Body Safety Blog

Here are the average times kids spend at school: 

Kindergarten: Around 15 to 30 hours per week

• Half-day programs: 3–4 hours per day (15–20 hours per week)
• Full-day programs: 6 hours per day (30 hours per week)

Elementary School (Grades 1–5 or 6): Around 30 to 35 hours per week

• Most schools have a 6- to 7-hour school day, five days a week.

That's a lot of time to trust our kids to a school (and system) that we hardly know...

We drop off our kids hoping that they will have a good day, make friends, not be bullied, eat their lunch, have a compassionate teacher, don't get hurt on the playground, get included in team sports, that the teacher makes learning fun, that they don't fall behind academically, or that their school won't ever have to experience a school shooting (a legitimate concern in the U.S.).

And we receive student or school handbooks that cover everything from food allergy policies, anti-bullying policies, fire drills, classroom conduct, lunch schedules, classr...

Respectful Parenting · Abuse Prevention Strategies to Keep Our Kids Safe (with Rosalia Rivera)

We are living in critical times where kids need us to step up and be proactive safe adults in our children's lives. And this begins by, not only, being upstanders for our kids, but also teaching them about abuse prevention. And at the heart of abuse prevention is consent education.⁠⠀
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Respecting autonomy (at the heart of consent) is 100% aligned with respectful parenting, and that's why I'm so overjoyed that I had the opportunity to chat with Janet Lansbury for her UNRUFFLED podcast this week!⁠⠀
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Janet and I talked about how parents can incorporate abuse prevention strategies into our parenting style so that we are empowering our kids against sexual abuse every step of the way.⁠⠀
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I'm so grateful to Janet for helping to amplify this information through her platform! Let’s keep talking about this, let’s get loud for our kids sakes and keep showing up as the safe people our kids need!⠀

The way we raise kids is rooted in colonization mentality.

And if you don't know what that means, you're in for a treat.

This topic might just blow your mind!

Learn more from Dr Rosales Meza on her website at: https://www.drrosalesmeza.com/

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.