Self-Defense: At what age should children be taught?
By pillusch
@pillusch (1147)
Mexico
April 17, 2009 4:06pm CST
My kids, two boys, are 13 and 14, they are some pretty tough rascals, and I like it just fine. One of them wants to learn kick-boxing, which is cool with me. But he kind of lowered his expectations after his mother almost had a heart attack when hearing about it. Now it’s just boxing. His mother doesn’t like THAT either, but that’s too tough, he’s gonna do it. I believe we live in a tough world, and living down here in Mexico only aggravates things. I want them to be able to defend themselves. I’m very close to them, and we talk a lot (and I mean A LOT), so there is little danger that they’d use those skills to attack somebody. But I want to be able to let them loose on the world some day, without getting kicked around (literally and figuratively.)
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@devilsangel (1817)
• United States
17 Apr 09
My son is 6 and he's asked to study Kung Fu, so now we're looking into pricing schools. I think the sooner they learn the better off they will be. I'm already teaching him and our daughter boxing. It's not to teach them to be tough, but to help them learn balance, discipline, self respect and focus.
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@AngryKittyMSV (4317)
• United States
17 Apr 09
They should be taught to defend themselves as soon as they are old enough to learn. My daughter is 4 and as soon as I have the money, she's going to learn martial arts. Children are preyed upon at increasingly earlier ages, why not at least try to give them the tools to help them avoid becoming victims? We can't be there to protect them all the time, so they should learn at least the basics about how to protect themselves as soon as possible.
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