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Safe Kids, total child safety in kids that can protect themselves, is in kids that have good mental focus abilities. We call it “The Power Of Focus” because it is CRITICAL any child’s ability to protect themselves.

The fact is, if your child cannot mentally focus they will not be able to keep themselves safe. Whenever a threatening situation is developing your child needs to be able to spot it before they are caught in it. If your child is caught in a dangerous situation, they need this mental focus ability to get themselves out of it safely.

Article by Keeping Kids Safe

It’s that simple. This goes with anything, whether it’s a bully at school or a predator outside or online. Your child MUST have the ability to mentally focus in order to avoid or get out of threatening situations.

Children do learn focus abilities as they grow up. For example, in sports, they can get very good focusing on a specific thing like hitting a baseball. There are many good sports coaching websites that explain how repetition of the sports activity builds focus – its called practice. Personal safety is different.

In personal safety mental focus IS the activity. In sports, focus is a BYPRODUCT of the activity.

That is because every personal safety situation is fluid, dynamic, changing and rarely repeated.
It is why good mental focus is so important. A child needs to be able to assess what is unfolding and make decisions on how to deal with it for their best interest, their safety.

We teach mental focus techniques first in all our safety classes, even our online classes, because it lays the foundation for child safety and safety for a lifetime.

The first step in improving your child’s focus ability is in understanding that mental focus powers for a child are very different from mental focus for an adult.

Kids have so much information coming into their brain constantly as they grow and experience the world around them. Because they are so young, they have limited ability to process this stimulation so they just observe it. This is why they have limited focus ability. They jump from one thing to another.

Doing mental focus exercises with your child, you will begin to be able to help them “slow down” their minds and begin to process and understand the information coming at them. Is this easy? Sometimes. Sometimes it is challenging.

The most important point is, a child’s focus abilities can most certainly be improved!
When it is done in an atmosphere of fun the results are astounding.

We recommend playing focus games with your child.
There are innumerable GAMES to play that increase mental focus. You’ve played them as a child, too!

One of our favorite games is “The Blinking Game.” This is where you sit opposite your child and see who can stare at each other the longest without blinking. You never thought this was making you safer when you played it as a child, did you!

Another game to play, especially when your child is watching television, is the “Sit Tall” game.
When the commercials come on, play a game where whoever can sit up straight and quietly with no talking, no moving the longest during the commercial, wins!

Make up your own games. If your child is young, keep the time limited to a few minutes, every other day or so. Offer a “win reward” at the end for the best player, such as a cookie, and KEEP THEM FUN!

You’ll notice in as short as a week or two the increased focus abilities in your own child. You can slowly increase the duration of each game, too, as your child gets better and better at it. The benefits to both you and your child will increase as well! It means better safety for your child and a child with a better ability to listen to you!

Preston Jones and Joyce Jackson are child safety experts in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA. Keeping Kids Safe^TM is a comprehensive personal safety course covering the full gamut of the things kids need to know today to be safe in their environment. Their entire APPROACH to child safety is UNIQUE. Some of the ideas they use you have heard. Some of the techniques they have you have seen. What they do is put it all together in a very effective and unique way. One, they teach kids to keep themselves safe. Two, they teach parents to reinforce their safety techniques at home by making families better with safer kids.