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Let's Talk About Body Boundaries, Consent and Respect: Teach children about body ownership, respect, feelings, choices and recognizing bullying behaviors Paperback – Nov. 10 2017

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Teaching young children about body boundaries, both theirs and others, is crucial to a child's growing sense of self, their confidence and how they should expect to be treated by others. A child growing up knowing they have a right to their own personal space, gives that child ownership and choices as to what happens to them and to their body. It is equally important a child understands, from a very young age, they need to respect another person's body boundary and ask for their consent when entering their personal space. This book explores these concepts with children in a child-friendly and easily-understood manner, providing familiar scenarios for children to engage with and discuss. It is important that the reader and the child take the time required to unpack each scenario and explore what they mean both to the character in the book, who may not be respecting someone's body boundary, and to the character who is being disrespected. It is through these vital discussions that children will learn the meaning of body boundaries, consent and respect. Learning these key social skills through such stories as 'Let's Talk About Body Boundaries, Consent and Respect' and role-modelling by significant adults can, importantly, carry forward into a child's teenage years and adult life.

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5 - 8 years
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42 pages
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English
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Kindergarten - 4
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21.59 x 0.28 x 27.94 cm
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Educate2empower Publishing
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Nov. 10 2017
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1925089185
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978-1925089189
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"Sensitive, yet straight to the point. Jayneen Sanders has written the perfect book to start critical conversations between parent and child about consent and respect." Dr Justin Coulson PhD www.happyfamilies.com.au

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Jayneen (aka Jay Dale) is an experienced early years educator, author and publisher.She started her teaching career in the 1980s as a primary school teacher in rural Australia. She then moved to Melbourne and taught at a number of inner-city schools. In 1985, Jay had a change of career and became an educational editor and publisher.In the early 90s, Jay and her partner moved to Japan to work as English teachers. They lived and worked in Japan for over three and a half years. In fact, Jay's first daughter was born there.On returning to Australia, Jay began work as an educational author/packager. Since that time, she has authored and produced numerous award-winning titles for the educational publishing industry. Jay is also an accomplished children's book author, writing a number of titles for such literacy series as ZigZags, Totally Kidz, Deadly and Incredible, and a children's picture book series for Penguin.She is currently working with an educational publisher as lead author of a literacy series. Jay has written over 100 titles in that series.Jay is a mother of three daughters and was a school councillor at her local school for over seven years. This time spent in schools both as a teacher and a parent inspired her to ask the question of her community: 'What are we doing in schools to protect our children from unsafe touch?' When she realised very little was actually being done, she decided to use her authoring and publishing skills to write Some Secrets Should Never Be Kept to help parents, carers and teachers to broach the subject of self-protection and to encourage children to speak up.After the encouraging response to Some Secrets Should Never Be Kept, she realised there was a need to further build upon the idea of children not keeping secrets about unsafe touch. Jay participated in Protective Behaviours professional development and attended numerous conferences on the topic to educate herself in how to keep children safe and provide them with prevention education. Jay then went on to develop and publish a comprehensive Body Safety and Respectful Relationship Teacher's Resource Kit as well as writing several more children's books on the topics of Body Safety, consent, respect, body boundaries and gender equality. Jay's ongoing passion for the safety and empowerment of children continues today with new manuscripts and free-to-download Body Safety resources always in the wings.

