Gun Accident Prevention - For Parents & Children

Gun Accident Prevention - For Parents and Children

DOES YOUR CHILD KNOW WHAT TO DO IF HE OR SHE FINDS A GUN?

The Eddie Eagle GunSafe® program is a gun accident prevention program that seeks to help parents, law enforcement, community groups and educators navigate a topic paramount to our children’s safety. Eddie and his Wing Team are on a mission to help you teach Pre-K through 4th graders what to do if they ever come across a gun.

TALKING TO YOUR CHILD ABOUT GUN SAFETY

Parents play a key role in developing safe practices and are ultimately responsible for the behavior and safety of their children. Isolated lessons and concepts can quickly be forgotten but with repetition, children remember standard safety procedures. The goal of the Eddie Eagle GunSafe® program is to help you bring up an important safety issue with your child. It's not a complicated or confusing message, and it's easy and fun to teach. If children see a gun, they need to remember:

STOP!

This first step is crucial. Stopping first allows your child the time he or she needs to remember the rest of the safety instructions.

Don’t Touch

A firearm that is not touched or disturbed is unlikely to fire and otherwise endanger your child or other people.

Run Away

This removes the temptation to touch the firearm as well as the danger that another person may negligently cause it to fire.

Tell A Grown-up

Children should seek a trustworthy adult, neighbor, relative or teacher – if a parent or guardian is not available.

Watch the Eddie Eagle Video

Eddie and the Wing Team deliver this important message in this 8-minute long video, newly released in spring 2015. In the video, the Wing Team encounters a gun in a place they didn’t expect. Eddie helps his friends remember how to stay safe by singing his favorite song…

The Eddie Eagle GunSafe Program, it doesn’t teach parents about guns.  But it does teach parents about gun safety and how to relay that information correctly in a method that’s really memorable to kids.  It’s the gun equivalent of stop, drop and roll.

We encourage you as a responsible parent and citizen to reinforce these ideas by repeating this message and discussing it with your child. According to federal statistics, there are guns in approximately 40% of all U.S. households. Even if you do not have a firearm in your home, chances are that someone you know does. Your child could come in contact with a gun at a neighbor's house, when playing with friends, or under other circumstances outside of your control. We encourage you as a responsible parent and citizen today to...

• Make sure all firearms cannot be reached by anyone who should not have access to them without your consent. Store guns so they are not accessible to unauthorized persons, especially children. 

• Keep ammunition securely stored where a child or any other unauthorized person cannot reach it. 

• Talk to your child about guns, and gun safety. By removing the mystery surrounding guns, your child will be far less curious about guns, and more likely to follow safety rules. 

• Make sure your child understands the difference between a toy gun and a real gun, and the difference between "pretend" and real life. 

Advice for Non-Gun Owners

Even though you don’t own a gun, you may know someone who might. And it’s imperative that you prepare your children so they know what to do if they ever find a gun.

In a home where guns are kept, the degree of safety a child has rests squarely on the parents and gun owner. Parents who accept the responsibility to learn, practice and teach gun safety rules will ensure their child's safety to a much greater extent than those who do not. Parental responsibility does not end, however, when the child leaves the home. That is why it is critical for your child to know what to do if he or she encounters a firearm. The Eddie Eagle GunSafe® program has no agenda other than accident prevention --ensuring that children stay safe should they encounter a gun. 

Have more questions about how to talk to your children about gun safety? 

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Eddie Eagle GunSafe Program

The number one gun accident prevention program for children, Eddie Eagle GunSafe, has taught over 28 million children how to stay safe if the ever find a gun.

To learn more about how Self-Defense & Accident Prevention for children contact:

Chief Instructor: Owner Sensei Dan Rominski at (201) 933-3050 or email  SenseiDan@TheDOJO.org

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Children Learn Concentration and Focus - Rutherford Martial Arts and Karate Program Teach How

Children Learn Concentration and Focus - Rutherford Martial Arts and Karate Program Teach How

Before expecting children to focus at school/tutoring, home and activities, why not teach them HOW to concentrate their mind?  Children learn HOW to learn at TheDOJO where Chief Instructor Sensei Dan Rominski effectively teaches The Three Rules of Concentration. 

The Three Rules of Concentration

The Three Rules of Concentration are a fun & simple way to teach children starting at about age 3 years old how to concentrate their minds & how to focus on the task at hand.  It is one of the very first lessons we teach at TheDOJO. 

1. Focus Your Eyes
2. Focus Your Mind
3. Focus Your Body 

At their very first class with us we will teach children to memorize & recite back 1. Focus your eyes (as they point to their eyes) 2. Focus your mind (as they bring their hands from their mind together into a triangle) and 3. Focus your Body (as they snap to a standing attention position, standing still, with feet together & hands pressed to their sides, and eyes focused forward on the teacher).  Performing The Three Rules of Concentration in this way engages the three types of learning styles which are Visual Learners who see it being demonstrated, Auditory Learners who hear the instructions being recited and Kinesthetic Learners who learn by doing it.

