Teach your child self-defense skills

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Teach your child self-defense skills

Parents should teach children how to observe and recognize dangerous situations with children. For example, telling children to stay away from places where they feel unsafe or threatened or scared, such as drinkers, avoid dark, lonely places, avoid watching pornographic books, movies, etc.

Society is more and more modern day, the quality of human life has been improved. But also dragged along with it many downsides. In particular, there are risks that can stalk babies such as: kidnapping, abuse, being drawn into the use of drugs, ... For children to avoid these risks, first Parents should teach their children how to protect themselves.

Instruct children to stay away from adverse situations

Parents should teach children how to observe and recognize dangerous situations with children. For example, telling children to stay away from places where they feel unsafe or threatened or afraid, such as drinkers, avoid dark, lonely places, avoid watching pornographic books, movies, etc.

Teach children to refuse in some cases

- When a stranger offers a child to eat something.

- Someone invites children to go out but they themselves do not know that person well and have not been allowed by their parents.

- If anyone gives them some medicine.

- If there is someone the child does not know very well, please take them home.

- If someone touches private parts of the body.

- If someone asks the child not to tell his parents something ...

Teach your children to respond in an emergency

- "Run as quickly as possible". Do not talk, argue, follow someone who is trying to get the child to go or give them something.

- "Have to tell your parents what is going on even if someone is threatening you." Let children understand that telling their parents what is happening, they will avoid many dangers and receive the support they need from their parents.

- Finding help: Instruct on how to find help in case of danger. Let them understand that people are ready to protect them when they are threatened. ..

In fact, parents always seek to protect children and teach them to protect themselves from dangers, but sometimes in life it is difficult to say anything. Chances are, there are unfortunate situations happening with your child. Like a child being abused, kidnapped ... If when a child falls into those circumstances, what should parents do? There are many people suffering, resentment and even angry and scolded children for "ignorance" ... But maybe the person who is most hurt the most is the child. Children can suffer serious emotional and physical harm. Children can panic, get depressed, lose confidence in life ... after the unfortunate incident happened.

Therefore, parents should not scold or torment their children, but accompany them to encourage them to talk about what has happened to the child, the hurts and fears that the child is going through. Analyze your child so that they can learn to protect themselves if they fall into such situations.

Don't ignore the child's hurts, concerns and questions. Hold the child tightly and say “What the person said or treated to the child was unacceptable. Parents are very angry when they know this, but feel happy to have their children's trust ”. Then by all means not let the child come into contact with the person who abused the child and avoid letting the child fall into similar situations.