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Self-Esteem Gain for Overweight Children

What we do everyday in the Martial Arts!   And why MA is the perfect vehicle for an overweight

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1. The martial arts will get them in shape.

2. It will change how they feel about who they

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3. It will teach them how to project themselves to others.

I can remember growing up in The Bronx. At the time, we lived in the projects on Castle Hill Ave. All during the week, Monday through Friday, I would rush home from school making sure I was in the house by 4:00pm to watch Superman, Clark Kent, Jimmy Olsen, Lois Lane and yes, Perry White (Great Cesar's Ghost!).

 I didn't miss an episode. Even today, I collect digital comic book covers and some Superman

memorabilia. Saturday mornings, it was Superman cartoons; that was the routine at our house.

Sunday's  however, was different. If you remember, there were no cartoons on Sundays. We would

have to wake up early and get dressed for church. Mom would give us all a quarter for the church

basket and send us off. I was the oldest, so I was in charge of my younger brother and four

sisters. The church was across the street, St. John Vianney. I remember sitting in the pew,

praying every Sunday, for God to grant me the powers of Superman. I promised him “God”  I would do good and help people all over the world. This was the prayer each and every Sunday for many years.

After Church, we would then go to my Grandparents to eat with the rest of the thirty or so other

family members, Aunts, Uncles and Cousins.

I can look back now I find it funny, because I go to work everyday, and I put on a uniform that empowers me to be the best I can be every time I wear it and in front of anyone I teach; whether it's a child or an adult, male or female; it doesn't make a difference. Astronaut or C.E.O. of a major fortune 500 company, it's a magical feeling to be empowered by putting on a uniform. Superman can fly. Never did I ever make a conscious decision to become a pilot because Superman can fly, and I wanted to be like Superman. However, I am a pilot, and I do fly. Superman can see far.  As I approach my older years, my eye sight starting declining,  I went and had Lasik surgery. When your sight starts to fade, due to old age, and you can't see well, getting your sight back makes you feel empowered. Superman can bend steel with his bare hands. I can punch through three half inch pieces of wood stacked on each other. So when anyone asks, what is a Black Belt? I smile to myself and know it is me and everyone else that puts on that martial arts uniform.

P.S. Oh, and be careful of what you pray for.

Master Ron Tramontano

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Caring

There exist a differance in caring for someone and caring about someone. The later requires a commitment that enbrases both types of caring, while the other exists in words and feelings. Exhibiting concern for others; is what I call right thinking and will led you to be known by the least of your fellows.

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Who Bullies?

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Who bullies?

Students who engage in bullying behaviors seem to have a need to feel powerful and in control.

Boys tend to use physical intimidation or threats, regardless of the gender of their victims. Bullying by girls is more often verbal, usually with another girl as the target. Cyber-bullying by both boys and girls - in online chat rooms, e-mail, and text-messaging - is increasing. Direct bullying seems to increase through the elementary school years, peak in the middle school/junior high school years, and decline during the high school years. Although direct physical assault seems to decrease with age, verbal abuse appears to remain constant. Whether the bullying is direct or indirect, the key component of bullying is physical or psychological intimidation that occurs repeatedly over time to create an ongoing pattern of harassment and abuse. Stay tune to this blog as we delve into a parents worse nightmare. Bullying

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Respect

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Respect is a term many of us use but few of us understand. Many times we fall into the trap of using this word and directing it to a title or a position, instead of a person. A person, who has a title or a position, deserves and should get our attention, because of the knowledge they have acquired on a particular subject. It is only after a person has been shown to possess the qualities and attributes we admire, would they earn our respect. The key word here is earn.

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Social.tman.com is currently working to bring you new content on a weekly even daily basis, however if you are an active martial artist and would like to contribute to our Blog, please do so by signing up. Then just start writing.

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How Do Children Handle Fight Or Flight Response?

