My Body! What I Say Goes!: Teach children body safety, safe/unsafe touch, private parts, secrets/surprises, consent, respect

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She started her teaching career in the 1980s as an elementary school teacher in rural Queensland, Australia.

So, if you’re looking for a book that can help you have important conversations with your kids about love, sex, relationships, and growing up, I highly recommend My Body, What I Say Goes by Janine Sanders. Parents, caregivers, and educators have a duty of care to protect children by teaching them Body Safety skills. It's imperative to teach our children how to look after themselves when we aren't around and this book explains things in a way they can grasp. It aims to educate using a good choice of words can help parents whilst teaching their children about their "private parts" and can be used as a guide and a fun learning/reading experience. Potatohead might have male and female voices in Toy Story, but they are still toys and still don’t have a penis or vagina.

My wife and I were looking for a book to teach our child about personal space, privacy, and her adult support network. My 7 year old and I had a lot of discussions about the safety network and being uncomfortable that were bridged using this book. The children's picture book aims to empower and teach children about personal body safety, feelings, safe and unsafe touch, private parts, secrets and surprises, consent and respect. It also explores safe and unsafe feelings, early warning signs, a safety network, the correct names for private parts, safe and unsafe touch, and the difference between secrets and surprises.

If I were to read this with a child i would omit girl/boy and replace with child or "some bodies" when they talk about "private parts.

The book mentions that boys usually have a penis, testicles, and a bottom, but I personally prefer to include nipples too, as they are part of the body and can be important to discuss as kids grow older. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Jay is also an accomplished children's book author, writing a number of titles for such literacy series as ZigZags, Totally Kidz, Deadly and Incredible, and a children's picture book series for Penguin. This book not only encourages healthy communication between you and your child (there’s little question for you to ask them throughout the book) it provides them with the most important tools to set them up for life.

It also provides clear steps to take if someone does touch their private parts or wants to see them. Jay then went on to develop and publish a comprehensive Body Safety and Respectful Relationship Teacher's Resource Kit as well as writing several more children's books on the topics of Body Safety, consent, respect, body boundaries and gender equality. I love how simply the author explains hard to talk about situations in a way that kids can understand. It’s crucial for kids to recognize and express their emotions, especially when it comes to feeling safe or unsafe. The book also introduces the concept of a safety network, which consists of five people that children can talk to if they’re feeling worried or unsafe.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. 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.