𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐞𝐩𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐝𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐠𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐬𝐚𝐟𝐞𝐭𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐤𝐢𝐝𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐳𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭.
This week, Julia and Gino talk with Adam Mitchell. Adam is dad to four kids. He has been teaching families the skills of personal protection for over 20 years at his school in New York. In 2006, he recognized a specific need that most men yearned for as Dads, but didn’t have the access or understanding to the type of training they needed to truly keep their families safe under any circumstance. As a result, he created the program ‘Close Quarter Dad’ with a goal to provide men with the knowledge they need to teach their children safety, resilience and survival.
Julia and Gino discuss with Adam on what the program is all about. We, as parents, never communicate about certain topics with our family and/or kids. These topics are not just important but are primary to learn and to have understanding about to keep a family safe and resilient in various phases and situations of life. Adam gets into the specifications of the program and contextualizes safety in different ways. And, it is not just about safety, it is about preparing our kids for difficult times by training them each day by crossing streams with them and making them cherish their small victories.
Key Moments:
00:00 Introduction
01:42 Mission and purpose of ‘Close Quarter Dad’
06:56 Acquiring skillsets and mindset to teach martial arts
09:41 Contextualizing safety
16:00 The first thing every man needs to leave, before undergoing the training, is their ego
16:50 Specifications of the Program
23:17 Starting with child-safety summit
29:39 Exposing our children to different challenges to build their resilience
32:23 Wider perspective of keeping our children safe
CLOSE QUARTER DAD IS A COMMUNITY OF MEN COMMITTED TO TEACHING THEIR CHILDREN SAFETY, CONFIDENCE AND SURVIVAL
It is a place for Dads committed to building strong kids and life-long memories together.
To know more about the program and Adam’s initiatives visit https://www.closequarterdad.com/
