Chang’s Taekwondo Mission

Hello everyone! We are so excited to see you all this week! We are opening from Today. For the online students, please check your email. Please ask us if you have any questions!

So good to be back in the Studio!

Hello everyone! We have exciting news for students from Chang’s Taekwondo Martial Arts in South Surrey, Cloverdale, Tsawwassen, Aldergrove and Mission: We may b...e opening as early as June 1st! We’re excited to get back to physical training, this has been the longest spring break ever! Returning to training, and also daycare and childcare facilities brings kids and students together once again. There are good interactions and bad interactions amongst young people. We have to chat about how to react to bad situations with the best attitude. Let’s first establish that we want our kids and students to grow. We want our kids to learn how to interact with other kids when we may not be present. There is a difference between common aggressive behaviour amongst young people learning to control their emotions.. and then there is bullying. These days it seems between the helicopter parent and the overuse of the label ‘bully’ have attributed to a large overreaction to aggressive behaviour. We want to establish that Bullying is where someone hurts another on purpose. Either with words, or physically. Aggressive behaviour amongst young people is normal, they are learning to control their emotions... and turn to aggressive action because they feel they have no other way to communicate how they feel. We want to make sure we’re not overreacting and putting more pressure on our teachers and principals. We also don’t want to teach our kids that we will step in to defend them, even when it is unnecessary! Your Taekwondo instructors give the kids a great toolbox for dealing with these kinds of things. From the hands up, communication of how their feeling (Stop I don’t like it when you...), and then various non-hurtful self defence will leave your child and student more capable than ever to defend themselves independently!

Who is next? Lets train!