Friday, September 7, 2018

Ten Practical Ways to Put an End to Cyberbullying

Ten Practical Ways to Put an End to Cyberbullying



Bruce McCorry's Martial Arts Center
220 Newbury St
Peabody MA 01960

Phone: (978) 535-7878
Email: info@brucemccorrys.com


As parents, perhaps it is the hardest task out there to protect your child from something as malicious as cyberbullying. This is so, partly because your child may be reluctant to open up to you if he/she is the victim of any kind of bullying. With cyberbullying, all this is even more difficult because it doesn’t happen in sites where adult intervention is possible. Given these facts, what are some real, practical ways to protect your child from cyberbullying?

10 Practical Tips to Fight Cyberbullying
  1. Familiarizing yourself with technology and keeping an eye on your child’s cyber profiles is a good way to ensure if they are involved in cyberbullying, as victims or perpetrators.
  2. In your home, placing the computer at a publicly visible spot helps to spot instances of cyberbullying. With older children, teenagers, or kids who browse social media from personal devices, it is desirable to ask if you could view their social profiles.
  3. By talking to kids, spending quality time with them, and explaining to them the positives and negatives of internet use, you can earn their trust. It will also help you to note any changes in their mood or behavior.
  4. Try to casually mingle with your child’s peers and classmates in possible contexts, so that you know whom your child spends time with and what they have to tell about bullying/cyberbullying among their classmates.
  5. Familiarize your children with what counts as cyberbullying and how cyberbullying may affect those who involve in it as bullies, victims and viewers. Grasping the seriousness of the issue may make them disclose to you instances of cyberbullying that they have encountered, at least as witnesses.
  6. If you are convinced that your child is a victim of cyberbullying, never jump to conclusions regarding damaging material, or assume that your child is to blame in some way. Try to talk to them regarding the nature and duration of bullying. Seek professional help from a counselor if needed.
  7. Ask him/her to resist from responding online. Instead, document posts so that they can be used to prove your child’s claim and help him/her in legal/psychological circumstances.
  8. Do not behave in ways that may complicate the issue, such as asking your child to ignore bullying, trivializing it, forbidding kids from using social media, taking out your emotions on them, or provoking them to retort. Even if you discover that your child is a bully, the best route to take is to talk to him/her and get a counsellor’s help.
  9. As cyberbullying might also be caused by or trigger real-life bullying, talk to your child’s school authorities to make sure that bullying does not happen in school. If your child’s involvement with cyberbullying sounds damaging or unhealthy, do not hesitate to seek legal and psychological help.
  10. Finally, teaching your child self-defense is the most effective and thorough solution to help him/her. A good self-defense technique like martial arts can make children confident, assertive, brave, and respectful of others. In professional martial art schools like Bruce McCorry’s Academy, you could even opt for programs like afterschool martial arts, thus easily fitting in self-defense to your child’s schedule.
At the beginning of new school year, say no to bullying 
through self-defense and awareness.

Bruce McCorry's Martial Arts Center
220 Newbury St
Peabody MA 01960

Phone: (978) 535-7878
Email: info@brucemccorrys.com






Wednesday, September 5, 2018

The Ultimate Back-to-School Companion for Children

Martial Arts: The Ultimate Back-to-School 
Companion for Children

Bruce McCorry's Martial Arts Center
220 Newbury St
Peabody MA 01960

Phone: (978) 535-7878
Email: info@brucemccorrys.com




Stepping back to school after another summer is always an act filled with the promise of a new, better school year. If you are among those children, or if you have a child who hopes to do better and bigger in the coming school year, then martial arts is for you. Children’s martial arts holds the ultimate and perfect solution to improving a child’s performance in school, thoroughly revamping their life from all aspects.

