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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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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