| This section covers two extremely valuable life skills | | | | many advanced Karate students learn to meditate. |
| that many adults pay a "king's ransom" to attain. | | | | Meditation offers the ability to clear your mind and |
| Adults pay a life coach, business coach, or read | | | | concentrate on one single concept, object, or idea. |
| plenty of self-improvement books, to gain this | | | | At the very least, kids Karate students will learn to |
| knowledge and develop these life skills. However, | | | | be quiet and know how to quiet their minds. This is a |
| within a Karate class, children can be molded toward | | | | relief for parents who desperately need some quiet |
| a lifetime of achievement. | | | | time in the evening. |
| Success | | | | Material success arrives when all of the other forms |
| There are many types of success such as: The | | | | of success work in harmony. A child who has the |
| power of influence, mental, physical, spiritual, and | | | | tools for success, learned within the Karate |
| material success. A child can get a strong grasp of | | | | classroom, will be able to apply them toward school, |
| most of these types of successes, within the | | | | college, and business. For most of us, success, in life, |
| structure of his or her Karate class. Each form of | | | | will not be attained without working at it. |
| success is valuable in today's world. | | | | Leadership |
| The power of influence is learned through social skills, | | | | As a child attains a higher rank within his or her |
| and children have to work together in order to learn | | | | Karate class, the ability to lead a small group of |
| Karate. Children work in pairs, or groups, to | | | | Karate students is learned. To enhance this quality, |
| accomplish a single goal. Sometimes, the highest | | | | we developed a "leadership team." These children, on |
| ranking child will lead a group, while the Karate | | | | the leadership team, have displayed leadership and |
| teacher (sensei) observes or corrects at certain | | | | compassion toward their fellow Karate students. |
| points. | | | | However, every child within our North Providence |
| However, the influential Karate student can be | | | | kids Karate program is taught the value of leadership |
| observed voluntarily helping others. This is one of | | | | as it applies to life. There is a time to lead and a time |
| many positive qualities that children learn, which are | | | | to follow, but children have to learn to think for |
| valuable in their Karate training, and it applies to | | | | themselves for their own safety and success. The |
| having influence in life. | | | | power of peer pressure is a heavy burden on the |
| Mental success can be academic or something as | | | | minds of children. |
| simple as learning a new martial arts technique. The | | | | Proper conduct is not always popular with children, |
| child who learns to apply his or her success, gained in | | | | but the child with strong leadership skills will not follow |
| a martial arts class, toward life outside Karate | | | | the negative path of influence. Children have serious |
| training, has learned one of the biggest lessons a | | | | daily concerns about peer pressure, drugs, and bullies. |
| Karate teacher can give. | | | | Karate training, and the leadership skills that result |
| Spiritual success is really left up to the parents, but | | | | from it, will carry your child in the right direction. |