Protect Your Children and Have This Conversation
Posted September 11, 2018 by Prairie Wife -
I get it, it’s awkward and embarrassing to have a conversation with your kids about someone touching them in an inappropriate way.
It’s scary to even think for a moment about them being molested.
What if having the conversation about appropriate and inappropriate touches puts the idea into their head to do something that IS NOT OK?
Take a moment and watch my radio show segment from yesterday.
If you don’t want to watch it, simply listen to it like a podcast while you’re driving back and forth to sports or making dinner.
I cannot tell you enough times, having this conversation is vital to keeping your children safe.
Resources mentioned in program:
A few notes/important points:
- Give your children age appropriate information
- Use concrete examples including what they should specifically do or say
- Teach them about “tricks”
- Remind them it’s not OK for them to harm others
- Believe the child
- Stay calm
- Be caring
- Face the problem “Protect the child at all cost and place responsibility appropriately with the abuser”
Something I didn’t get time to share was a few quotes I found from survivors of child abuse.
Your story is the key that can unlock someone else’s prison. Share your testimony.
Don’t judge yourself by what others did to you.
C Kennedy
One of the most valuable things we can do to heal one another is to listen to one another’s stories.
Rebecca Falls
Someone once asked me how I hold my head up so high after all I had been through. I said it’s because no mater what I am a survivor, not a victim.
Patricia Buckley
Categories: Life As It Happens, Parenting
Tags: , abuse, appropriate touches, child safety, children, hard conversations, help for parents, inappropriate touches, parenting, sexual abuse, sexual abuse of children, support
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