Karate Kids: Children and Martial Arts
encourage all parents to watch for. Check to ensure that a black belt instructor, or at least a very high ranking brown belt, is teaching the very young. Ensure that the instructor is not promoting fighting for ages 4 to 6. This is not an appropriate skill for this age group to be learning. The concept of “sparring” or fighting is reserved only for older students who understand the philosophy of sparring.
Parents need to trust their intuition. For very young students, the instructor should be incorporating lots of games and activities into their workouts. If it feels that the instructor is not having fun and enjoying his young students, then this is not an appropriate environment for kids and parents need to keep looking.”
In addition to building confidence and self-esteem, classes in martial arts offers other benefits as well. According to
