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For Children

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Where Hands Go: An Introduction to Safe and Unsafe Touch

As part of the Kids Again Foundation, this easy-to-read, colorfully illustrated book aims to help children understand the importance of consent and when it is not ok to be touched.

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C is for Consent

This board book teaches that it is okay for kids to say no to hugs and kisses, and that what happens to a their body is up to them. This helps children grow up confident in their bodies, comfortable with expressing physical boundaries, and respectful of the boundaries of others.

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Let's Talk About Body Boundaries, Consent and Respect

This book explores body boundaries with children in a child-friendly and easily-understood manner, providing familiar scenarios for children to engage with and discuss.

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Find Your Calm

Find Your Calm is a wonderfully accessible book that teaches children how to tap into their sense of safety when they experience anxiety so they can learn to find their calm. It includes kid-friend activities and coping tools for them to practice.

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Where Hands Go: Body Safety Rules

Where Hands Go will provide your child with 10 easy-to-follow rules that will empower your child, so they know what to do if an unwanted touch happens.

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My Body Belongs to Me, From My Head to My Toes

Clara is our narrator, who encourages kids to say “no” if they are uncomfortable with physical contact. She gives tips about what they can say or do to avoid unwanted physical contact, or how to tell the right people in the event it has already occurred.

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The Body Safety Workbook for Kids

Empower your child with essential body safety skills through interactive activities and parent-guided discussions.

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Where Hands Go: The Power of No

With playful and engaging rhymes, children will learn to recognize and speak out against unwanted touches, set boundaries, and communicate with trusted adults.

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A Terrible Thing Happened

This gently told and tenderly illustrated story is for children who have witnessed any kind of violent or traumatic episode, including physical abuse, school or gang violence, accidents, homicide, suicide, and natural disasters such as floods or fire.

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You-ology: A Puberty Guide for Every Body

A new kind of puberty guide, You-ology embraces an inclusive approach that normalizes puberty for all kids, from the American Academy of Pediatrics.

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For Teens

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Girl Made of Stars

A timely, emotionally gripping story about facing hard truths of consent and victim blaming in the aftermath of sexual assault, while shining a light on the story of a survivor with sensitivity and hope.

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Being a Teen: Everything Teen Girls and Boys Should Know About...

...Sex, Love, Health, Identity, and More. This thorough, concise guide offers straight talk about, well, all of the above and more.

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Let's Talk About It: The Teen's Guide to Sex, Relationships, and Being a Human

Covering relationships, friendships, gender, sexuality, anatomy, body image, safe sex, sexting, jealousy, rejection, sex education, and more, Let's Talk About It is the go-to handbook for every teen, and the first in graphic novel form.

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It's Perfectly Normal

Inclusive and accessible, this newest edition of It’s Perfectly Normal provides young people with the knowledge and vocabulary they need to understand their bodies, relationships, and identities in order to make responsible decisions and stay healthy.

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Consent: The New Rules of Sex Education

In this book, Dr. Jennifer Lang delivers a frank, compassionate, and evidence-based guide to healthy sexual relationships for teens, focusing on the crucial role of consent in sex education.

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Mindfulness for Teens in 10 Minutes a Day

This gently told and tenderly illustrated story is for children who have witnessed any kind of violent or traumatic episode, including physical abuse, school or gang violence, accidents, homicide, suicide, and natural disasters such as floods or fire.

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For Parents & Caregivers

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Body Safety Education: A Parent's Guide to Protecting Kids from Sexual Abuse

A step-by-step guide for parents and caregivers on how to protect children from sexual abuse through personal Body Safety Education.

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My Body Belongs to Me: A Parent's Guide

This book is your guide to starting conversations with kids as young as 3 about boundaries and consent, using language and examples that they can understand. Learning how to set boundaries for themselves and recognize the boundaries of others will help kids develop their own self-esteem and stay safe.

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Beyond Birds and Bees: Bringing Home New Message to Our Kids About Sex, Love, and Equality

A provocative inquiry into how we teach our children about bodies, sex, relationships, and equality - with revelatory, practical takeaways from the author's research and eye-opening observations from the world-famous Dutch approach.

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The Body Boundaries Parenting Guide

Empower your child to understand and communicate their body boundaries with confidence through engaging activities and guided conversations—designed specifically for teaching body safety to children ages 3–6.

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