Mastery Martial Arts · Troy, MI
Practical articles for Troy parents, written by Denny Strecker after 34 years teaching children.
When your child ignores you until instruction number four, the problem is training rather than defiance. This is the 5-step method karate instructors use to get first-time listening from 30 kids at once.
You yell, they listen for 30 seconds. Then tomorrow you yell louder. This is why yelling doesn’t work on kids, what it does instead, and what 34 years of getting children to listen without it has taught me.
Short answer: no, and the long answer is better. If you are wondering is 12 too late to start martial arts, this is what happens when tweens start as white belts.
Focus, memory, and coachability converge here. This is why karate for 7 year olds (through 9) is the fastest-progressing window in all of kids’ martial arts.
A meltdown is a flooded brain, not a choice. What’s actually happening in your child’s brain during a meltdown, the most common triggers, and what to do during and after — from a Troy instructor with 34 years of experience.
Ask 100 instructors the best age to start and most will say 5 or 6. This is why karate for 5 year olds works so well, and how it makes the kindergarten transition easier for everyone.
The right back to school routine for kids starts two weeks before the first day of school.
Karate for 4 year olds works at this age. See what your child learns in the first three months.
Parents searching for karate for 3 year olds want to know whether a child that little can do this. After 34 years of teaching Tiny Tigers, my answer is yes, as long as the class is built for them.
Too shy, too small, too uncoordinated, too sensitive, too distracted. After 34 years, I can tell you the kids parents rule out are the kids who benefit from martial arts the most.
MASTERY MARTIAL ARTS — TROY
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