Kids get distracted easily. How do martial arts teachers get kids to focus? This week, I’ve asked our staff to describe some of their favorite tools for helping kids to focus. The TMAA staff has many decades’ combined teaching experience and have worked with thousands of children over the years, so these are tips that […]
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Your Child and “Screen Time”
Martial arts has a reputation for helping children with issues of behavior, concentration and academic performance. This reputation, for the most part, is well earned. Over the years, I have have personally worked to understand how martial arts helps children so that we at Traditional Martial Arts Academy can offer families the best possible support […]
Cultivate the Right Mindset for Teaching Your Child Grit Pt.4
Bringing Mindset Principles Home—How to Teach Your Child Grit In this series of articles, I have presented some of the fundamentals behind Carol Dweck’s theory of fixed vs. growth-oriented mindset and shown how we apply them as teachers at Traditional Martial Arts Academy. But how can you, as a parent, apply them in how you […]
Cultivate the Right Mindset for Teaching Your Child Grit Pt.3
How We Apply Mindset Theory at Traditional Martial Arts Academy In this series of articles, I have been exploring how Carol Dweck’s Mindset Theory explains why children (and adults) react differently to challenging learning situations and how praise shapes the mindsets that lead to these differences. In this article, I will discuss strategies we use […]
Cultivate the Right Mindset for Teaching Your Child Grit Pt.2
Entity and Incremental Theories – Seeing the World through Different Beliefs In this series of articles, I am exploring Carol Dweck’s Mindset Theory as it relates to grit, and how you can apply these concepts to nurturing grit in your child. In the previous article we saw how children (and adults) react differently to challenging […]
Cultivate the Right Mindset for Teaching Your Child Grit Pt.1
Effort over Achievement and Mindset Theory Grit /grit/: noun Courage and resolve, strength of character. A positive trait combining passion for a long-term goal and a powerful motivation to achieve the objective Grit has become the recognized as the key character trait for success both in childhood and in later life. Intelligence is helpful, but […]