Author: Feather Berkower
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Courageous Conversations & Tips Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Month
April is Child Abuse Prevention Month. Please join me in countering our culture of silence about child sexual abuse by speaking up and having Courageous Conversations. Child sexual abuse thrives in a culture of silence and opportunity, and by not speaking up, we leave children vulnerable. In fact, offenders have told me outright that they…
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PSC Launches Parenting Safe Children ONLINE Workshop
I am thrilled to announce the Parenting Safe Children Online Workshop, so parents and families across the United States and overseas have access to my popular program for raising children with strong body pride and for building communities that are off limits to child sexual abuse. The New Online WorkshopBased on the Parenting Safe Children…
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Speaking With Your Pediatrician
by a Colorado MomI took my eight-year-old daughter to the doctor because she was having some irritation around her vagina. I talked with her ahead of time and said that the doctor may need to look at her vagina. I repeated, as I have in the past, that it’s okay because I’ll be with her…
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I am a Radical Mama
by Julia Julian, Colorado MomI am a radical mama. I teach my children they are the boss of their bodies. In our family we do not keep secrets. We talk about everything. We listen to the good, the bad, and the ugly. NO means NO. We play “What if” games. We teach the names of…
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How I Stopped a Man Who Was Grooming
By Melina Stock, Chicago MomYears before I had my own son, I was working as a nanny for a family who had three young daughters. During that time, it was discovered that a classmate of their eldest daughter, Bea, (name changed to protect her anonymity) was being sexually abused by a family member. Bea’s parents…
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A Survivor Shares …
I regularly receive emails from survivors who experience healing and empowerment from the work of Parenting Safe Children. This one came from a woman who found us on Facebook and has been reading the guest blog posts about speaking up for kids. “I have been reading the guest blog posts of Parenting Safe Children with…