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Children and Adults alike handle Fight Or Flight Response in much the same way. However, as life teaches us, it's not what happens to us that is important. Things will always happen to us.  It's what we do with what happens to us that is ultimately the deciding factors as to our success or failure. Fight or flight is our body's primitive, automatic, inborn response that prepares the body to "fight" or "flee" from perceived attack, harm or threat to our survival. What are the signs that our fight or flight response has been stimulated or activated?. When our fight or flight response is activated, sequences of nerve cell firing occur and chemicals like adrenaline, noradrenaline and cortisol are released into our bloodstream. Blood is shunted away from our digestive tract and directed into our muscles and limbs, which require extra energy and fuel for running and fighting. In short, many of the major stresses today trigger the full activation of our fight or flight response, causing us to become aggressive, hyper vigilant and over-reactive. To protect ourselves today, we must consciously pay attention to the signals of fight or flight. For example, in times of emotional jeopardy, the fight or flight response can sharpen our mental acuity, thereby helping us deal decisively with issues, moving us to action. If you end up in a fight, you'll hit harder, jump higher and think and dodge faster than usual. We often forget how much of a problem overwhelming anxiety can be. Panic attacks, social anxiety, generalized anxiety and obsessive compulsive disorder all have the potential to be quite disabling. A child who is not well adjusted, possibly having low self esteem and being overweight, has little chance of being successful. It's in my opinion that there can be no better activity to address this type of concern other than Martial Arts. Please check our Blog's.

 

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Raising Confident Kids

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Confidence comes to us  through experience and feeling good in our own body- Experience comes about by doing things for our self. If your child asks you to do something you know they have the ability to do by  them self, step back and insist they do it.  Your children will acquire the experience and will truly be excited once you  start to jump up and down shouting to the world how great they have done. Children observe the messages that are played out through their family's beliefs about size, shape, weight and self esteem. Parents can often be alerted to problem signs of low self esteem in their children when their child mentions a falling out with another child at school. Young children will often act aggressively when things don't go their way - they lash out, bite, kick, hit and punch. This is because children learn through observation, there is a close connection between childhood obesity and self esteem issues. Please look here for more information. http://www.itsasaveit.com/pitchpage.html

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Fairness/Mercy

You should realize that there is a great reward of personal satisfaction in being first just, next fair, then patient, then kind. And then, on that foundation, if you choose and have it in your heart, you can take the next step and really show mercy; but you cannot exhibit mercy in and of itself. These steps must be traversed; otherwise there can be no genuine mercy. There may be patronage, condescension, or charity--even pity--but not mercy. True mercy comes only as the beautiful climax to these preceding adjuncts to group understanding, mutual appreciation, fraternal fellowship, spiritual communion, and divine harmony.

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Might and Right

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"Might does not make right, but might does make what is and what has been in history. Only recently has Urantia "Earth" reached that point where society is willing to debate the ethics of might and right." Urantia

 

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Conscience

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Conscience, untaught by experience and unaided by reason, never has been, and never can be, a safe and unerring guide to human conduct. Conscience is not a divine voice speaking to the human soul. It is merely the sum total of the moral and ethical content of the mores of any current stage of existence; it simply represents the humanly conceived ideal of reaction in any given set of circumstances. Urantia

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Brett Loewenstern The Next American Idol

Brett Loewenstern The Next American Idol - Boca Raton, FL, United States, 33428 - The Martial Arts Network Blog post The Martial Arts Networkhomemy homevideosaudiophotosblogssetsmembersgroupsmessage boardchat add a blog postmy blogmost recenthighest ratedmost viewedtop favoritesmost comments log injoin nowforgot password advanced video audio photo blog member group message sets pages .ka_letterboxComment {background-position:center !important}Brett Loewenstern The Next American IdolWritten byRont3986752 months agoWe here at West Boca Karate would like to wish one of our Black Belts, Brett Loewenstern, all the best as he moves forward towards his dream of being The Next American Idol. Great job Brett.

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Citizenship

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We are responsible to each other on many levels for many things that traverse our daily lives each day. Where does being a good citizen pickup and where does it stop? I don’t know. However, I do know to be known as a good person and a caring part of a community “a good citizen”, can only be determined by others never by you. Knowing this, your worth is in your deeds.

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Being overweight has become a serious problem for many kids and adults.

Being overweight has become a serious problem for many kids and adults. - Boca Raton, FL, United States, 33428 - The Martial Arts Network Blog post The Martial Arts Networkhomemy homevideosaudiophotosblogssetsmembersgroupsmessage boardchat add a blog postmy blogmost recenthighest ratedmost viewedtop favoritesmost comments log injoin nowforgot password advanced video audio photo blog member group message sets pages .ka_letterboxComment {background-position:center !important}Being overweight has become a serious problem for many kids and adults.Written byRont3986752 months ago  These days, being overweight is more common than being underweight. Children that are overweight might get teased or find it hard to keep up with friends on the playground. How does a child become overweight? When people eat more calories than they burn off, their bodies store the extra calories as fat. Doctors use the terms "overweight" or "obese" to describe when someone is at greatest risk of developing weight-related health problems. Do you have an overweight child? I the answer is Yes please look here. http://itsasaveit.com/pitchpage.html

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What’s More Dangerous to a Child than a Stranger with Candy?

