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

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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.

After the encouraging response to Some Secrets Should Never Be Kept, she realised there was a need to further build upon the idea of children not keeping secrets about unsafe touch. 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. This book is all about empowering and teaching children about personal body safety, feelings, safe and unsafe touch, private parts, consent, and respectful relationships.Through age-appropriate illustrations and engaging text this book, written by the author of ‘No Means No! Since that time, she has authored and produced numerous award-winning titles for the educational publishing industry. This book provides everything a child needs to know to help keep them safe from inappropriate touch. It is a useful book that will help parents to start teaching their child the principles of body safety.

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). Also included in this book are in-depth Discussion Questions to further enhance the learning and to initiate important family conversations around body autonomy. I wish there were a better way of talking about the difference between secrets and information that’s simply private.ISBN: 9781925089264 Author: Sanders, Jayneen Publisher: Educate2empower Publishing Publication Date: 1st July 2016 Imprint: Educate2empower Publishing Cover: Paperback Dewey: 362. The crucial skills taught in this book will help children to protect their bodies from inappropriate touch.

My son’s curiosity about who has what body parts naturally flowed into a conversation about consent and what should be kept private. I have a three year old that always picks up this book for me to read to him, and he goes “my body, what I say goes”!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.