Body Safety and Consent VALUE BUNDLE.
Body Safety and Consent VALUE BUNDLE.
Teaching children, from a young age, that they are the boss of their body and what they say goes is incredibly empowering.
Approximately 20% of girls, and 8% of boys will experience sexual abuse before their 18th 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.
The 7 books included in this bundle explore body boundaries, respect, consent, feelings and emotions, choices, recognizing bullying behaviors, and body safety. Aligned with the goals of Erin's Law, these resources empower children by teaching them how to understand and protect their body boundaries, helping them recognize unsafe situations and promoting awareness of their rights to safety and respect.
Learning these important and life-long skills are crucial in developing children's confidence and will help them to recognize their rights -- especially in regards to their body.
Titles included in bundle
Titles included in bundle
ABC of Body Safety and Consent
Explore the ABCs of Body Safety and Consent!
Let’s educate children with essential and empowering skills in body safety and consent. The 26 'key' letters and accompanying text will support children as they learn and consolidate age-appropriate, crucial and life-changing body safety and consent skills. Designed as a 'dip-in-dip-out' book, the text, the child-centred questions and the stunning illustrations will reinforce key skills such as consent, respect, body boundaries, safe and unsafe touch, early warning signs, safety network, private parts, and the difference between secrets and surprises.
Thought-provoking questions are provided on each page so children can bring their own experiences into the narrative. Further Discussion Questions to spark open and meaningful conversations are also included.
Body Safety Education
A comprehensive step-by-step guide for parents, caregivers and educators on how to protect children from sexual abuse through body safety education.
It’s an adult’s responsibility to protect children from abuse, and that means educating themselves and the children in their care with the empowering skills and knowledge of body safety. This essential guide contains simple, practical and age-appropriate skills that adults can teach children, as well as important information on how abusers groom and what to do if a child discloses.
Body safety knowledge empowers children. It goes a long way in keeping them safe from sexual abuse, and ensuring they grow up as assertive and confident teenagers and adults. There is no downside!
Let's Talk About Body Boundaries, Consent & Respect
Everyone has a body boundary and everyone’s body boundary needs to be respected.
This engaging and beautifully illustrated book will spark empowering conversations around body boundaries, consent and respect. Written in a child-friendly and easily understood manner, the text offers familiar scenarios for children to engage with and discuss.
We know that teaching young children about body boundaries, both theirs and others, is crucial to a child's growing sense of self, their confidence and how they should expect to be treated by others. Children will learn that they have a right to their own personal space but just as importantly, they need to respect another’s body boundary and ask for consent when entering their personal space.
Included are in-depth Discussion Questions for parents, caregivers and educators to further enhance the learning, and to initiate important conversations around body boundaries, consent and respect.
My Body! What I Say Goes!
Empower children with crucial skills in body safety and consent to help protect them from inappropriate touch.
With engaging illustrations and age-appropriate text, ‘My Body! What I Say Goes!’ will equip children with the knowledge and confidence to speak up if they feel unsafe.
Written by the award-winning author of ‘Let's Talk About Body Boundaries, Consent & Respect’ and ‘Some Secrets Should Never Be Kept’, this essential book will teach children the following important 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.
Throughout the text, open-ended questions are provided so children can bring their own experiences into the conversation. In-depth Discussion Questions are featured to further unpack these important skills.
This book has an accompanying 16-page Activity Book to consolidate and reinforce the learning.
Books to empower children to say in a strong and clear voice, ‘This is my body! What I say goes!’
My Body! What I Say Goes! Activity Book
This 16-page Activity Book has been designed as a companion to the children's picture book 'My Body! What I Say Goes!'. The interactive activities in this book reinforce and consolidate the crucial body safety and consent skills taught in 'My Body! What I Say Goes!' picture book.
It is available for purchase with the picture book in the My Body! What I Say Goes! Activity Book Bundle.
No Means No!
Meet an empowered little girl who knows all about body boundaries, consent and respect, and her right to say ‘No!’ when it comes to her personal space.
‘No Means No!’ endeavours to teach young children that they have a body boundary and people, young and old, need to respect this boundary and ask for consent before entering it. Using engaging illustrations which focus on familiar scenarios such as greetings, tickling games and bath time, children will come to understand that they have a voice and every right to speak up when they feel unhappy, unsafe or uncomfortable. A strong, confident voice as a young child converts to a strong, confident pre-teen, teenager and adult.
‘No Means No!’ can be used as a springboard for ongoing discussions around body autonomy and consent.
Also included a comprehensive Note to Reader and in-depth Discussion Questions for parents, caregivers and educators to further enhance the learning, and to initiate important conversations around body boundaries, consent and respect.
Some Secrets Should Never Be Kept
Meet brave little Sir Alfred. A courageous young boy who comes to understand that some secrets should never ever be kept.
‘Some Secrets Should Never Be Kept’ is a beautifully illustrated picture book that sensitively broaches the subject of safe and unsafe touch. Written as a fable, this story seeks to teach children in an age-appropriate way, what to do if they are ever touch inappropriately. A timeless tale that will empower children to speak up when they feel unsafe.
The comprehensive Note to the Reader and Discussion Questions support both the reader and the child when discussing the story.
Optional Extra: Lesson Plans for Teachers
These 18 fully developed lesson plans incorporate questions and activities based on the books in the Body Safety & Consent Value Bundle, to help you convey important and empowering life skills to your students. The content is age-appropriate and suitable for Preschool and Primary/Elementary School classes.
The Lesson Plans include: key outcomes, teaching notes, resource masters, whole class and individual activities integrated with books to make the teaching process easier for you.
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