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I disagree, Demiurge. First off, if you sit a kid down for the first three lessons and lecture him about respect and discipline, the kid will lose interest and never be the martial artist that he could be. If, however, you start by teaching techniques, and enforce respect and teach discipline concurrently with the techniques, then the kid stays interested AND the respect/discipline lessons sink in much better.
The trick is not to teach the kid techniques that will hurt other people until you know he HAS the discipline! Teach him stances. Teach him "blocks" which, when he is old enough and skilled enough you can tell him are really strikes applied to an attacking limb, etc.
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