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 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 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 complex society. Simple logic and objectivity will lead to a better understanding of "WHY".

Any of these important topics can be incorporated into our programs. We provide entertaining, thought provoking and most importantly, life cultivating "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
Parents are people too... some try
Love versus like
Double standards for boys and girls
A kid's role and responsibilities
Do the best you can

Self Control

Accountability
Reliability or flake-ability
Too much of a good thing
Pacing yourself
Putting others down
Bullying - what it means
Obsession
Stress
Money does not buy class

Health

Lucky to be healthy
Caring for our bodies-hardware
Caring for our minds-software
Personal hygiene
Washing your hands
Medicine
Creating your life story
Media - making money from kids making bad choices
Giving without expectations
Racism
If you think you can...
Shaking hands
Being born athletic
Drugs, alcohol, gambling, eating, spending...
Tattoos

Your World

Where you live in the world - your community
Good looks, blessing or curse  
Your comfort zone
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
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
Risks vs. Reward vs. Consequences
Relationships - want a good friend, be a good friend
Do unto others
Objectivity: who really runs the show
Put things back where you find them
Win-win
Watching people
Having what others have vs. having what they don't want
Organization
The strong prey on the weak

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
One step at a time
Never give up!
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
Sincerity
Punctuality
Public bathrooms