“Teaching Kids Accountability: Why We Don’t Sugarcoat in Jiu-Jitsu”

Took a call from a parent in our 3-4 year old Jiu-Jitsu program. ☎

They’ve been enrolled for less than a month.

She complained that one of our coaches told her 4 year old som he was being “bad.”

Mom: “We don’t use that language at home.”

🦊: First thought…..was he being bad? 😂

🦊: “Thanks for calling. Did you happen to talk to anybody in person about this?”

Mom: “Um no. He just told me at home…..’Mama Im bad.🏠 “

Listen fam, I have a VERY unpopular opinion. 🤔

SHAME is a valuable teaching tool. 👌

The lie being propagated that “You don’t wanna harm your child’s self esteem by calling them bad.” 🙄

Is complete and total malarkey. 💩

If you’re being told to do “X” by an authority figure, and you proceed to do “Y”…….you are disobeying and by DEFINITION are being bad.

Don’t wanna be called “Bad”? Then change your behavior. 🤷🏻‍♂

Novel concept. 😏

Fast forward 👉 I smoothed the situation over with mom……

But the more I have these convos with parents, the more I realize just how much of a necessity our Jiu-Jitsu program is.

See you on the mat,

Written by Coach David Fox