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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.

  • When Children Play – a Teachable Moment

    When Children Play – a Teachable Moment

    You’ve just eaten a big meal and the children, of all different ages, are restless. They want to go play while the adults linger over coffee. What kind of supervision is required to ensure everyone’s safety?Children can get into scenarios while playing which can be compromising. Remind kids to keep the doors open and review…

  • Air Travel for the Holidays – Teachable Moment

    Whether you are traveling over the holidays or sometime in 2017, here are some body-safety conversation tips for talking with your children about airport security, x-ray machines, and pat downs. Talk with children about airport and airplane rules. With young children (< age 8), have this conversation on the way to the airport. With older…

  • What Does Consent Look Like at Different Ages?

    Learning about boundaries and consent is a process that takes place over many years. Here’s what it looks like at different ages.Toddler: In the words of a two-year-old child, whose mother has been teaching body-safety concepts for over a year, “My vagina is mine!”Toddler to Tween:Mom to her Mother: “I know you love to hug…

  • Talking with Children, Teens and Caregivers about Consent

    Learning about boundaries and consent is a process that takes place over many years. By starting the conversation early, your children have more time to internalize body-safety rules and practice setting boundaries. And likewise, by talking with caregivers and family members about boundaries, you can model for your child, and the adults in their lives,…

  • Winning Gold

    I find it unacceptable that USA Gymnastics, the sole national governing body for gymnastics in the US with 3,000 gyms, regularly fails to report allegations of child sexual abuse to authorities. This is yet another example of reckless policy making, individual irresponsibility, and institutional failure on behalf of children. Everything we know about child sexual…

  • Back to School 2016

    This is your annual reminder to invite your day care or school personnel onto your prevention team by discussing your children’s body-safety rules with teachers, paraprofessionals, administration, and classroom volunteers.  Download the free Parenting Safe Children Back-to-School Screening Packet and have a conversation with your day care or school staff. The packet is also useful…