Boca Raton Martial Arts Master on a mission to defeat childhood obesity

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Childhood obesity is an enemy that relentlessly pursues children every day. From processed foods at home to fatty school lunches to children parked in front of computer games at night, the odds are against children being healthy in mind and body. Obesity threatens the lives of America’s children.

“If a real, live person were after your children, determined to give them a life-threatening disease, I do not believe you would stand by and let it happen,” says Martial Arts Master Ron Tramontano. “All it takes to make a difference in the life of an obese child is a parent with a personality.”

Tramontano has developed a weight loss program for obese children that combines the self-esteem boosting effects of Martial Arts training with plating/calorie-saving techniques. In his newly released book, It’s Not a DIET, It’s a SAVE-it, he defines strategies that parents and obese children can use, together, to achieve serious weight loss and self-esteem gain. In It’s Not a DIET, It’s a SAVE-it Tramontano describes how to

Approach the idea of weight loss with a child
Explain the SAVE-it Weight Loss Program in an exciting way
Motivate any child
Employ the tenets of the Tang Soo Do Martial Arts form as a catalyst for change

Ron Tramontano has used the SAVE-it Weight Loss Program for over 25 years in his West Boca Karate Center in Boca Raton, Florida, to help obese children and their parents overcome the enemy of obesity.

He is on a mission to defeat childhood obesity and has launched a series of Comcast cable commercials to create interest in his program. His “take a free month and get a free book” commercial has resulted in soaring enrollments. His website challenges Fortune 500 companies and our nation’s leaders to get on board and become part of a solution that will wipe out obesity in America.

Tramontano is the chairman and founder of both the North American Tang Soo Do Federation and The Martial Arts Network Online. At West Boca Karate he oversees the instruction of over 800 students and 160 Black Belts a week.

Ron Tramontano, West Boca Karate Center
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I applaud and thank all the people who have taken part in providing and creating the history, year by year in your last two issues of BM. However, I feel you have left out a very important part of the history of the martial arts that took place in the 90’s up to today. The Martial Arts Network http://www.martial-arts-network.com  as it was known to the world when it launched online in Nov. of 1995. Now www.tman.com and a new social media site at http://social.tman.com  have been created to move forward in an effort for this community to have our own 24/7 television network. We here at TMAN “The Martial Arts Network” feel someone out there will take the reins and run with this great idea. This became the first ever martial arts website dedicate to what we do.  Our welcome to the many dedicated martial arts practitioners “upward of a million a month at one point” around the world that frequent our website read. “Welcome to The Martial Arts Network On-Line, one of the world's first and largest electronic forums dedicated to promoting the future of martial arts. Our web site is the cyberspace headquarters for many unique services that are now becoming available to the martial arts community. Since 1995” I hope you will look at this, take the time to view the videos that document the efforts made by The Martial Arts Network on http://social.tman.com/ and on www.tman.com

Thank you for your time

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The chairman and founder of both NATSDF (North American Tang Soo Do Federation) and TMAN (The Martial Arts Network Online, (http://www.tman.com). An accomplished screenplay writer (Time Master Trilogy) (http://www.tman.com/TMaster/tmaster), successful entrepreneur, businessman, and author is located in Boca Raton, Florida. A martial arts master in the style of Tang Soo Do. Teaches and oversee the instruction of over eight hundred students and 160 black belts a week at my facility, West Boca Karate Center (http://www.westbocakarate.com/ established in 1986. Author of four books, It’s Not a Diet It’s a Save It: (http://www.itsasaveit.com/) How Children Can Achieve Serious Weight Loss and Self-Esteem Gain (Rainbow Books, Inc.), A Practical Guide to Self Defense thru The Martial Arts and The Tang Soo Do Forms Workbook and the soon-to-be-released, Children’s Stories Of Martial Arts Wisdom (Once Upon A Masters Time http://www.lulu.com/content/5841840) Please feel free to call me anytime if you need more information, or if you wish to discuss specific styles.

