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"The crucial skills taught in this book will help children to protect their bodies from inappropriate touch. Children will be empowered to say in a strong and clear voice, ""This is my body! What I say goes!"" This book, written by the author of No Means No! and Some Secrets Should Never Be Kept, will teach children the following crucial and empowering skills in personal body safety: - Identifying safe and unsafe feelings - Recognizing early warning signs - Developing a safety network - Using the correct names for private parts - Understanding the difference between safe and unsafe touch - Understanding the difference between secrets and surprises - Respecting body boundaries Approximately 20 percent of girls and 8 percent of boys will experience sexual abuse before their eighteenth birthday (Pereda, et al, 2009). Parents, caregivers, and educators have a duty of care to protect children by teaching them Body Safety skills. These skills empower children and go a long way in keeping them safe from abuse--ensuring they grow up as assertive and confident teenagers and adults. Also included with this audiobook is a downloadable PDF of in-depth Discussion Questions to further enhance learning and to initiate important family conversations around body autonomy."

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"Jayneen Sanders (a.k.a. Jay Dale) is an experienced early years educator, author, and publisher. Her 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?"" 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. Tanya Dougherty is a classically trained Australian actor and audiobook narrator currently based in Brooklyn. With over twenty years of professional experience in theater, film, teaching, and puppetry, in narration she has been able to combine her passion for storytelling with her life-long love of reading books."

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