How To Really Protect Your Child From Predators

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Protecting Your Child From Predators

Martial Arts is not the answer to this problem…!

“Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.” — Lois McMaster Bujold, 1991

Recently in the news we have seen another child fall prey to a predator. This time the little girl was at a carwash and the abduction was caught on tape.

Whenever such an incident occurs, my inbox is flooded with emails asking me to create a “Target Focused Training” program for children.

The sad fact is that teaching a child to physically fight an adult “predator” is woefully ineffective and very misguided.

If a hyena were stalking a lion cub none of us would expect the cub to be able to fend off the hyena. Yet we somehow wish that our children would be able to do just that.

More importantly, some ask that the child be taught to not speak to or even more unrealistic, shout out, if the predator asks them to leave the area with them.

We fall “prey” every day to some very effective sales people and advertising (just look around at all the useless exercise machines gathering dust in many of your houses!). These predators targeting children are some of the most effective “salesmen” when it comes to manipulation those young, trusting minds.

They appeal to very emotional triggers in children. But we somehow hope that these young developing minds can distinguish friend from foe. This type of thinking truly is EFFECT STATE in the highest order.

Effect State will not only get you killed — but also (tragically) those loved ones you are responsible for like children and elderly relatives. We’d like to think that there’s some special training we can give our kids that will relieve us from our responsibility should we falter in our vigilance…

— THERE ISN’T… it’s ours until they are past that vulnerable stage of life.

My clients realize that the physical fight training they get with “Target Focused Training” (one-on-one, hand-to-hand, multiple attackers, fighting with and against weapons) is the FINAL option. It is VERY necessary for an adult and TFT certainly provides the finest, most complete, and brutally effective program to handle LETHAL criminal violence.

But my goal is to keep that option from ever happening to my clients in the first place. And more importantly — that it never happens to those loved ones who can’t protect themselves. But that doesn’t necessarily occur from you applying one of TFT’s bone-snapping, lethal techniques on a “predator” who attempts to abduct your child.

The biggest deterrent to a hyena trying to stalk a lion cub… is a very alert lioness. Not one that is looking to kill hyenas… but one who is very aware of her cubs and her surroundings, constantly assessing possible trouble spots and keeping the cubs away from obvious potential dangers as well as the not so obvious.

If it comes down to her having to take action, then woe be to the hyena. But most times her living in CAUSE STATE is more than enough to send the hyena packing and off to a less vigilant guardian.

I have a young son who has yet to really receive any training from me other than the basics about dealing with adults unknown to him. There’ll be plenty of time, as he becomes an adult, to transfer the responsibility for physically protecting himself.

Until then it’s his family’s responsibility to protect him. Understanding and living in CAUSE STATE makes that job much easier for me.

Until next time,

Tim Larkin
Creator of Target-Focus(TM) Training
http://www.targetfocustraining.com
PS. In just one weekend you can learn to defeat any
attacker using the Target-Focus Training system. See how at:
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