7 Body Safety Rules: Written Specifically For Kids With Disability
Rule 1: Asking for Consent Ensure all people who interact with your child ask for their consent before entering their body boundary. Ensure you child knows that a body boundary is the invisible space around their body (and wheelchair). It is their personal space — a space just for them....
7 Body Safety Rules: Written Specifically For Kids With Disability
Rule 1: Asking for Consent Ensure all people who interact with your child ask for their consent before entering their body boundary. Ensure you child knows that a body boundary is the invisible space around their body (and wheelchair). It is their personal space — a space just for them....
Questions to ask your child’s child-care centre and school.
We all want to keep our kids safe especially when they are being cared for by others. Below is a checklist of questions you can ask of your child-care providers and schools. Please ask these questions because as caring, safe adults we need to be our children’s voices in these...
Questions to ask your child’s child-care centre and school.
We all want to keep our kids safe especially when they are being cared for by others. Below is a checklist of questions you can ask of your child-care providers and schools. Please ask these questions because as caring, safe adults we need to be our children’s voices in these...
Helpful Parent/Carer Script Explaining Why A Child's 'No' May Not Be Appropriate
Something we hear time and time again (especially from parents of toddlers) are comments and questions such as, "I love that my child is empowered to say NO and that they understand they have a body boundary. But now they are saying NO to everything! How do I get them...
Helpful Parent/Carer Script Explaining Why A Child's 'No' May Not Be Appropriate
Something we hear time and time again (especially from parents of toddlers) are comments and questions such as, "I love that my child is empowered to say NO and that they understand they have a body boundary. But now they are saying NO to everything! How do I get them...
IMPORTANT FIRST TIPS FOR KEEPING KIDS SAFE IN A DIGITAL WORLD
We are hearing more and more stories and sadly evidence of children viewing pornography, being preyed upon and becoming victims to online sexual abuse and sexploitation. As most children have easy access to Smartphones (either their own or friends), I’m afraid this problem will not being going away. It is...
IMPORTANT FIRST TIPS FOR KEEPING KIDS SAFE IN A DIGITAL WORLD
We are hearing more and more stories and sadly evidence of children viewing pornography, being preyed upon and becoming victims to online sexual abuse and sexploitation. As most children have easy access to Smartphones (either their own or friends), I’m afraid this problem will not being going away. It is...
Every Question You Asked About ... Body Safety And Consent
When should I start teaching body safety and consent? Take a look at our ‘When to Begin Consent and Body Safety Conversations’ poster. It has all the information you need and it’s free to download! Will my child learn about sexual abuse if they are taught body safety? No! They will...
Every Question You Asked About ... Body Safety And Consent
When should I start teaching body safety and consent? Take a look at our ‘When to Begin Consent and Body Safety Conversations’ poster. It has all the information you need and it’s free to download! Will my child learn about sexual abuse if they are taught body safety? No! They will...
Unpacking Gender Stereotyping Language With Kids
As your child grows, they will begin to interact with the community around them. Other’s values, ideas and opinions will infiltrate your family. This can be positive, but it can also be negative. You may be bringing up your little person to value all people in an inclusive and kind...
Unpacking Gender Stereotyping Language With Kids
As your child grows, they will begin to interact with the community around them. Other’s values, ideas and opinions will infiltrate your family. This can be positive, but it can also be negative. You may be bringing up your little person to value all people in an inclusive and kind...
A Teenager’s Personal Story – for those who think they are alone
*TRIGGER WARNING* A Teenager’s Personal Story – for those who think they are alone Life, a crazy phenomenon. No one knows what’s going to happen when you are first born; all people know is that they care about you, a tiny-toed human. How do you grasp life? Because at 15...
A Teenager’s Personal Story – for those who think they are alone
*TRIGGER WARNING* A Teenager’s Personal Story – for those who think they are alone Life, a crazy phenomenon. No one knows what’s going to happen when you are first born; all people know is that they care about you, a tiny-toed human. How do you grasp life? Because at 15...
Social Stories
Social Stories are an excellent tool to help kids prepare, understand and practice new situations or events that they may be concerned about. Social Stories were first introduced by Carol Gray in 1991 and are often used with children who have autism. That being said, Social Stories are widely used...
Social Stories
Social Stories are an excellent tool to help kids prepare, understand and practice new situations or events that they may be concerned about. Social Stories were first introduced by Carol Gray in 1991 and are often used with children who have autism. That being said, Social Stories are widely used...
Keeping Our Kids Safe During the Holiday Season
The holiday season is upon us, and our kids are about to spend A LOT of time around people who they may not have seen for a long time due to Covid 19 restrictions — family, extended family, friends, friends of friends, acquaintances, and total strangers. They will be in...
Keeping Our Kids Safe During the Holiday Season
The holiday season is upon us, and our kids are about to spend A LOT of time around people who they may not have seen for a long time due to Covid 19 restrictions — family, extended family, friends, friends of friends, acquaintances, and total strangers. They will be in...
When to Begin Consent and Body Safety Conversations
We regularly get asked by parents and carers. “When should I start teaching my child about consent and body safety?” It’s an excellent question. Below is an approximate guide on when to begin conversations with your child around consent and Body Safety. All children are different, and you know your...
When to Begin Consent and Body Safety Conversations
We regularly get asked by parents and carers. “When should I start teaching my child about consent and body safety?” It’s an excellent question. Below is an approximate guide on when to begin conversations with your child around consent and Body Safety. All children are different, and you know your...
How adults show children love appropriately and safely
What still remains vivid in my mind, 12 years after starting my work in the prevention of childhood sexual abuse, were two things that I heard time and time again from survivors. He said to me, ‘This is our little secret — others won’t understand. This is how you show...
How adults show children love appropriately and safely
What still remains vivid in my mind, 12 years after starting my work in the prevention of childhood sexual abuse, were two things that I heard time and time again from survivors. He said to me, ‘This is our little secret — others won’t understand. This is how you show...
DIARY OF A WOMAN
I wrote this piece really for men, knowing that most likely, only women will read it. If men read it, they might realise what it's like for us, day to day. To be in our shoes. Not only do women have to cope with the majority of domestic work, pay...
DIARY OF A WOMAN
I wrote this piece really for men, knowing that most likely, only women will read it. If men read it, they might realise what it's like for us, day to day. To be in our shoes. Not only do women have to cope with the majority of domestic work, pay...