Sarah Jennings is a children's book illustrator based in London.At a very young age she discovered a love of drawing and has been scribbling in a sketchbook ever since! Since graduating in 2013 she has worked on a variety of books. Sarah works from her home studio in the company of her three-legged cat, Calvin.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Educate2empower Publishing (Nov. 10 2017)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 42 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1925089185
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1925089189
Item weight ‏ : ‎ 154 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 21.59 x 0.28 x 27.94 cm

Best Sellers Rank: #614 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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- #183 in Literature & Fiction for Children (Books)

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Jayneen Sanders
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Jayneen (aka Jay Dale) is an experienced primary school teacher, editor, author and publisher.
She started her teaching career in the 1980s as an elementary school teacher in rural Queensland, Australia. She then moved to Victoria and taught at a number of inner-city schools.
In 1985, Jay had a change of career and became an educational editor and publisher.
In the early 90s, Jay and her partner moved to Japan to work as English teachers. They lived and worked in Japan for over three and a half years. In fact, Jay's first daughter was born there.
On returning to Australia, Jay began work as an educational author/packager. Since that time, she has authored and produced numerous award-winning titles for the educational publishing industry. Jay is also an accomplished children's book author, writing a number of titles for such literacy series as ZigZags, Totally Kidz, Deadly and Incredible, and a children's picture book series for Penguin.
During 2008 and 2009, Jay returned to teaching. That experience refreshed her understanding of issues facing children, teachers and parents.
She is currently working with an educational publisher as lead author of a new literacy series. Jay has written over 100 titles in that series.
More importantly, Jay is a mother of three teenage girls and has been a school councillor at her local primary school for over seven years. This time spent in primary schools both as a teacher and a parent inspired her to ask the question of her community: 'What are we doing in schools to protect our children from sexual interference?' When she realised very little was actually being done, she decided to use her authoring and publishing skills to write books to help parents, carers and teachers to broach the subject of self-protection and to encourage children to speak up.
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Sarah Jennings
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Sarah Jennings is a children's book illustrator based in London. At a very young age she discovered a love of drawing and has been scribbling away in a sketchbook ever since! She has worked on a wide variety of fiction, picture and non-fiction books. Sarah works from her home studio in the company of her two very naughty black cats!
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Mrs.C

Great

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on November 15, 2021

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Great book, my 3 year old keeps asking to read it. I think some words are a bit complex for her to understand so I just explain the story to her in more simple terms. This is a great book for kids to learn about respecting others personal space too. I like the part about the baby who can't talk and relate it to our dog, he also can't talk and doesn't always want to be touched. She can be a bit rough with him and when she starts bugging him I remind her of this book and how we have to respect everyones personal space if they don't want to be touched right then. I also saw her implement some of the things in real life, for example her grandma asked if she wanted to blow a kiss on a skype call to her cousin and she replied "not now". I really like her learning that she doesn't always have to do what people say in terms of greetings or showing affection. The only part I change in the book is about holding hands and I add in that we have to hold hands when crossing the street though. Really like this book.

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Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on August 17, 2022

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This book is amazing! Want to raise a little girl who has bodily autonomy... Get this book. Want to teach you kids how to treat animals and their brothers and sisters? Get this book. All we have to say to the kids now is "body boundaries!" and they know!

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Kid friendly way to talk about very real, scary conversations/topics

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on July 5, 2022

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Loved this book. Bought it for my grades 1, 2 and 3 students and I loved the examples and the way consent and boundaries were discussed.

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Britt

Empowers parents and children to talk about and enforce boundaries

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on November 8, 2019

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I love that this book helps parents teach about consent and boundaries in an age appropriate way. These conversations can be so hard, and I suspect are often avoided because we don’t want to take away our kiddos’ innocence or plant fear or mistrust, but it’s so crucial that our children are armed with this knowledge so that if they are ever in a situation where boundaries are crossed, they already know what is and isn’t appropriate and don’t have to worry or wonder. I think this book is a great resource that takes eases anxiety about how to brooch the subject and empowers our children to confidently protect their own bodies. Knowing the truths about their body in advance takes confusion out of grey areas that might be less dangerous, and reinforces safety and open communication with parents should something dangerous happen.

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Amanda Cunningham

Excellent resource for parents

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on July 5, 2021

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The picture I have is on my phone, but it came in great shape, and I am thoroughly happy with the contents. Not just about protecting a child from predators, but also about respecting the boundaries of other children, youth, teens, and adults. It is a well-rounded book about your body space, or what I like to call: "my bubble."
Highly recommend it!

