My Body! What I Say Goes!: Teach children body safety, safe/unsafe touch, private parts, secrets/surprises, consent, respect

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It also provides clear steps to take if someone does touch their private parts or wants to see them. It’s a great resource for parents who want an easy way to talk to their kids about love, sex, relationships, and growing up. Jay is a mother of three daughters and was a school councillor at her local school for over seven years. 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.

As he’s young, I reworded parts and used examples but it was really helpful in bringing to light a tricky topic. Prevents them from suppressing their emotions and it prompts them to speak up and advocate for them selves. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. The story revolves around a character named Stevie, who learns about keeping their body safe and using their voice to speak up. The book emphasizes that no one should touch a child’s private parts and that they belong only to them.This comprehensive, empowering and age-appropriate children’s book will teach children about respect, consent and body boundaries. She started her teaching career in the 1980s as an elementary school teacher in rural Queensland, Australia.

The activity book reinforces the critical messages ensuring the child gains maximum benefit from the learning contained in the picture book. It's imperative to teach our children how to look after themselves when we aren't around and this book explains things in a way they can grasp. Wroten in a way young children will understand without being too scary or complicated, this book will help teach and guid children not only to understand these issues, but to speak up about them too. This time spent in primary schools both as a teacher and a parent inspired her to ask the question of her community: 'What are we doing in schools to protect our children from sexual interference?My 7 year old and I had a lot of discussions about the safety network and being uncomfortable that were bridged using this book. The crucial skills taught in this book will help children to protect their bodies from inappropriate touch. It also explores safe and unsafe feelings, early warning signs, a safety network, the correct names for private parts, safe and unsafe touch, and the difference between secrets and surprises. Starts with exploring the emotions and feeling and understanding the body signs of feeling uncomfortable and then on to safe ad usafe feeling. I thought that this book was very accessible and gave some very helpful strategies that are easy to implement.

This book not only encourages healthy communication between you and your child (there’s little question for you to ask them throughout the book) it provides them with the most important tools to set them up for life. Jay's ongoing passion for the safety and empowerment of children continues today with new manuscripts and free-to-download Body Safety resources always in the wings. The children's picture book aims to empower and teach children about personal body safety, feelings, safe and unsafe touch, private parts, secrets and surprises, consent and respect. This book provides everything a child needs to know to help keep them safe from inappropriate touch.Congratulations to Jayneen Sanders on another outstanding book for parents, carers, and educators to help protect kids! The teddy bear in this book and the fact that Izzy isn’t drawn overtly girly made for more interesting conversations about gender and private parts.

It aims to educate using a good choice of words can help parents whilst teaching their children about their "private parts" and can be used as a guide and a fun learning/reading experience. I like that the author includes the mouth as a private part, meaning "just for me," so that kids might recognize an abuse before it happens (she doesn't say this outright). Jay participated in Protective Behaviours professional development and attended numerous conferences on the topic to educate herself in how to keep children safe and provide them with prevention education.I work as a nanny, and so I’ve been starting to lowkey look for resources to share with parents about keeping their children safe and equipping their children with important skills. The book is still a valuable resource for teaching kids about body safety and promoting healthy sexuality. This book can help us teach them and help them to learn consent and what touch is safe and what is not okay.