Virginia Beach Martial Arts Safety Tips for Parents, Teachers, and Guardians.
Help Keep Their Children Safe & Don’t Be A Target!

~Senior Master Thomas, 7th Degree~

While many parents and guardians feel they are faced with new and unprecedented challenges when trying to keep their children safer in today’s fast-paced and increasingly global society, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children offers these common-sense, general safety tips to help parents and guardians put these challenges into perspective. Parents and guardians should choose opportunities or “teachable” moments to reinforce safety skills. (www.ATAKICK.com) If an incident occurs in your community, and your children ask about it, speak frankly but with reassurance. Explain to your children that you want to discuss the safety rules with the, so they will know what to do if they are ever confronted with a difficult situation. Master Thomas states: “Make sure you have “safety nets” in place, so your children know there is always someone who can help them.”

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Senior Master Thomas’ Changing Lives ATA Martial Arts

Tips for Going to and From School More Safely

Every day millions of children take to the streets and roadways to get to and from school. They walk, ride their bicycles, take buses, and arrive in automobiles with one purpose-getting to and from school safely. Every year approximately 440,000 public school buses travel more than 4 billion miles to transport 24 million children to and from school and school-related activities. For many children, this experience is a new one, and they may not understand the safety rules. Young children do not have the same frame of reference for safety as adults do. They many not “look before they leap,” which is why it is so important for families to supervise young children and practice safety sills with their older children. The tips noted below will help prepare your children for a safer journey.

Changing Lives ATA Karate
Changing One Million Lives -starts with a small Karate step in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
February 5th, 2010

Virginia Beach, Virginia
ATA School Owner: Senior Master Tracy Lee Thomas
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The American Taekwondo Association began in 1969 and has introduced over One Million people to the “Worldwide Karate” Songahm(style of Karate) family, growing ever closer to our goal of touching one million lives through the practice and principles of Karate. Martial Art Instructors around the world are spreading the vision of our founder, Eternal Grand Master H.U. Lee.

Senior Master Thomas states, Know the Rules…. Understand The Safety Tips for Children and Don’t be a Target!

Always TAKE A FRIEND with you when playing or going somewhere. It’s safer and more fun.

Always CHECK FIRST with your parents, guardians or trusted adult in charge before you go anywhere or do anything.

Don’t be tricked by people who offer you special treats or gifts. Never accept anything from anyone without your parents’ or guardians’ permission.

Changing Lives ATA Martial Arts Offers General Tips for Parents and Guardians.
Senior Master Thomas wants you to know how to be safe and
DON’T BE A TARGET!

While many parents and guardians feel they are faced with new and unprecedented challenges when trying to keep their children safer in today’s fast-paced and increasingly global society, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children offers these common-sense, general safety tips to help parents and guardians put these challenges into perspective. Parents and guardians should choose opportunities or “teachable” moments to reinforce safety skills.

Changing Lives Martial Arts & Kidz’n Power Tips
By Senior Master T. L. Thomas

www.ATAKICK.com

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