Self Defense Education – There are three sure-fire ways to teach your child to be truly 'Kid Safe'. A child needs to know there are two types of self defense. Physical, which gives them
tools needed to keep them safe. And mental self defense, which empowers them with awareness and common sense to keep them safe. This is an exerpt from a seminar I did to educate parents and children on helping them with mental self defense to make them "Kid Safe" kids.
Levels of Safety By teaching our children there are different levels of safety and those levels depend on situation they are in and 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 easy way to explain to our children how to trust these 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 light is green, that tells us it is safe to pass, if light is yellow that means we must use caution and to be careful and to prepare to stop. If 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 danger. 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 this is time to slow down listen to our little voice inside of us called intuition, think about situation we are in, and what is best course of action to take to keep us safe and return us to a green light. For example,
We are swimming and we notice that water is really deep and we are becoming tired...we should return to shallow water and take a break, which would return us to our green light. But if we continue to swim in deep water, we may become tired and find our self in a dangerous, red light situation.
