Children's Self Defense

This is part one of a multi-part blog on Children's Self Defense with comprehensive techniques that can potentially help save a child’s life. Techniques should be taught to all children as soon as they can comprehend the lessons. While we don’t want to raise paranoid kids, they need to be aware of the stranger dangers that lurk in today's society.

Keep your child's ID card and file current. (You can search for kits on line: Child ID Program.) Include medical information, physical description and recent picture. Dental records, fingerprints and DNA samples should be kept in a home file. Also have a wallet size ID including picture to carry with whoever is accompanying the child. Have each updated annually.
Teach them their entire name, phone number, address, your name(s). Teach them how to use a phone and about dialing 911.
Strangers. Remember strangers are not just people you’ve never seen. Tell them to stay at least an arm’s length from other adults, don’t talk to them, don’t take anything from them and never go anywhere with them!
Teach them their body is private and no one should touch them in a way that makes them uncomfortable. No one should touch them anywhere their swimsuit would cover. They should not hug or kiss friends or family members if they do not wish too-that sends the wrong message.
Emphasize openness, and no secrets from you, their parents, for any reason. If someone were to ask them to keep a secret they need to tell you right away.

Repeated Pattern

If a mother is in an abusive relationship, her children already have a strike against them. This is a learned behavior from the environment they live in, and most likely they will continue the cycle. Sons will have no respect for their mothers and will consider women objects to possess and abuse. Daughters will most likely end up with men who will recognize their lack of self esteem and abuse them.

Just as I coach, a women's self image and self esteem directly impact how she is perceived. How she's preceived impacts how she is treated.

It's CHOICE, not chance, that determines your future!

You ARE Worth Protecting!

Effective self-defense begins with an understanding that you are entitled to be safe and respected. This happens when you have a healthy self image. Everyone's self image is a reflection of their interactions with others and their life experiences.

With that said, how effectively a woman protects herself directly depends on her own sense of self worth. KUTA Empowered Women takes the time to help women understand this principle before embarking upon awareness tips and defensive techniques.

Women need to have confidence, knowledge and skills to protect themselves.

Escaping Harm!

Self defense is about the simple moves you can/will use effectively. In a stresful, threatening situation where words and adrenaline are flying, you have to know it will work on a man larger than you. You don't have to be in great shape to defend yourself, but you do have to have a smart approach. Self-defense is about escaping harm!

Krav Maga

Real life self defense.

The guiding principles are:

Do not get hurt
Utilize natural reflexes of the body
Exploit all vulnerable points of the body
Use any available objects as weapons
Quickly neutralize the attack
Rapidly transition from defensive to offensive

YOU ARE BEING INTERVIEWED

The predator uses a series of questions to engage you and see how vulnerable you are. Most likely he has done it before and is a good judge of character. Some might literally be practice interviews when he's honing his craft. Others, are just jerks trying to engage you as an attractive woman.
If someone pays you a compliment completely out of the blue, be aware. If he asks a series of questions and continues to press -- BE ON GUARD! The questions don't even have to make sense or be related. If he wo'nt take "no" for an answer to anything -- step back and keep your distance, YOU ARE BEING INTERVIEWED.

This is one interview you want to fail!
Do not feel like you have to thank him for the compliment, you don't owe him anything!
Don't answer his questions! Redirect him with your statements. "Leave me alone!" "I don't know you!" "I do not have any business with you!"

Keep Up The Awareness! : )

More on this topic next time!