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

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Since that time, she has authored and produced numerous award-winning titles for the educational publishing industry. by Jayneen Sanders is a book that will help parents to start talking to their young child about body safety. The book also introduces the concept of a safety network, which consists of five people that children can talk to if they’re feeling worried or unsafe. It’s crucial for kids to recognize and express their emotions, especially when it comes to feeling safe or unsafe.

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. 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.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. The book is still a valuable resource for teaching kids about body safety and promoting healthy sexuality. So, if you’re looking for a book that can help you have important conversations with your kids about love, sex, relationships, and growing up, I highly recommend My Body, What I Say Goes by Janine Sanders. 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. This book teaches children about personal body safety, feelings, safe and unsafe touch, private parts, secrets and surprises, consent, and respectful relationships.

Through age-appropriate illustrations and engaging text this book, written by the author of ‘No Means No! 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. It also covers situations that might make them feel unsafe, such as being chased by a dog or dealing with bullying.Jay then went on to develop and publish a comprehensive Body Safety and Respectful Relationship Teacher's Resource Kit as well as writing several more children's books on the topics of Body Safety, consent, respect, body boundaries and gender equality.

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.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. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. It’s important to use the correct names for these body parts, even though some people might use funny names.

A must have for every child, extremely clear and easy to get, this book allows us to talk about uncomfortable subjects and open a healthy dialogue. 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”!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. Approximately 20% of girls, and 8% of boys will experience sexual abuse before their 18th birthday (Pereda, et al, 2009).