10 Tips on how to protect your children from violence and predators

The “Kids-WingTsun-behaviour-rules” for children and their parents increases safety for children who are always physically inferior to grown-up attackers and predators.

10 Kids-WingTsun tips for safe a trip to school:

1. Take the trip together – The shortest way is not always the safest. Kids should take a route with a lot of pedestrians they can talk to if necessary. Take the walk with your children and show them somewhere, for example shops, where they can turn to someone in an emergency. It has to be clear to the kid: I must stay on the path and go home quickly.
2. Form groups – Arrange with other parents, so that no child has to walk by themselves. Important: All parents must talk this over with their children, so it is clear that no one is ever left behind.
3. Keep distance from strangers – Do roll-plays with your kids, ideally with other adults, who try to engage them into a conversation or talk them into getting into a car. If an adult asks for the way, the kids must keep walking and only respond with: “I am a child, ask an adult!”
4. Ban secrets – Kids love secrets and this is what offenders try to exploit. Explain to your kids that there are no secrets that mum and dad cannot know about, regardless of what another adult says.
5. Avoid names on School Bags – Never put the name and address on the outside of the school bag, but rather attach a tag on the inside.
6. Agree on a code word – Agree on a code word with your child, that can be used in case you can’t pick up your child from a meeting point. Regardless if colleague or neighbour, the person must name the code word before the kid gets into the car.
7. Practice screaming – Don’t just tell your kid to scream in an emergency, but actually practice it together.
8. Include pedestrians – Practice with your kid and some other people you know, how to ask pedestrians for help. Your child must learn to approach pedestrians in a specific manner: ”Excuse me, you in the red jacket. Please help me. That man is following me. I’m scared…”
9. Explain rights and rules – Explain what adults are allowed and not allowed to do. Especially with known persons, for example neighbours, kids are often too trusting. Set clear rules, from which there are, no exceptions and practice these in roll-plays.
10. Get support – Parents must set rules for their kids. But to practice these may be difficult, because Mum and Dad are just not strangers. Therefore ask a friend your children don’t know, to do the roll-plays with your kids or see a Kids WingTsun trainer. Golden rule for all roll-plays: The children must always know it is only a game and should never be scared.