Character Chats
How is playing by the rules fair?
Rules are an important part of life to make sure that we stay fair and safe. Fairness means playing by the rules, allowing everyone to compete and play together on an equal footing….
What is fairness?
Fairness is more about everybody getting what they need and what they deserve, not necessarily everybody getting the same. Let’s break this down and look at some examples….
Resources available here at Karate to help you be more independent
We have our Black Belt Attitudes system here in class. Our Black Belt Attitudes system is a whole series of worksheets. When the students fill them out and turn them in, they earn a black tape on their belt. These are tools to help build good resourceful and independent kids….
How to be resourceful here in karate class?
Here are a few ways students can be a little bit more resourceful here in karate class to help them on their way to earning the black belt — and in turn build habits of success they can use everywhere in their life….
How can we be resourceful in school?
One of the things with resourcefulness in school that’s important is for kids to understand why and how to get to answers. It’s not important for them to memorize answers. It’s not a matter of just finding the right answers but understanding them….
How can we get our kids to start doing things for themselves?
Resourceful people show many different character traits. They’re open-minded, confident, imaginative, creative, adaptable, and positive. They think of ways to solve problems….
How do we show compassion for ourselves?
One thing I’ve noticed with our students is we tend to have a lot of really nice people. Our students tend to be really good at showing compassion for each other. Sometimes, though, what we need to work on is showing compassion for ourselves….
How do we show compassion for animals?
Let’s talk about compassion for animals, for our non-human friends in our life that we love very much. We can read what our animals are feeling and how they’re doing — and show compassion….
How do we show compassion for somebody that’s scared or in need of help?
Compassion isn’t just empathy. It’s not just understanding how somebody feels. It’s doing something about it too. So let’s go through some different situations and talk about how we can help people out….
How do we use our empathy to show compassion?
Compassion means that when you feel bad, sad, or mad I want to help you to feel better. And it starts with empathy….