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Robin Rimmer

Easy to follow for kids!!!

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on June 27, 2021

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I just received this today and read it with my 6 year old daughter. She usually has a hard time focusing on story books that are longer, but the way this book was written it encouraged her to answer questions about the story and kept her engaged. She learned a lot from this and is practicing asking for consent now which is wonderful!

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on February 11, 2020

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Great book for kids, bought for my 5 year old and she’s been a lot better with personal space... we’ve also been talking about a personal bubble as well so that’s also helped. Gave it a 4/5 cause it’s a bit lengthy when I’d prefer the message be shorter and clearer but it does cover a lot and would be good to read a bit at a time to have a clearer message

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Nan

Everyone should Read this book

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on March 10, 2022

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I cannot recommend this enough!!! Must-have!!!

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Loki

Introduction to body boundaries

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 16, 2018

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I think this book does a good job overall. It teaches body boundaries and respect to young children, using the examples of hugs, holding hands and playing games, so nothing too heavy. The language is age appropriate and there are extra notes for parents.

My complaint is about just one word, but I feel it's a major issue. The text, intended to be read to the child says that one of the childs 'safe' people should be outside the family. I understand the reasons why safeguarding people think this is a good idea, but what do they know of each childs individual circumstances? How do they know the child knows someone outside the family who is suitable? Potentially they could be encouraging the child to make an unsafe contact, for the sake of it being outside the family. The word 'could' could have been substituted, or there could have been a more detailed attempt to describe what a safe person is, how they make you feel etc.

I shall just be changing the wording of that part, otherwise it should be useful introduction to this topic.

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seabreeze

Great book!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on July 3, 2020

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This book was brilliant, perfect for my 4 year old. It was'nt to heavy or complex. Made it very clear about boundaries, during every day life and having respect of other peoples space and choices and people respecting your choices! It is in regards to everything not just body boundaries, playing with toys, people asking you to play a game you may not want to. it teaches about your decisions and that people must listen to when you say yes or no. Great way to introduce respecting other people and people respecting them. I definitely recommend.

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Accessible and important.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 7, 2020

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Really excellent book! I’d been struggling to find resources for my seven year old but this was perfect. Clear and accessible examples kept her interested and she has applied them to the real world since.
As a wheelchair user I was also really happy not just to see a fellow wheelchair user shown in the book, but that their “body boundary” went around their chair. Having had a stranger move me in my chair without permission I know it’s a lesson some people need! Overall a great book I’m very glad I bought.

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SY

Incredible and necessary!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 8, 2022

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I absolutely love this book.

My daughter is only 21 months but it’s never too early to start introducing consent and respect!

We read through it together, talk about the images and she’s now began repeating bits to me, for example I’ll point to the girl who doesn’t want a kiss and she will say “she’s sad” and when I ask why she replies “don’t want kiss, want hi five”. It shows me she is beginning to understand parts of the book, she has also started to tell us no if we ask for a hug or kiss and she’s not in the mood, which is great, as she’s learning her body is hers. As the book says “your body is yours, and you are the boss of it!”.

I think this book is a great foundation and starting point for any parent.

The illustrations are great too, although this probably is aimed at older children, it’s definitely engaging for toddlers thanks to the beautiful imagery!

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Tash Newton

Just wish I had bought this sooner

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 21, 2021

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This is a wonderful book teaching little ones how to remain assertive whilst politely ensuring they’re respected in a perfectly child friendly way. My daughter is 3.5 and she has already had to deal with preschool bullying from one child and a confrontation with older unpleasant children at the park blocking the slide and holding their fist in her face so I just wish I had read this book earlier as it not only helps my daughter but has given me tips on how to talk to horrible bullying children in the future. It also kept her attention firmly all the way though as it is / can be quite interactive. Highly recommend!!

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