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We all have Responsibilities to do the things, we say we will do. I have said this little quote for years “ You are only as good as your word ” if your word is no good then you are no good. That may sound harsh at first but the truth is often eye opening.

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The ability to do what is right, even though your decision may not be popular, to exhibit indomitable courage in the face of immensity. Note: If we see courage (strength of character) as being desirable? Then must man be reared in an environment which necessitates grappling with hardships and reacting to disappointments. Urantia

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Dwelling on positive things give your thoughts power and then shape. However this also works in reverse.

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They appear to derive satisfaction from inflicting injury and suffering on others, seem to have little empathy for their victims, and often defend their actions by saying that their victims provoked them in some way. Students who regularly display bullying behaviors are generally defiant or oppositional toward adults, antisocial , and apt to break school rules. There is little evidence to support the contention that bullyies victimize others because they feel bad about themselves. Please go here for more information:

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You must first recognize man as your brother, and if you honestly desire to do by him as you would have him do by you, the commonplace dictates of justice, honesty, and fairness will guide you in the just and impartial settlement of every recurring problem of economic rewards and social justice. Urantia

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Simple Tips for April Fool's Day Fun!

It’s April Fool’s Day! What do you expect will happen? Some people dread this holiday. Others skip it. But if you’re a parent, it’s likely that your kids will do something to celebrate it. So make this a day to have some fun! Consider these ideas.

• Have fun! Consider April Fool’s Day to be a holiday to teach kids appropriate ways to pull harmless pranks, be silly, and enjoy themselves. Kids who learn how to find the right balance of trickery without hurting anyone’s feelings are likely to have strong social skills.

• Talk about pacing to help your kid be an expert prankster. The best April Fool’s jokes come when people least expect them. That’s why commenting about all the snow outside when your child first wakes up (when there is not a snowflake around) works well; sleepy kids often forget that it’s April Fool’s Day.

• Expect some mishaps. Having a sense of humor that’s funny for everyone isn’t easy to develop quickly. Applaud what your child is doing well. Point out how to be funny without making anyone feel hurt or harassed.

If You Have a Toddler or Elementary School-Aged Kid:

• Teach young children how to sneak up on someone and say “boo.” Although family members will probably hear young children coming, have them pretend to get scared and enjoy a good laugh.

• Incorporate some magic tricks into April Fool’s Day. Kids love magic, and some magic tricks add a fun way to celebrate the day.

• Help your child find funny, clean jokes to tell. Try these.

• Pull small pranks that get kids laughing. Place rubber worms in between the sheets (down near where their toes go). Make meatloaf in cupcake holders and frost with mashed potatoes. Freeze raisins in ice cube trays and then claim there are bugs floating in your drinks.

• Read books about April Fool’s Day. Consider April Foolishness by Teresa Bateman, April Fool! by Karen Gray Ruelle, and April Fool’s Day by Melissa Schiller.

• Fake your kids out with a special April Fool’s Day breakfast. Try “Fakin’ and Eggs” from Family Fun Magazine.

If You Have a Tween or Teen:

• You may not like the pranks kids pull on you at this age, but they enjoy pulling them on each other. Don’t be surprised if they switch the salt with the sugar or put plastic wrap under the toilet seat.

• Make sure that the way your children celebrate April Fool’s Day doesn’t go too far out of bounds. Kids at this age like to push the limits. Be aware that some kids are more tolerant of how others push the limits as well.

• Don’t be surprised if your child thinks April Fool’s Day is a stupid holiday and refuses to play along. That’s okay too. Follow your child’s lead.

• Want to avoid getting fooled? Some older teenagers like to play with language as a way to trick people. For example, some teenagers like to tell guys that their zipper is up. Most guys will look down, not catching what the person said ; )

• You often can catch your older teenager by surprise with a farce that gets their hearts beating faster, such as Mom saying she’s pregnant, or Dad announcing the family is moving to remote part of Wyoming next month, or that you’re selling the family van to buy a motorcycle. If you keep a serious face, you can often fool an older teenager for quite a while. (But watch out: next year, your teenager will have a good one for you.)

How do you celebrate April Fool’s Day?

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Teens Take a Stand Against Bullying

Two young teenagers, Michael and Marisa sing out against bullying in this wonderful song, “The Same”.  I was so touched when I saw this on Youtube, it is truly inspirational.  I can see the promise and hope for our future when teens like this come forward and lead the way with the true anti-bullying spirit, “Yin Spirit”, sharing the heart of our humanity with the world.

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