Surprising Way to Help Your Future Wimp

It's Just Your Inner Wimp

Is a Wimp in Your Future?

Moms, do your husbands complain that you're turning their children into wimps. Does he fear that his son or daughter just doesn't have what it takes to make it in the real world? Wimp is a word that can make a grown man scrunch up his nose as though he just got a belly full of buck shot.  Here is a quote by economist, Thomas Sowell:

"If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians,the barbarians are going to win."

In most cultures, might makes right. The weak are harassed and exploited. Therefore, you can understand why parents hope their children will be among the strong. No one wants their son or daughter bullied by playground barbarians.

Searching for Confidence

When children are not mentally and physically strong, parents search for ways to help their children cope. Throughout the United States, concerned dads take their somewhat unwilling children to boxing, wrestling, and martial arts programs to find a cure that promises to toughen their children. The hope is that their kids will stand up for themselves and thwart the many bullies they are bound to encounter. Concerned mothers search for a program, therapy being cost prohibited, that can offer the same benefits and nuture her sensitive children in developing positive coping mechanisms and offer guidance in personal growth.

Surprisingly, the martial art program that specializes in life skills training might fit their needs nicely. The martial art culture encourages students to cultivate self-discipline, honor, respect, precision, health, and through the practice of martial arts, personal growth and development that enhances the body and mind connection. Instructors have witnessed transformations after children start training in the martial arts helping them experience true self-esteem and confidence. Many in the martial arts industry recognize the benefits of introducing life skills training to create a well rounded program that help accelerate their student's personal development and growth. Instructors become martial art life coaches.

Maybe Your Child is Just a Kind Person

There are lots of children that are just really nice and kind people. They might be pacifists, deep thinkers, artistic, or dislike conflict. They don't get as much attention as children that are into sports, act up, or are more assertive. If children are shy, introverted, meek, gifted, scared, or overly-sensitive, they avoid interactions with others and seek pursuits that are more introspective. Perhaps interactions in the past were not fruitful, or painful, embarrassing, or sometimes even hostile. Maybe your child has read the book, Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney. Read over 20 millions times, the popularity of this book is a clear indication that millions of children and even some adults around the world perceive themselves as wimpy kids. A quote from musician, Eric Wilson:

"Even a lot of kids who are gifted can be kids who feel like wimps or nerds." 

Therefore, instead of becoming a lifetime buffer between the real world and your child, which in the long term does nothing to help your child's personal growth, just hinder it making the wimp label applicable, find a program that offers life skills and coping tools that help your child navigate the challenges and obstacles found in the "real" world. Children need to establish confidence in themselves, in their parents, and in their abillity to handle interactions with other people.

Martial Arts Life Coach

A major goal of a good program is confidence building. Martial life skills is a program that provides the right environment and nuturing atmosphere that helps children build confidence, giving them the tools and emotional support to face challenges and obstacles that test children every day.

Confidence is the key in helping children navigate, handle, and cope with the stress of engaging and participating in the "real" world. Martial life skills coaches individualize the program for each child taking into account a child's personality, physicality, emotional fortitude, and emotional needs. Children build courage, practice courage, and gain confidence establishing true self-esteem. Here is a quote by writer, Beth Moore.

"Have the courage to live under strain and pain to be part of a better story. A larger story. Don't wimp out."  

What martial arts and life skill coaching offer is a socially controlled environment for your children to interact with other children, a nurturing environment so they can learn to trust themselves and their coaches, and an individualized approach that challenges their abilities, guiding them to confidence and self-esteem.

Parents can keep their fingers crossed and hope their children have a trouble free experience reporting good news at the end of the day. But some parents know that before the day is done, their child may well hear the word wimp. And it breaks their hearts. However, with the right martial arts life skills program in place, a child won't care what others think of him, only what he thinks of himself. He will gain confidence and the the courage to face every day challenges and looks forward to bettering his own story. Best of all, He won't wimp out.

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