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Title My body! what I say goes! : a book to empower and teach children about personal body safety, feelings, safe and unsafe touch, private parts, secrets and surprises, consent, and respectful relationships / by Jayneen Sanders ; illustrated by Anna Hancock.
Author Sanders, Jayneen, author.
Publisher Macclesfield, Victoria : Educate2Empower Publishing, an imprint of UpLoad Publishing Pty Ltd, 2016.
Copyright ©2016
Description 36 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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Summary "The crucial skills taught in this book will help children to protect their bodies from inappropriate touch. Children will be empowered to say in a strong and clear voice, "This is my body! What I say goes!" Through age-appropriate illustrations and engaging text this book, written by the author of '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"--amazon.com.
Audience For primary school age.
Subject Child sexual abuse -- Prevention -- Juvenile literature.
Child sexual abuse -- Reporting -- Juvenile literature.
Touch -- Juvenile literature.
Personal space -- Juvenile literature.
Individual differences -- Juvenile literature.
Respect for persons -- Juvenile literature.
Genre Picture books.
Add'l Names Hancock, Anna, illustrator.
ISBN 9781925089165
1925089169