Parents here are some tools to review with your children:

Focus Your Eyes

Focus your eyes means to look at the parent, teacher, babysitter, grandparent or whoever is speaking to you with proper contact.  That means to look into their eyes and keep looking at their eyes while they are speaking.  Focus your eyes also means to look at what your doing such as homework, chores or a lesson to see HOW something is done.  During a martial arts class focus your eyes on the teacher to not miss a demonstration on how a technique is performed, body language is one of the biggest forms of communication.  This is also a great social cue that says to people, “I am paying attention to you”  Children who are Auditory or Kinesthetic Learners may not do this as naturally as a Visual Learner will.  So parents & teacher should understand this & patiently teach the child how to make this a routine so socially people know one is paying attention.

Focus Your Mind

Focus your mind means to think about the task at hand whether it be a subject or a set of directions.  Your mind can think about a lot of things such as school, karate, playing, homework, chores etc.  Focus can mean “to bring to one point” and to concentrate your mind to only think about the task at hand or what you are doing “right now” in the present moment.  Breathing helps with this, take a deep breathe or two before doing something.  Controlling our breathing allows us to settle our busy minds and narrow our focus to the task at hand.

Focus Your Body

When your body is  “in a state” of attention your mind becomes more attentive as well.  Their is a physiology or a body language to different emotions.  Angry people cross their arms & stomp their feet, a champion after winning throws their hands in the air above their heads, a black belt sits up straight or stands still when their teacher or “sensei” is instructing them.  Whenever you are learning practice this.  When sitting, sit up straight, when standing stand still & always directly face someone with your body and face when they are speaking to you.  Stand as if your body language is saying you are important & I am paying attention to you.  Assume the body language of an expert student & you will be just that.

By anchoring in these terms through fun practice in a martial arts class at TheDOJO & parents reinforcing this message at home by using the exact same cue words children will get it.  Remind children when they forget to use them or when they get distracted & are not paying attention.  Simply say first before addressing them or to re-engage them, “focus your eyes” “focus your mind” or “focus your body”.  

Lastly, once children know how to focus ask them “how do you focus your eyes” to cue them.  Adding the would “how” is powerful.  People don’t always listen to others but they tend to always listen to themselves.  By asking them “how do you focus your eyes when I speak to you”, or “how do focus your mind” or “how do you focus your body and sit/stand still while I am speaking to you” if cued properly they will tell themselves to do it.  This is even better as now they will be in developing the routine of self-discipline so when no one is around to remind them they will develop the ability to remind themselves.  

To learn more about how to specifically inspire your child to focus, concentrate & pay attention Contact Chief Instructor: Owner Sensei Dan Rominski at (201) 933-3050 or email SenseiDan@TheDOJO.org

Visit our website http://www.TheDOJO.org For a FREE Introductory Offer or 
Get a FREE report, “How Making Good Decisions, Before You Act, is Self-Defense.”

Get more information about our Martial Arts Education of Intelligent Curriculum involving Everything Self-Defense at TheDOJO located in 52 Park Avenue, Rutherford NJ. Click HERE for the Googlemap Link.

Children learn to protect themselves from Abduction

Children learn to protect themselves from Abduction.  

A child may protect themselves from abduction by learning how to latch onto objects - be it a bicycle, park bench, street sign post, fence, or chair.  Latching themselves to an object deters abduction since the child now becomes a more “difficult target/victim” for a child abductor.  Upon being deterred the abductor may “give up” & move onto a more easier target.  Parents, practice this lesson with children while also having them practice shouting, “This is not my mom - this is not my dad, stranger help!”  Parents please take note in the video the particular way to teach children how to strongly & effectively clasp their hands the right way.  This is one simple lesson, a part of our unique & complete system for teaching children “Child Abduction Prevention.”  If you ever have any questions please contact me, anytime.  

Read our blog  to learn more about Child Abduction Prevention on our BLOG POST CLICK HERE or click this link http://senseidanromisnki.blogspot.com/search?q=dan+rominski+ez+defense

Contact Chief Instructor: Owner Sensei Dan Rominski at (201) 933-3050 or email SenseiDan@TheDOJO.org

Visit our website http://www.TheDOJO.org For a FREE Introductory Offer or 

Get a FREE report, "How Making Good Decisions, Before You Act, is Self-Defense."

Get more information about our Martial Arts Education of Intelligent Curriculum involving Everything Self-Defense at TheDOJO located in Rutherford NJ.