How will Karate help build my child’s Self Confidence
Children learn skills, such as following directions, paying attention in class, and participate in class activities that help them to become better students. Every child can be a winner instead of a bench sitter because karate allows children to reach for their own potential rather than directly competing against other kids, by challenges the entire body, developing coordination, balance, agility, and poise qualities that are often neglected in many team sports. Self confidence doesn’t come naturally to many children, but rather is developed over a period of time, as a child accomplishes new goals, their confidence level increases.
Karate is not only for fun; it also provides many important benefits. Helping to build concentration, focus, clear thinking and decisiveness. There are also strong internal benefits as well. Karate helps install patience, perseverance, understanding and open-mindedness. It develops self-control, courtesy and increases calmness, both of which will aid children with every endeavour they undertake in life. Karate is good for the body, too. Physically it is excellent for the heart, building strong bones and bigger muscles, in order to create resilience, making the body less susceptible to sickness and injury.
Karate is profoundly helpful to young children in dealing with the many challenges facing them in today’s society. Our instructors understand the importance of your child’s development, and how praise and reward nourishes them as much as the karate training itself. To safeguard against a student’s hopes or expectations being squashed, our instructors will carefully monitor the progress of each child during their lessons.
During this time, the instructor can easily identify any potential shortfall, and work with the child to ensure they’ll be ready for their next assessment. The requirements for each grading are very realistic and can easily be achieved by any child, provided they keep up their practice and attendance.
“To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day.” Lao Tsu 604Bc – 531Bc