Category: Feather Berkower

  • I Invited the Flight Attendant onto My Prevention Team

    By Feather Berkower Feather Berkower, FounderParenting Safe Children My ten-year-old niece was visiting me from out of state and was flying back home to Florida by herself for her first unaccompanied flight. She was relaxed and excited about it, and I was excited for her but also felt I needed to do my due diligence…

  • 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 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…

  • My Heart Was Pounding

    By Genevieve, Colorado Mom“When I attended the Parenting Safe Children workshop, the idea of screening caregivers, coaches, teachers, etc. around sexual abuse was very intimidating. My husband and I promised ourselves, however, that no matter how uncomfortable it was, we were going to talk with everyone about our daughter’s body safety.The first time I screened…

  • You Asked for It!

    Every spring, Parenting Safe Children introduces a new tool or campaign to help prevent child sexual abuse. I’m particularly excited about this new tool because you asked for it and you helped create it.You told me you wanted additional support in having conversations with caregivers about your children’s body safety and boundaries. And now I’m…

  • Special Message for Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Month

    April is Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Month. In honor of the children in our lives, I call upon your courage and action.First, to all of the people out there who still believe that child sexual abuse doesn’t and won’t happen in their community, I urge you to acknowledge the irrefutable facts that approximately one in…