Category: Academic

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Seizing Teachable Moments

    We’ve started a new weekly series on Facebook about Teachable Moments, those precious opportunities when a child says something that opens the door to inquiry and education. Check out www.facebook.com/parentingsafechildren

  • “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”

     — Martin Luther King, Jr.

  • Making Noise for Kids in 2013

    In the child sexual abuse prevention community, the story that rocked 2012 came out of Penn State. On this university campus, home to the legendary Nittany Lions, we witnessed the profound failure of an institution and its highest and most visible leaders to protect children. And while this story broke in the press and played…