Local Fredericksburg/Spotsylvania VA Martial Arts News
3/10/2010
Provided Courtesy of Spotsylvania Martial Arts
Spotsylvania Martial Arts'
Top 10 Martial Arts Tips to Help Prevent
Childhood Obesity
Mr. Craig Willits, Chief Instructor at Spotsylvania Martial Arts in Fredericksburg VA, suggests the following 10 tips for martial arts parents to help prevent childhood obesity:
1. Martial Arts Tip #1: Allow children to be in charge of the food they eat. Children thrive on self control.
2. Martial Arts Tip #2: Make all foods equal. Teach children to check in with their bodies and choose healthy foods based on what their bodies are asking for. Encourage your child to respect their bodies.
3. Martial Arts Tip #3: Encourage children to know when they are full and to stop eating at that point. Focusing is a key life skill we teach at Spotsylvania Martial Arts.
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While many parents and guardians feel they are faced with new and unprecedented challenges when trying to keep their children safer in today’s fast-paced and increasingly global society, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children offers these common-sense, general safety tips to help parents and guardians put these challenges into perspective. Parents and guardians should choose opportunities or “teachable” moments to reinforce safety skills. If an incident occurs in your community, and your children ask about it, speak frankly but with reassurance. Explain to your children that you want to discuss the safety rules with the, so they will know what to do if they are ever confronted with a difficult situation. Make sure you have “safety nets” in place, so your children know there is always someone who can help them.
Did you know that 90 percent of all potential violent encounters could have been prevented without a confrontation? It's true: simply by being aware of your surroundings, controlling your behavior, and avoiding being in the wrong place at the wrong time, you can greatly decrease your chances of being a victim of violence.
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