My Body! What I Say Goes! Kiah's Edition Activity Book Bundle

This bundle consists of:

• My Body! What I Say Goes! Kiah's Edition Picture Book,
• My Body! What I Say Goes! Kiah's Edition Activity Book

The children's Picture Book aims to empower and teach children them 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. Reader's notes and discussion questions are included. Ages 3 to 9 years.

The Activity Book reinforces the critical messages, ensuring the child gains maximum benefit from the learning contained in the picture book.

Please note: The activity book is only available in soft cover.

Kiah's Edition is the Indigenous version of the best selling title My Body! What I Say Goes!. This book will help children to protect their bodies from inappropriate touch through age-appropriate body safety skills. Illustrated by awarding-winning Indigenous artist Jasmine Seymour and piloted with First Nations students, children will be empowered to say in a strong and clear voice, "This is my body! What I say goes!" Through culturally-appropriate illustrations and engaging text, this book (written by the author of Let's Talk About Body Boundaries, Consent & Respect, No Means No! and Some Secrets Should Never Be Kept) will teach children the following crucial 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 safe and unsafe touch
• understanding the difference between secrets and surprises
• respecting body boundaries.

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. Also included in this book are in-depth Discussion Questions to further enhance the learning and to initiate important family conversations around body autonomy.