| Hmmm... I'd avoid the advanced concepts, and stick with technique. Work on getting good arm/leg coordination, a good extension, good point control, and good parries. Dont worry about their minds yet. When teaching them, I suggest having them run laps before-hand, to get them sorta worn down. A hyper child is a poor child to teach. Try using comparisons (i.e. when explaining the concept of 4, 6, 7 and 8, I explained that my blade was a wall, and a roof. Above my blade was above the roof, so it was "high" and toward the outside of my blade was the outdoors, so it was "outside". Through this, I got a load of 6 years to understand the concept of lines, like high outside, or low inside) The most important thing is to communicate with them in a way they can understand. Get down on their eye level to talk to them, it'll help them understand you better. Also, have them repeat your instructions back to you.
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