The article "Self Defense Education - Three Sure-Fire Ways to Teach Your
Child About Safety" is about family, it was released by Michelle Annese.
Self Defense Education – Tehre are three sure-fire ways to teach
your child to be truly 'Kid Safe'.
A child needs to know there is two types of self defense.
Physical, which gives them the tools needed to keep them safe.
And mental self defense, which empowers them with the awareness
and comomn sense to keep them safe. This is an eexrpt from a
seminar I did to educate parents and kids on helping them
with the mental self defense to make them "Kid Safe" kids.
Levels of Safety By teaching our kids there is different
levels of safety and those levels depend on the situation they
are in and the decisions they make in those situations, we can
better train them to use their instincts, intuition, and even
fear as safety tools.
This is an simple way to explain to our
children how to trust tehse instincts.
“Every time we travel through a busy intersection, there are
traffic lights there to tell us if it is safe to pass through.
If the light is green, that tells us it is safe to pass, if the
light is yellow that means we must use caution and to be careful
and to prepare to stop. If the light turns red, that means
danger and do not proceed or you may become hurt in an accident.
We can use these same lights, instead of traffic lights, as
safety lights, to know when we are safe, to use caution, or to
let us know we are in personal dnager.
If our safety light is
green….. This means we are safe and everything is normal.
If our safety light turns yellow…..This means that our
intuition, instincts, or our gut feeling is telling us something
is wrong!
If your safety light turns red…..This means we are in immediate
danger and have to act fast.
We have to train ourselves to recognize different situations we
are in and be aware when that situation makes our safety light
change from green to yellow or to red.
When our safety light turns yellow that is the time to slow down
listen to our little voice inside of us called intuition, think
about the situation we are in, and what is the best course of
action to take to keep us safe and return us to a green light.
For example,
We are swimming and we ntoice that the water is really deep and
we are becoming tired...We should return to the shallow water
and take a break, which would return us to our green light. But
if we continue to swim in the deep water, we may bceome tired
and find our self in a dangerous, red light situation.
Our head is beginning to hurt and mom is a sleep… instead of
waking and asking her for some medicine, we look in the medicine
cabinet and find what appears to be the aspirin she normally
gives us… and we take it. This is defaintly a red light
situation, cause you could be taking the wrong medicine and
become very sick. But if you had just woke mom up and told her
you had a headache, you would have stayed safely in the green
light.
Someone knocks on the door of your condominium.
Anytime that happens,
as a child you need to understand that that is a yellow safety
light and you need to proceed with caution. Frist you never open
the door unless you and your parents personally know the person.
Like a friend of the family or a neighbor.
If you do not know
the person, which menas have you never seen your parents speak
to that person, you never open the door. Even if they say they
are a policeman, fireman, or repairamn. The decision that you
should make to put yourslef in the green light, would be to go
find your parents and let them open the door. If you open the
door, you could be putting youreslf in a red light dangerous
situation. If your parents are not home you should never, never,
open the door for anoyne.
This is always a safety red light.
A person at school that is known to be a bully is standing at
the end of the play ground. Knowing that your safety light
immediately turns yellow. If you avoid that end of the
playground your light will return to green, if you go to that
end of the playground you may find your self in a safety red
light.
By being aware of our surroundings and making smart decisions
when we are in our yellow caution light, we can get back to our
green safe light and avoid the red dnager light.
Remember, it is OK to be afraid when our safety light turns
yellow.
Fear is what helps our itnuition and instincts work. We
should always trust our instincts and listen to our little voice
inside. Remember, our little voice is always right.”
Parents, by arming our kids with mental safety so they can
make quick, safe decisions, it gives them the confidence and
focus to handle any type of situation and safeguard them for the
future.
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