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What is the Mighty Kids Program?
The Mighty Kids Program offers a practical, progressive curriculum that challenges students while rewarding their accomplishments in manageable increments. The Mighty Kids Curriculum makes it possible for children to earn a promotion approximately every three to four months. For each promotion the student receives a white belt with a horizontal color stripe.
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What Is The Purpose Of The Mighty Kids Program?
On the one hand, the Mighty Kids program is aimed at preparing young students to advance to a traditional martial art curriculum. On the other hand, the purpose of our children's martial art program is intended to have a much broader and essential scope for its participants.
Our primary purpose is to impact the lives of our young students by teaching them important life-skills through the practice of our Mighty Kids Curriculum, positive messages, and rewarding classroom experiences.
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We Teach Tools For The Real World!
How to learn
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Paying attention and following rules
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Focusing on the task at hand
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Listening attentively to simple as well as complex instructions
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Working individually as well as in a group setting
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Developing confidence in the ability to perform well
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Developing a positive self-image
How to behave in a positive way
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Following classroom rules, customs and courtesies
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Interacting with other children under normal and pressure situations
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Respecting and trusting authority figures
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Dealing with challenges and difficulties in a healthy way
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Accepting responsibility for actions
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Accepting setbacks and consequences for making negative decisions/actions
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Cooperating with authority and the other peers
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Demonstrating self-control in words and actions
How to set goals
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Becoming responsible for doing the right things in order to get the right results
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Putting forth maximum effort to achieve the greatest results
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Realizing that growth takes place one step at a time
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Not giving up when experiencing difficulty or setbacks
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Developing a habit of setting goals and dreams, and expressing them publicly
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Developing a beautiful life vision
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What Can Parents Expect of the Mighty Kids System?
Parents, the Mighty Kids Program might just be the partner you need to help you raise and maintain responsible, well behaved and physically fit children. In the most crucial stage of your child's development, our Mighty Kids Instructors and their influence can assist in steering your child in the right direction.
Experts agree that the key to creating healthy teens and adults is to equip them with the right habits when they are still young. The results of not doing this at an early age can only lead to having to deal with the negative consequences of their bad behavior and/or wrong decision making when they become older.
By careful planning, children in our Mighty Kids Program will be exposed to a classroom atmosphere charged with a healthy energy level, in which the students are taught under a "firm and friendly" instructional style!
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How We Measure Success in the Mighty Kids Program
We have outlined observable characteristics of how we measure success to help parents understand what our staffs' values are and what we hope to see in each student.
First, our instruction places a priority on EFFORT! For example, we tell every student that even though they may not be able to perform a certain skill, that they can most definitely "TRY THEIR BEST"!
A great amount of our time is placed on teaching the value of RESPECT! We believe that all our students are deserving of our respect, simply by the fact that each on of them is a unique individual created by God. On the other hand, we also maintain that the best way for a person to gain the respect from others is to behave in such a way that promotes that desired expectation.
Knowing the critical role that TRUST plays in any positive relationship, our staff achieves this objective by teaching in a caring and sensitive manner. In this regard, we avoid any harsh teaching methods and instead make MOTIVATION our teaching tool of preference.
Our staff ensures that in each class students are learning, getting exercise, having fun, and being challenged. The progressive, step-by-step, teaching approach in the Mighty Kids program allows students to experience daily challenges and daily successes. Encouraging our students to confront and overcome their challenges is what will build CONFIDENCE in them.
Frequent testimonies from our parents confirm that there is a direct correlation between success achieved in our Mighty Kids classroom and success achieved in the school classroom. This is not surprising due to the fact that in classes students are learning to focus, to listen, to follow directions, and to try their best. These qualities added together create a formula for success in anything our students set out to do.
We are committed to encouraging our students to feel that they are capable of achieving great things in life. One key form of encouragement that we incorporate is to communicate to our students their unique talents and strengths. Our teaching experience has proven to us that positive remarks are the seeds that produce a HEALTHY SELF-CONCEPT in our students, which in turn cultivates a "MIGHTY KID" SELF-IMAGE.
In conclusion, our staff is confident that through the Mighty Kids training program students can acquire all of the positive characteristics mentioned above plus much more! Without a doubt, our highly-motivated professional staff will teach students how to develop into outstanding martial artists. However, our definition of a successful student will always involve the more obvious benefits: fit, responsible and happy individuals!
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