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Parents:
This is an excellent article from an award winning teacher named Ron Clark. After reading the article I suggest going out to Summer’s Stories and buying one (or all) of his books. He’s got some GREAT ideas and PROVEN solutions to dealing with kids. This is the kind of stuff we want to EMBRACE in ATA Family Academy!
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This seems like an easy answer. You either have a Black Belt or you don’t. You either are in the Leadership program or you’re not. But it’s not that easy.
It’s the act of DOING that makes you a Black Belt or a Leader. If I painted a picture 5 years ago I wouldn’t call myself a painter today. If I played soccer in high school that doesn’t make me a soccer player today.
You have to be actively DOING the things you want to be. If you want to be a Black Belt you have to be TRAINING like a Black Belt. If you want to be a leader you have to be leading.
You have to DO what you want to be! If you’re not doing some kind of training each day to being a Black Belt Leader then you’re not really training at your best now are you?
Do THIS:
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I recently ran into a parent of one of my former students and she commented, “I wish he’d stuck with it.” She was talking about her son who started classes and then quite not far into his training. Let me say, if I had a dollar for every time I heard a parents say this phrase I’d be a rich man.
Let me tell you a secret. It’s up to YOU to make sure he/she keeps training. It’s your job as a parent to know what is good for your child
and make them stick with it. My mom never said, “I wish he’d stuck with elementry school.”
Do you see the absurdity of that? Would you as a parent let your child drop out of school because they just didn’t “feel” like doing it anymore? NO WAY!
Now, martial arts training isn’t as important as your traditional education but I can promise you it’s value is far greater then most sports and after school activites out there. If you decide to let your child choose whether they want to continue or not your showing them that you don’t care about the values and life skills we’re trying to teach. It’s important for kids to have a voice in a decision but they shouldn’t be the decision makers.
By showing your child that you value the skills they’re learning in martial arts you’re showing them how to stick with something through the ups and downs. That’s a FAR more important lesson then the instant gratification of switching activities every time your child has a struggle and wants to quite or “losses interest.”
Here at Hayden’s ATA we’re not about being just another “activity” for kids and families. We’re about building leaders for the future. Show you’re family that you value hard work and dedication and erase the phrase “I wish he’d stuck with it” from your thoughts!
So I decided to write this because I have had some people look at me like I was crazy when ever I mentionthat I had
Kolton start Tae Kwon Do at such a young age or if I suggest they try it out for their children.There are so many crazy things that I hear from people who clearly have never looked into what exactly TKD is.
It is so much more than I could have ever asked for! I could go on and on about all the positives about children being in TKD at any age, but the only way for anyone to truly understand is to witness the changes themselves! I highly recommend to all parents to at least give it a try, It is a great experience for parents and children. I think of everyone at Kolton’s TKD school as a second family and I hope they realize how much they mean to us! And for those of you who have children around Kolton’s age and are interested in TKD please come check out one of the classes at Haydens ATA in Kendallville, Tiny Tigers class (ages 4-6, I believe) is on Mondays and Thursdays @ 4pm and Wednesdays @ 6pm! Kolton gets rewarded for having a friend come to class and we would love to have you come, it wouldnt cost you anything! 
This is an excerpt from a fellow martial artist and an excellent blogger. Click the link below to read the full article. It’s worth the time!
By Kevin Geary
Before people undertake new things, especially big things, they prepare. When I first wanted to be a photographer I went to the bookstore and ravaged the shelves reading every book I could find that looked helpful. I joined internet photography groups so I could talk to people who were doing what I wanted to be doing. And I watched behind the scenes videos on YouTube. In 2008, three years after I started, I did a commissioned shoot for Hewlett Packard.
When I started web design back when I was 14 I did the same. And back then web design was coming into its own; the resources were few and far between, save for the few 400 page books on HTML written by programmers who were the antithesis of laymen…
