Gary Dean Quesenberry

Spotting Danger Before It Spots Your TEENS (eBook, ePUB)

Teaching Situational Awareness To Keep Teenagers Safe

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

As adults, we like to think we have a good idea of what the world may have in store for our teenagers, but the fact of the matter is there's a vast divide between what we perceive as dangerous and what our teens are actually up against.

Teenagers face unique challenges when it comes to situational awareness.

These challenges are only exacerbated by the constant physical and biological changes teens are subjected to. As young people learn to deal with these changes, they begin to explore the limits of their individuality.

Unfortunately, this process often involves rebellious behavior and unnecessary risk-taking. The key to keeping teens safe during this time is to keep them alert and engaged with their environment.

Teenagers have to understand that real personal safety isn't about being scared of what lies around the next corner. It requires confidence that if something bad were about to happen, that they have these skills:

• Ability to identify the problem early
• Competence to develop a plan of action
• Power to control their fear
• Aptitude to implement that plan

Spotting Danger Before It Spots Your Teens is designed around the principles of positive communication, trust, and teamwork. It's written specifically to set parents' minds at ease and allow teens to confidently explore their independence, secure in the fact that they can spot dangerous situations before they happen and take the necessary steps to ensure their own well-being.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: YMAA Publication Center
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781594398698
• Artikelnr.: 62256742

Autorenporträt

Gary Quesenberry is a US Army veteran and a career Federal Air Marshal. As a defensive tactics trainer for Federal and civilian services, he has devoted his life to studying the areas of violence and predatory behavior. Gary serves as the CEO of Quesenberry Personal Defense Training and has developed numerous basic and advanced level training courses focused on mental toughness, marksmanship, and defensive tactics. As a competitive pistol shooter, Gary has been featured on the History Channel's hit television series Top Shot - Season 3 and Top Shot All-Stars. He has an extensive background in domestic and foreign counter-terror training and has worked in both the private and corporate sectors to help educate others on the importance of situational awareness, and personal safety. Gary resides in Hillsville, Virginia.

Inhaltsangabe

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
FOREWORD
INTRODUCTION
 
PHASE ONE: The parent's guide to teens and situational awareness
Chapter 1: Awareness basics
1.1 How predators choose their victims
1.2 The fundamentals of situational awareness
Teens in action: Chris Ericks saves his South Dakota classmates from
tragedy
Practical exercise: The pre-departure checklist
Key points
 
Chapter 2: Navigating the Teenage mind
2.1 Identity development
2.2 Rebellion and risk-taking
2.3 Attention span
2.4 Groupthink
Teens in action: New Jersey teens save children from frozen pond
Practical exercise: Setting your rules and limits
Key points
 
Chapter 3: Developing a situational awareness program that teens can live
with
3.1 Learn how people should act
3.2 Learn to read the environment
3.3 Identify problems
3.4 Listen to intuition
3.5 Know your options
3.6 Reinforcement through visualization
Teens in action: Devin Washington stops a robbery during his job interview
Practical exercise: Counting drills
Key points
 
PHASE TWO: Applying situational awareness to the teenage lifestyle
Chapter 4: Understanding the risks that teens face
4.1 Online safety
4.2 School violence
4.3 Exploitation
Teens in action: Teen who helps stop school shooting becomes a Marine
Practical exercise: The school interview
Key points
 
Chapter 5: Pre-drivers license teens
5.1 Home alone
5.2 Malls, movies, and parks
5.3 Sleepovers
5.4 School trips
5.5 Team sports
Teens in action: Teen wrestling champ Canaan Bower stops a kidnapping
Practical exercise: Six steps to spotting trouble
Key points
 
Chapter 6: Teens on the move
6.1 Drivers safety
6.2 Parties
6.3 Dating
Teens in action: Olivia Jones causes a car accident to save a life
Practical exercise: Are you being followed?
Key points
 
PHASE THREE: Working together toward responsible independence
Chapter 7: Responsibility
Teens in action: Thirteen-year-old Kaleb saves his friend from drowning at
a pool party
Practical exercise: The four corners game
Key points
 
Chapter 8: Accountability
Teens in action: 16-year-old girl fights off attacker
Practical exercise: The eyewitness test
Key points
 
Chapter 9: Communication
Teens in action: High school freshman called hero for saving bus driver and
classmates
Practical exercise: The self-assessment for teens
Key points
 
Chapter 10: Teamwork
Teens in action: Grace Henerey saves her friend
Practical exercise: Route planning
Key points
 
CONCLUSION
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX