curtail this epidemic but there are other ways to instill this very important trait in our children.   Being an example is one way, not letting your kids quit just because they want…

How To Not Raise A Quitter

Attached below is a great article about children and quitting.  In my experience many times the child doesn’t want to quit the activity, the activity is just getting in the way of what they are doing at the moment.  What I mean by this is the child may have other ideas about what they want…