Smart Choices goes to Vegas!

I am so excited to announce that Smart Choices was in USCCA's magazine called Concealed Carry. We made it into their BIG January 2022 edition called THE PREDATOR PROJECT that launched in VEGAS at SHOT SHOW this year! 

SHOT SHOW is the largest trade show of its kind. The Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trade ShowSM (SHOT Show®) is the largest and most comprehensive trade show for all professionals involved with the shooting sports, hunting and law enforcement industries. It is the world’s premier exposition of combined firearms, ammunition, law enforcement, cutlery, outdoor apparel, optics and related products and services. The SHOT Show attracts buyers from all 50 states and more than 100 countries. SHOT Show is the only event for retailers, wholesalers and distributors that brings the industry’s most innovative technology, products, manufacturers, education and regulatory leadership together to create one comprehensive and fully loaded experience. You’ll find the people, the passion and the answers you need to stay successful, competitive and knowledgeable. The SHOT Show is restricted to members of the shooting, hunting, military and outdoor trade industry including commercial buyers and sellers of military, law enforcement and tactical products. It is a trade show not open to the general public. 

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Smart Choices is a well thought out deck of 84 Image Cards that focuses on IMAGES that will help parents/teachers/educators teach children to recognize danger and to make smart choices ahead of time. Smart Choices will aid in having a plan for the whole family so you AND your child will know what to do when presented with some difficult decisions.

Smart Choices Image Cards was designed to focus on your child processing primarily in pictures rather than words, so ideas are interconnected, and your child can see the relationship between elements (verbal discussion plus visual learning) in the whole.

Here are just a few advantages of this style of IMAGE BASED  learning:

• Pictures appeal to curious young minds
• Respond to visual information FASTER
• Most effective way to make sure your conversations get stored as a long-term memory
• Communication between you and your child can be quicker and even deeper
• Grasps concepts easily by stimulating imagination
• Smart Choices Image Cards will help your child CONNECT your  previous conversations and our images with REAL LIFE situations. We are working as a team to set them up for success,  find the SMART CHOICE "file" that relates to the situation, act on it and get home safely.​

​Smart Choices is not about dumping knowledge into your child’s brain; it is about carrying on a conversation with them. WE SUPPLY THE IMAGE AND YOU SUPPLY THE SUBJECT MATTER, with plenty of "helpful hints" from us.

The powerful images on the front of these cards plus the "helpful hints" on the back provoke incredibly important two-way conversations with our children, our grandchildren, our students, and our small groups around potentially dangerous situations and how to maneuver around them.

Having already talked though the dangers that each card elicits puts our kids in a position of preparedness, where they can draw on knowledge from a past experience, or in this case, a past card conversation. They know what to do!

We recommend picking one age appropriate card to discuss with your child about every 2-4 weeks. That could breakdown to 48 - 84 months of deep and meaningful conversations.

Smart Choices Image Cards are meant to be revisited as your child grows so you can test what they remember and continue to instill your parenting lessons throughout the years. 

​Smart Choices supply 84 two-sided Image Cards:

• Our 3.5"x5.75" Smart Choices Image Cards are made of high quality card stock, visually stimulating and the perfect size. Our cards are made to last so as your child grows, new Image Cards can introduced, no matter when you purchased them. Some parents LAMINATE their Smart Choices Image Cards so they "stand the test of time" can hold up to be revisited over and over again through the years.
• The Image Cards break down to roughly $.83 - $1.18 per card and that does not include any other materials or the FREE shipping.
• On the front will be an image that your child will see.
• On the back will be a few "Helpful Hints" to help parents through their first discussions. These are just "hints" because the conversations with your children will most likely be through YOUR imagination, research and experiences.​

​ANYONE can get involved!

• Parents/Guardians/Family
• Homeschooling
• Clubs/Groups
• Teachers/Educators/Tutors
• Special needs teaching "Outside the box" for children and adults with learning disabilities
• Counselors
• Martial Arts Instructors/Coaches
• You name it!

Parents/guardians know their children best and "how to speak their child's language". Each parent has their own rules and teaching style so we are focusing on setting you up for success to help your child learn while you supply the "meat and potatoes" for each image.

I don't know about you guys but it sounds like a match made in heaven. Thank you USCCA for including Smart Choices Image Cards and finding value in our learning system. 
Shelley Luehder Hill

*Some information was copied directly from UCSSA and SHOT SHOW's website