Help Your Child Develop GRIT and Set them up for Success in life!

Black Belt Parenting

Perseverance is a characteristic that can only be taught through placing your child in circumstances where they may want to quit or where they will fail. Parents often have difficulty watching their kids struggle, but it’s an important thing for them to experience. Listen to Kathy Sacoulas talk about how perseverance is gained through martial arts and how we can apply it to our parenting.

1:24: Perseverance defined/Grit Defined

2:30: immediate gratification counters the development of perseverance

2:40: how martial arts develops perseverance in students

4:38: the journey is more fruitful than the destination

5:29: trust the process

5:50: Moving the students through phases of training shows their perseverance

6:26: Sparring as an example of developing grit and perseverance

9:15: You must lean into discomfort to gain perseverance

11:00: The importance of failure

14:28: applying these principles to parenting

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