Martial Arts for School-Going Children: The Life-Changing Choice
It is often with hesitation that parents of school-going children approach martial arts. The doubts ranger from whether martial arts will tax my child too much to whether it will provide any benefits at all. The following points will tell you that martial arts is probably the best co-curricular activity that your child can take up in their schedule during schooldays, all for the right reasons:
  • Self-Esteem: Martial arts build confidence, teach kids to esteem themselves. Instilling confidence is a process that martial arts achieves through training methods that are challenging but rewarding a learner’s self-worth. Self-worth, confidence and self-esteem have a great role in determining their performance in school, especially in team work, public speaking, and examinations.
  • Motivation: Most of the kids who struggle in school do so because they fail to find the right kind of motivation. Martial art teaches children to shift the focus from extrinsic factors of motivation such as marks, grades and incentives to intrinsic motivating factors such as the desire for knowledge, pleasure of working and so on. This pushes your child in the right direction in academics.
  • Focus: Attention and focus are other key factors in improving a child’s performance in school. To do well in school, work, and life, a child must necessarily be attentive toward the immediate happenings that surrounds him/her. Being alert in a classroom is an instance. A child should also learn to focus perseveringly on goals. Martial arts, through strategies of training the mind and senses, teaches children both immediate alertness and long term focus on things that matter.
  • Co-Curricular Excellence: Martial arts help children to shine not just in studies, but also in a number of other activities including sports, athletics and arts. Children with a passion for sports are probably the most benefited from martial arts, as it helps them to achieve athletic nature, fitness, quickness of body and mind, coordination of senses, and energy.
  • Dealing with Distractions: Perhaps the greatest benefit of martial arts for school-going children is that it helps kids to deal with concerns such as bullying, peer-pressure, stress, issues with fitting in, and much more. Fighting bullying by oneself was never a possibility until martial arts came to the scene: with the strength, confidence, purpose of mind and assertiveness provided by martial arts, saying no to bullying is finally possible for even those children who are timid and perceived as weaklings.

If you are all set to add an hour of martial arts to your child’s schedule for all the benefits it can provide, the children’s martial art lessons at Bruce McCorry’s Academy, the 40-year-old professional martial art school is what you need. 

Join today to experience quality martial arts under 
adept instructors in the safest of environments!

Bruce McCorry's Martial Arts Center
220 Newbury St
Peabody MA 01960

Phone: (978) 535-7878
Email: info@brucemccorrys.com

Monday, September 3, 2018

Fitting In and Learning Self-Esteem: Martial Arts for Kids

Fitting In and Learning Self-Esteem: Martial Arts for Kids
 at Bruce McCorry’s Academy

Bruce McCorry's Martial Arts Center
220 Newbury St
Peabody MA 01960

Phone: (978) 535-7878
Email: info@brucemccorrys.com



 No parent fails to dream about a successful and happy future for their children, and are willing to do anything to make sure that they do well in school, college and later life. However, while parents do tend to focus on studies and safety of their children, their social life and classroom experience is something which most parents tend to overlook. This significant issue was pointed out by sociologist Robert Crosnoe in his monumental study that came from the University of Texas at Austin in 2011. The study suggested that those kids who find it hard to fit in school have a huge chance of dropping out of college, or not opting for college altogether. Addressing issues regarding social experience, such as fitting in and self-esteem, thus have a great role in ensuring a successful future for your child.

Fitting In and Self-Esteem: How Martial Arts Helps
Martial arts is a life-changing option awaiting you, if you have a kid who finds it difficult to fit in and socialize with his/her classmates or has self-esteem issues. Martial art lessons can help children with their social life in many ways:
  • Training in martial arts helps children to develop an inner sense of their self-worth and capability. Each martial art comes with emotional and spiritual benefits whose roots go back to the traditions, values and methods they inherited over centuries. Familiarizing with a martial art can help children to be alive to their inner worth and uniqueness.
  • Martial arts help kids with confidence, assertiveness and self-esteem. Voicing themselves is not always easy even in democratic classroom settings, when factors like peer-pressure, imbalances of power and bullying are taken into consideration. Martial arts can teach children to confidently deal with such challenges.
  • Learning martial arts also help children to rule out a number of factors from their life that might cause them problems in fitting in. Martial arts can help with obesity, as it will improve fitness and health. The way martial arts impacts memory and thinking skills is a great way to improve academic performance. Martial arts will make children athletic, sporty and spirited. All of these can ease their social experience in classroom.
  • As much as martial arts may help children to fit in, it can also teach kids to be proud of their difference. Children, especially teenagers may find it difficult to deal what they feel as oddities in their life, such as health conditions, body image issues, social factors like ethnicity, sexual preference and so on. Martial arts can help children and teenagers to be proud of their differences and embrace their true selves.

A major issue when it comes to issues of self-worth and fitting in is that children may not always be open about their concerns with parents or peers, something that is particularly true for teenagers. The only way to help them is to enable them to deal with such concerns by themselves, as adult intervention is not always possible or effective. This is where a professional martial art school with adept instructors, like the Bruce McCorry’s Academy (Peabody, MA) can help your child. Regular martial arts training at the hands of experienced teachers can teach children to be comfortable in their own skin, be confident about themselves, and still fit in comfortably with their classmates and peers. Opt martial arts today for a bright tomorrow.

Bruce McCorry's Martial Arts Center
220 Newbury St
Peabody MA 01960

Phone: (978) 535-7878
Email: info@brucemccorrys.com