Thursday, August 9, 2018

How to Prevent Bullying: Back to School with Martial Arts

How to Prevent Bullying: Back to School with Martial Arts

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

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



 Bullying is a devastating part of modern-day school life - one that can deter the most spirited of kids from enjoying their childhood and giving their best in school. According to experts, bullying is among the most psychologically damaging aspects of a child’s school years. It can take on menacing forms like cyberbullying and sexual harassment; it can cause entrenched and long-lasting damage that can even lead to depression, trauma and suicide; and it may affect everyone involved alike, whether they are the victims, the witnesses, or the bullies themselves. Despite the many collective and state-led efforts to stop bullying, bullying had never been totally eradicated from our schools. The answer to putting an end to bullying perhaps lies in more individual and personal solutions, like self-defense – and there is no better self-defense for school-going children than martial arts.

Fight Bullying with Bruce McCorry’s Martial Arts Self-Defense
Bullying often happens in unsupervised circumstances and spaces, or when adults are not present. Cyberspace is a major site of bullying that cannot be monitored. This indicates that any real solution should fight the problem at its roots – it should discourage potentially violent kids from turning into bullies, and it should equip the targeted kids to defend themselves.

For Bruce McCorry’s Academy of Martial Arts (Peabody, MA), the four decades of experience in teaching martial arts has been proof enough to believe that martial arts can be an effective way to put an end to bullying by fighting the root causes of the problem.
  • Martial arts is an effective, easy-to-master self-defense available for children. It teaches kids to be alert to their surroundings, stay calm in the situations of emergency, and defend themselves if necessary. Martial art, in addition, helps children to be stronger, healthier and courageous. Together, these factors will reduce the chances of martial art learners being targeted by bullies. Thus, martial art helps the potential victims.
  • Martial arts are also for those children who may target and bully others. Martial art gives potentially violent children an efficient way to channelize their energy, anger and frustration, each of which may otherwise turn them into bullying and harassing others. Martial arts is a great way to learn cooperation, respect and kindness. Learning martial arts will help children to get over narcissistic and egotistic emotions, thus discouraging them from targeting the weaknesses of other children.
  • Even in an unsupervised situation, martial art learners have a greater chance of standing up for the victims and discouraging the bullies, since most of the arts teach them values such as companionship, courage, and confidence.
  • Martial arts is also a great healing mechanism. It is quite natural that kids who were involved in bullying may go through psychological consequences. Martial arts, as a stress-relief mechanism and an alternate healing program, helps children to cope with the psychological and emotional damage done by bullying. Thus it not only prevents bullying, but also heals the wounds of past bullying.

Martial arts is the way to fight bullying and make sure that your children have a better school year than the one just passed by. Get your children prepared for being back to school and its bullying, with Bruce McCorry’s Martial Arts.

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

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

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