Category: Child Abuse Prevention month

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Eyes, Ears, Nose – and Penis!

    By Rachel, Colorado Mom I attended your Parenting Safe Children workshop a few weekends ago. That day, I went home and played a game with my 2-year-old son. I asked him to point to his eyes (check), ears (check), chin (check), knees (check), and then his penis. He gave me a blank stare. I was…