PROTECTIVE OFFENSE TIP! Non-Lethal Self Defense Options
If you have kids with you and someone attacks you, I'm all for the lethal options. Save yourself and children, worry about the consequences later. Stay alive.For any and all other situations here are...
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Secure You're Home: Pre-Vacation Checklist
This article of mine was just published (8/15/12) by MetroMoms Network. I originally called it Sun, Sand & Self Defense, but the title they gave it makes more sense. Hope it enhances your late...
View ArticleThe Perfect Crime?
On a small Gypsy bus a few days ago I watched something unravel that I ultimately labeled as a brilliant scam.When I climbed aboard a woman with a young daughter was shouting at the driver. My first...
View ArticlePROTECTIVE OFFENSE TIP: How to Choose a Personal Safety Weapon
I've been seeing new women's self defense product sites popping up all over. They advertise pink tasers and lip stick pepper sprays created, packaged and marketed specifically for women. Do these sites...
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A Frankenstorm Warning (or One Gallon, Per Person, Per Day)
There are tons of survival websites with information on procuring supplies and battening down the hatches so I don't usually write about those issues. But in talking to people in my neighborhood, I was...
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The Fifth Necessity of Storm Preparation
(Sequel to: A Frankenstorm Warning, or One Gallon, Per Person, Per Day)There are four generally understood survival necessities: Water, Fire, Shelter, Food. Food is often last since most humans can...
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Is My Family Prepared for Another Sandy?
(Final Installment of: A Frankenstorm Warning, or One Gallon, Per Person, Per Day)A lot of emergency preparation is about imagination. We have this vision of a disaster being all encompassing, but more...
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Healthy Eating as Self Defense: 5 Food Defense Tactics!
Preserving your health is a primary self defense technique! As many found during the recent storm, the healthier you are the more quickly you can make decisions and act on them. If you don't do it for...
View ArticleAn Exercise in Minimalism: On Working Out and Time Constraints
For parents with little or no time to themselves, fitting in a workout is often a really low priority. We are busier than ever, gaining weight, losing strength and spending too much time feeling...
View ArticleOn Friday's Massacre at Sandyhook Elementary School
Various Postings from the Mommy And Me Self Defense Facebook Page:There is a policeman posted outside my son's school today... What if there were safe rooms inside schools? Expensive? Maybe. But I bet...
View ArticleIn An Emergency, How Ready Are You?
The recent storms and subsequent damage after Hurricane Sandy are a strong reminder that having a solid plan BEFORE a disaster strikes or an emergency occurs is critical. In an emergency, how ready are...
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Us or Them? - How Circumstances Influence Who We Become
Where does the "Us" or "Them" mentality originate? Naturally there's an evolutionary predisposition to put the needs, ideas and rules or your group first so that you band together, feed and protect...
View ArticleQuote of the Month
“To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition.” — Jawaharlal Nehru Have you done your moral workout today? :)
View ArticleCannibal Cop: What Nightmares Are Made Of
I posted about this a while back and it's just coming to court now. I don't normally post the ugly stuff but this is just one of those really bizaar cases that bares further study on many levels. For...
View ArticleThe VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN ACT
This week the House of Representatives will be voting on the reauthorization of the VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN ACT (VAWA). An alternate version of the bill has just been introduced that falls short of our...
View ArticleTED Tip - On Being Wrong
Perhaps one of the most important yet invisible techniques of self defense (protective offense) is understanding the ins and outs of your own powers of perception and learning to trust your instincts....
View ArticleWeekly Tip: Car Talk!
Get into the very simple habit of locking your car door as soon as you get in and politely asking riders to do the same. Not a minute later or after you put your seat belt on - sit, shut the door, lock...
View ArticleDisability Predators
Erik Kondo of Not-Me.org strikes again for Women's Self Defense. Erik Created a Causes.com site to warn women with disabilities about online predators. Today he wrote:"Less than two years ago, a 15...
View ArticleDance Club Danger
Here'a a good example of what happens when you don't have any idea about a predators day at the office. Only by understanding can we integrate common sense into our lives and pass it on to our...
View ArticleWeekly Tip: "Exit Stage Left"
Practice finding exits with your kids. Every time you go into a building - theater, store, museum - practice finding the exits in every room. It's a great habit to cultivate. In the event of a black...
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