For Parents
Gather your children and join Cherie for
a reading of My Body is Special and Belongs to Me!
WHAT WE DO
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Teach personal safety from a place of fun, not fear.
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Give parents tools and tips on how to keep their children safe.
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Promote raising strong, resilient, independent kids! No helicopter parenting here.
KidSafe provides children and adults with life skills, social-emotional skills which support them in making safer and smarter choices in taking care of themselves and others.
We empower children to not just survive in our society but to thrive. We do this by teaching personal safety, sexual abuse prevention, and human trafficking prevention skills to children and their grown-ups.
Know the facts
Every 9 minutes a child is a victim of sexual abuse and assault.
RAINN.org
1 in 10 children will be sexually exploited by the age of 18.
Townsend, C., & Rheingold, A.A., (2013)
of sexually abused children are abused by someone they know and trust.
Finkelhor, D. (2012)
Kidsafe Books
Preview My Body is Special and Belongs to Me, click here.
Video tips
Circle of Safe Adults
Do you know who your kids would choose as their trusted adults? Let’s ask them! Watch to see how.
Listen To Our Podcast
Cherie Benjoseph, KidSafe Cofounder interviewed by Andrea Clemens on the Andrea Speaks Out Podcast – discussing an easy and effective language of safety you can use with your children to help keep them safe.
PARENT PROGRAMS AND RESOURCES
The one gift parents can give their children during their early years is to empower them with personal safety skills. The challenge is that we were not raised talking about personal safety – we need a manual of sorts. KidSafe provides a number of options to support parents integrating a language of safety into your daily parenting, supporting you to have the tough conversations about body boundaries and secrets in a way that will not be scary for you as a parent or for your children, and activities you can do with your children to keep these conversations going and comfortable.
To learn more:
Educational Resources
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Home Alone Starter Kit
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#AskKidsafe
What are parents asking us? Scroll to read our FAQs and submit your own question below.
Q. How much detail should my child know about sex at age 5?
A. First I will answer your question with a question. What do you mean by ‘sex’? There is a lot more to ‘sex’ then the act itself. If your child shows interest in knowing about ‘sex’, you should ask a few questions to clarify what they are really asking about. It could be anything from…
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Staying home alone is a wonderful right of passage. Most of us do not remember the first time we stayed home alone unless it was fraught with disaster (from blowing something up in the microwave) or some hilarious mischief.
What we have heard from today\'s children is that many express fear of staying home alone. What is the best way to increase confidence to have a successful stay at home experience? Build up your child\'s skills.
Download our free KidSafe Home Alone Starter Kit, which provides check lists of skills kids should have, activity lists and much more.
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Sometimes we just assume that since our child is of a certain age they know certain things. Or perhaps one day they managed fine and another day not so much.
As your children get older - each year increase their participation in running the household. Start with making the bed (even if it isn\'t 100% to your liking, sorting socks for the little ones, emptying the dishwasher, clearing and cleaning a table, doing their own laundry (once this is part of your household norm you will be so thrilled). Why take the time to do this? These are skills for a life time that increase our children\'s sense of belonging to a family, self-esteem, independence, confidence. They can make mistakes while learning with supportive supervision. This way they get the message that making a mistake is not the end of the world, just part of the journey. This is building resilience.
Words Matter.
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