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Kids face so many challenges today that it is easy to forget how daunting life can seem to a child trying to find his/her own way in today’s frequently bizarre world. With tremendous peer pressure, the relentless influence of the media, school and parents all offering opinions on how to be and how to act, today’s youth are bombarded with dozens of conflicting ideas and often just get stuck.

Street Smart Kids is stepping up to the challenge of slowing things down a little, to help educate kids to understand how things usually work in the big wide world. Kids will learn some of the skills required to not only face up to, but to understand and work around the rules and regulations of our multi-faceted society. Understanding why there are rules, from a practical point of view, is a good place to start, empowering objective decision making by using simple logic, leading in turn to a better understanding of “WHY”.

Any or all of these important subjects below can be incorporated into our programs in their various forms. We provide an entertaining, thought provoking and most importantly, life cultivating series of ‘not to be missed’ presentations. Please contact us today to discuss the available opportunities to help our kids avoid a few of life’s hard knocks.

Family
A parent’s role and responsibilities
Being a parent-changing diapers
Parents are people too….some try
Love versus like
Double standards for boys and girls
Being a kid
A kid’s role and responsibilities, yes responsibilities!
Do the best you can


Self Control
Accountability
Reliability or flake-ability
Habits
Too much of a good thing
Balance-pacing yourself
Putting others down-gossip
Bullying-what it means
Obsession
Stress-red lining
Money does not buy class


Health
Lucky to be healthy
The body and its machine-fuel requirements
Caring for our bodies-hardware
Caring for our minds-software
Personal hygiene
Washing your hands
Brushing your teeth
Medicine
Influences
Creating your life story
How long will you live?
Media – making money from kids making bad choices
Giving without expectations
Racism
If you think you can…
People are treated as objects
Shaking hands
Being born athletic
Drugs, alcohol, gambling, eating, spending…
Tattoos


Your World
The end…what’s yours going to look like?
Where you live in the world-the community
Good looks, blessing or curse
Trust-Love
Your comfort zone-belonging to a small group
Learn bad… learn good!
Quality of friends
Impressing your friends-Peer pressure
I can’t vs. I don’t want to
Independence
Do what you say you are going to do
Honesty and integrity
Taking things for granted
Immigrant parents
Procrastination
We are all 3 people
First impressions
Others are worse off
Assumptions from credentials…life is not fair
Hating work and chores
Sleeping well at night


Opportunity
Loans/Borrowing
Adult content and immaturity
Future leaders/Role models
Luck, where preparation meets opportunity
Respecting elders
Divorce-learn from it
Lucky breaks


Logic
If only I knew then…
Taking the easy way out
Being clever vs. smart vs. intelligent
Risks vs. Reward vs. Consequences
Relationships - want a good friend, be a good friend
Do unto others
Education’s edge-lottery ticket
Objectivity: who really runs the show
Put things back where you find them
Playing Russian Roulette
Win-win
Watching people
Having what others have vs. having what they don’t want
Organization-leaves time for other things
The strong prey on the weak
Safety in the kitchen and bathroom

Smarts
Body language-reaction
Successful people do the things
Ignoring important information-Signs-what they really mean
Turning bad situations into something good
Managing your self vs. being managed
Admit it when you are wrong or have messed up
Patience
Who’s number one? The greatest love of all!
One step at a time
Never give up!
Saving today!
Reputation, easy to lose hard to earn
Solve your own problems
If you think education is expensive…try ignorance


Character
Humor at others expense
Tolerance
Being selfish
Sincerity
Punctuality-being late
Manners-are they worthwhile
Destroying public property
Public bathrooms
Spitting in public


























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