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Welcome to The PSC Blog, which features practical advice, prevention stories, and best practices on keeping your children safe from child sexual abuse.

  • Body-Safety Rules Are NOT Enough

    April is Child Abuse Prevention month and I’ve been reflecting on what it will take to change the cultural norm of silence that allows child sexual abuse to thrive in our communities. I’d like your help. Parenting Safe Children workshop participants tell me how empowered and secure they feel after teaching their kids body-safety rules.…

  • Build Your Prevention Team – the Easy Way

    Build Your Prevention Team – the Easy Way

      “If I was handed this card before I abused, I’d probably walk right away.” Abuser in Treatment Parents are doing a great job teaching their children body-safety rules (yay!), but as I’ve said before, body-safety rules alone are not enough. Here’s why: First, when you rely solely on your child to speak up to…

  • 3 Tips for Talking with Teens About Consent

    With teens, you can have deeper conversations about consent. You can use more abstract terms like “consent” and “exploitation,” and guidelines such as “Trust your intuition” and “Set sexual boundaries.” 1.  Teen Body-Safety Rules Talk with teens about these three body-safety rules, and explore examples of coercion, manipulation, and sexting.   No one has the…

  • How to Talk with Children About Consent

    Learning about boundaries and consent is a process that takes place over many years. Here are examples of conversations you can have with your children at different ages. I’ve also included examples of how you can model consent as well. Infant: You’re sitting with a group of friends and family who are adoring your infant…

  • 5 Tips for Talking with Children about Consent

    1.  Be a model each and every day. If someone asks you to do something and you don’t want to, it’s okay to say “No.” Let’s say you’re carrying your infant to day care to pick up your Kindergartener. Another mother says, “Oh my gosh, she’s beautiful, can I hold her for just a minute?”…

  • What is Consent?

    Consent takes place when someone agrees to and gives permission to an activity by saying, “Yes.” Consent is always freely given and each party must feel like they are able to say “Yes” or “No,” and if they say “Yes,” can still stop the activity at any point. If there is not a deliberate “Yes,”…