The Motivator Molecule

To truly change children’s behaviors, parents need to understand how to boost dopamine in natural and positive ways.

Parent SKILLZ 6: Nurturing

Nurturing means changing the behavior, not the child. Look at their mistakes as opportunities for education versus punishment.

Parent SKILLZ 5: Edutainment

Be the parent your child needs you to be. When you edutain, you help your child learn in a behavior that they embrace.

Parent SKILLZ 4: Consistency

Be as consistent and reliable as possible with your child as you can, regardless of your mood, and they will learn to be consistent and reliable with you, too.

Parent SKILLZ 3: Connection

One of the most important things that you can do as a parent is establish a connection with your child. In fact, children need connection more than anything else.

Parent SKILLZ 2: Attunement

Improving your attunement skills will allow you to create a more patient and understanding relationship with your child.
Your child will have a variety of great days, bad days, and everything in between – just like we do as adults.

Utilizing Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivators, adding the tips in our new blog to your parenting tool kit can help you make the best of your child’s behaviors and moods…plus get what needs to be done, done!

Parent SKILLZ 1: Adaptability

Adaptability is about how you respond to your child, especially when things do not go as planned.

Your child will have a variety of great days, bad days, and everything in between – just like we do as adults.

Utilizing Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivators, adding the tips in our new blog to your parenting tool kit can help you make the best of your child’s behaviors and moods…plus get what needs to be done, done!

The Power of Teaching SKILLZ

On the mats, there are 8 specific science and psychology based Teaching SKILLZ that we are actively and interchangeably engaging in with our ninjas via age-specific game-based drills.

P.I.E.S.

The SKILLZ program’s continuing education materials allow our instructors to effectively teach our students in these four dimensions: Physically, Intellectually, Emotionally, and Socially.

Age-Specific Curriculum

To alleviate the dissatisfaction in children’s martial arts classes, the SKILLZ program was developed after years of research in the areas of child development, neuroscience, and psychology. The result, a child development course that uses martial arts as a vehicle for teaching.