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The following describes some ideals that every child needs to possess to become a happy, productive adult, and how Taekwondo helps parents help their children attain them.

Physical Fitness

Children must be taught that a fit, healthy lifestyle is the accumulation of good habits. Three components make up a healthy lifestyle: exercise, nutrition, and hygiene and grooming. Taekwondo helps parents with the exercise component and may provide assistance with the other two components. Taekwondo instructors tell children how eating healthy will make them better warriors and instructors require that children have proper hygiene and grooming while in class.

Self-Control

Children must be taught to "self-manage" their own actions. If parents do not establish boundaries, or if they establish boundaries and are not consistent in enforcing them, they make it difficult for their children to learn self-control. Children get the idea that boundaries are flexible. Taekwondo has rules of behavior that are strictly enforced. If children want to continue training and competing with their friends, they must learn to control their behavior or pay the consequences.

Focus

Taekwondo teaches children to pay attention and block out distractions. Pattern practice demands that children block out distractions and concentrate on making perfect motions. Sparring requires a student’s undivided attention at all times or they lose the match.

Respect

A disrespectful child gets no respect, so he or she turns that attitude inward and starts to see him or herself as a person who does not deserve respect. Taekwondo teaches children to be respectful at all times to everyone, and that they earn respect in the same measure that they give respect.

Confidence

Taekwondo helps children become experts at something, which then gives them more self-confidence. Everybody knows that if you are good at something, you become confident in that thing, but that confidence also spills over into other areas of a child's life.

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