"Please don't tell me to stay safe -- Teach me, or how will I know?"
Other safety programs give children general guidance rules, show videos or simply "talk" to the children. radKIDS is dedicated to providing our children with a hands-on, activity-based, physical skill development programempowering our children with instinctual options they need to recognize, avoid, and if necessary, respond to potential danger. When a child is approached or grabbed, the response needs to be immediate, instinctual and absolute.
Is it not time to actually teach, train and empower our children with the skills they need to be safer in this world rather thantell them what we hope they will do when they meet up with anyone trying to hurt them?
Would we train our children how to swim by telling them how in the living room, then throwing them in the water?
Obviously not, so then why don't we teach/train our children how to live safer in their world today by empowering them with real skills and a positive mindset? Teach not tell, radKIDS does just that.
A radKIDS attitude,
when empowered with some realistic and instinctive skills to escape violence or harm is:
"HOW DARE YOU TOUCH ME!"
rather than the child who is told what to do and in danger yells,
"HELP ME, HELP ME."
Which mindset do we want our children to have?
http://www.radkids.org
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