Body Safety Blog

ABUSE PREVENTION TOOLKIT: A safety network is a MUST in your abuse prevention toolkit. Here are the reasons why:

- Your child needs to know that they have other adults/peers in their life that they can turn to if they need help and you (as the primary caregiver) are either unavailable or they can't turn to you for any number of reasons.

- They may be put in a position where they are bribed, threatened or

So what do you need to create a safety-network?

You need to have 3 to 5 adults (can include one peer) and one of those adults needs to be someone that is NOT family.

Your child should help you select who they feel are the trusted adults that can be included in the safety-network.

once you have your list, you need to then ask those adults/peers if they are willing to be in your family's safety- network and what that will mean if they agree.

What it will mean is that they are accessible to reach by phone or in-person and that if they can't be accessible that they can reach out to ...

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This week Kristen & Talia get to pick the brain of Rosalia from Consent Parenting. She brings us on her journey to motherhood, and her three different births. We get to hear about how she managed depression during her third pregnancy, and her introduction to meditation. We dive deep into the culture we can create in our home of consent parenting and what this means. We get to hear about some ways we can discuss this with grandparents, as well as how to navigate some tricky things adults might say to kids when they show their affection differently than the adult was hoping. We ask for statistics on sexual abuse, and learn about the age children are now being introduced to pornography and why that matters. Rosalia was a wealth of information!

Your child doesn't OWE you any affection and you are NOT entitled to it from them. This doesn't mean you would deny them safety and affection. It's about modeling healthy relationships, and the most important and significant one is with you!

In this video, a continuation of last week's video- I talk about the HOW to approach teaching about body autonomy and asking for affection/giving affection.

I'd love to hear your thoughts after watching the video.

Your kids will INEVITABLY come across it, whether intentionally or not. The average age for kids (all genders) to come across it for the first time now is between 9 and 13.

So... When is the right time to have this conversation?

(And yes, you do need to have this conversation with ALL GENDERS.)

And your next questions is probably: "What do I have to say to my kid/child/tween to start"?

In today's video I'm going to give you the low down!

So you want to hug your child, but they don't want affection. Do you still hug them because you want them to feel that you love them- and deep down, you feel they're YOUR child, you have that right?

Today we're talking about parents who feel 'entitled' to give/receive affection from their child.

No one is entitled to their child's body and in this video I'm going to talk about why.

A few weeks ago I sat down with Elena Valle, the host of the Elena Out Loud podcast, to be interviewed for her 'survivor series'. 

We talked about what parents can do to start shifting their parenting style to create consent culture in their homes and communities!

We also talked about recognizing rape culture and how we can all make changes to dismantle it.

Here is Elena's podcast episode!