Spotting Danger Before It Spots Your TEENS: Teaching Situational Awareness To Keep Teenagers Safe
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 (ages 13 - 19) 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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Spotting Danger Before It Spots Your TEENS: Teaching Situational Awareness To Keep Teenagers Safe
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 (ages 13 - 19) 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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Spotting Danger Before It Spots Your TEENS: Teaching Situational Awareness To Keep Teenagers Safe

Spotting Danger Before It Spots Your TEENS: Teaching Situational Awareness To Keep Teenagers Safe

Spotting Danger Before It Spots Your TEENS: Teaching Situational Awareness To Keep Teenagers Safe

Spotting Danger Before It Spots Your TEENS: Teaching Situational Awareness To Keep Teenagers Safe

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Overview

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 (ages 13 - 19) 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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781594398681
Publisher: YMAA Publication Center
Publication date: 04/01/2022
Series: Head's Up
Pages: 182
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

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

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