Description

The crucial skills taught in this book will help children to protect their bodies from inappropriate touch. Children will be empowered to say in a strong and clear voice, "This is my body What I say goes " This book, written by the author of No Means No and Some Secrets Should Never Be Kept, will teach children the following crucial and empowering skills in personal body safety:

- Identifying safe and unsafe feelings - Recognizing early warning signs - Developing a safety network - Using the correct names for private parts - Understanding the difference between safe and unsafe touch - Understanding the difference between secrets and surprises - Respecting body boundaries

Approximately 20 percent of girls and 8 percent of boys will experience sexual abuse before their eighteenth birthday (Pereda, et al, 2009). Parents, caregivers, and educators have a duty of care to protect children by teaching them Body Safety skills. These skills empower children and go a long way in keeping them safe from abuse--ensuring they grow up as assertive and confident teenagers and adults. Also included with this audiobook is a downloadable PDF of in-depth Discussion Questions to further enhance learning and to initiate important family conversations around body autonomy.