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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Talking with a Youth Coach about Your Child’s Body Safety
Check out the latest screening video from Parenting Safe Children Just introduced, this video features a grandmother talking with a soccer coach about body safety in the soccer league and on the team. While watching it, you’ll see how this grandmother brings up the topic in a pro-active manner, asking multiple questions until she is…
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Talking with a Prospective Nanny about Your Child’s Body Safety
Check out the latest screening video from Parenting Safe Children! Just introduced, this video features a couple interviewing a nanny. While watching it, you’ll see how to bring up the topic of child sexual abuse prevention in a completely non-threatening way by asking several important questions about secrets and boundaries, and by focusing on your child’s…
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How is Your Child’s School Reducing the Risk of Child Sexual Abuse?
Talking with the Director Just as you would talk with the director about curriculum, teachers, meals, and play safety, it’s also important to ask about policies and practices that will help to keep your kids safe from sexual abuse. There have been far too many cases of sexual abuse in schools, to let this topic, however uncomfortable,…
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Summer Fun, Summer Safety
Pools My 7-year-old daughter, Erin, will be taking swimming lessons. How do I talk to the swim instructor about her body safety? First off, the goal of any screening is to invite caregivers onto your prevention team. It’s not an interrogation; it’s a conversation. Many parents ask me how to begin the conversation, so in…
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How to Prevent Child Sexual Abuse – Infographic
April is Child Abuse Prevention month, and this How to Prevent Child Sexual Abuse infographic from Parenting Safe Children shows you how to keep your children safe from sexual abuse. It debunks common myths, offers “must teach” body-safety rules, and gives you specific questions for screening caregivers. Do your child a favor and check it out! How…
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Body Safety & Summer Camp
Is it already time to start thinking about summer camp? Kudos to this Colorado mom for including body safety in her email exchange with a potential summer camp program. The mom wove it in with her other questions, but here’s just the portion of the exchange on child sexual abuse prevention. Mom:“Please tell me about…