The PSC Blog
Welcome to The PSC Blog, which features practical advice, prevention stories, and best practices on keeping your children safe from child sexual abuse.
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I Invited the Flight Attendant onto My Prevention Team
By Feather Berkower Feather Berkower, FounderParenting Safe Children My ten-year-old niece was visiting me from out of state and was flying back home to Florida by herself for her first unaccompanied flight. She was relaxed and excited about it, and I was excited for her but also felt I needed to do my due diligence…
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Playdates – Matching Expectations about Body Safety
I have used this video – Inviting Another Parent onto Your Prevention Team – in the Parenting Safe Children workshop to model how a parent might match expectations with another parent about body safety, before their kids play together.The mom initiating the conversation asks some questions, shares her child’s body-safety rules, and invites discussion. She acknowledges the…
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I am an Incest Survivor and I Speak Up. Will You?
By Marilyn Van Derbur Atler, Author, Miss America by Day I am an incest survivor. My father began coming into my room at night when I was 5. It didn’t stop until I left for college at age 18. No one knows how to stop a man like my father but we do know how…
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I Spoke Up for Kids – and Helped Heal My Past
By Annie, California AuntI took the Parenting Safe Children (PSC) workshop to learn more about keeping kids in my life safe from sexual abuse. I was surprised by all the feelings that came up about a childhood experience in which a teenager repeatedly exposed himself to me. When it happened, I was scared, felt like…
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I Invited the Camp Director onto My Prevention Team
By Natale, Colorado Mom My soon to be 10-year-old son will be attending a week long overnight camp this summer – for the first time – with a friend. While he is excited, I am of course very nervous. We have talked a lot about body safety in our house, and I feel my son…
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Standing Up for My Daughter with Grandma
By Geoff, Colorado DadA few weeks ago, my wife, my two-year-old daughter and I were at a family gathering. We had a great dinner, my daughter played with her cousins; it was a fine night. When it was time to leave, my wife and I asked our daughter to start saying goodbye to everyone. She said…