Jayneen Sanders collaboration
We partnered with Jayneen Sanders, author and publisher at Educate2Empower Publishing, on a range of tools and resources to help adults start conversations with children and young people.
In the video below, Jayneen speaks about how age-appropriate body safety education is empowering for children and young people, and can be taught in a supportive and relaxed way.
Read the transcript
My name is Jayneen Sanders. I'm a children's book author. I'm an educator. I'm an advocate for body safety and consent education. And together with my husband, Mark, we publish my books under the imprint Educate to Empower Publishing.
I understand that many adults find this topic confronting. I mean, it is confronting, but your fear may well be putting your children at risk. Perpetrators rely on secrecy. They rely on our fear. So the more we talk about child safety and child sexual abuse, the safer our kids are going to be.
Body safety education is age appropriate, and it's really empowering for your child. And remember, if you have these conversations from a very young age with your child, your child will know you are a safe person, you are a trusted person, and an empowered child is an empowered teenager is an empowered adult.
Books are such a wonderful way to start these conversations because children are visual learners. They love an illustration. And when you sit down with your child and you snuggle up on the couch and you have these conversations, it is just such a lovely way to teach kids in a supportive and relaxed way.
Parents can go to the ChildSafety.gov.au website and my website Educate2Empower Publishing For more resources and books and the child safety cards which we've developed together.
If parents are really concerned about these conversations, I would like to say to them to put your fear of this topic aside and to educate yourself and your child.
Little BIG Chats readings
Jayneen also speaks about how books can be used to start conversations about body safety. Jayneen has published many children’s books on the topics of body safety, respectful relationships and gender equality, including her Little BIG Chats series. You and the children in your life can watch Jayneen reading 5 of the books from this series – Consent, Private Parts are Private, My Safety Network, Secrets and Surprises, and My Early Warning Signs – by following the link below.
Visit the Little BIG Chats readings
To support adults to teach children the concepts from the Little BIG Chats books, we worked with Jayneen to develop activities and resources that can be printed out, discussed and completed with children and young people.
My body safety rules
Poster with a set of rules that children and young people can learn to help keep them safe.
My early warning signs
Poster showing physical signs a children or young person might experience when they feel unsafe or uncomfortable.
Other helpful resources
Educate2Empower Publishing has a range of educational resources, including posters, lesson plans and activities, on body safety and other useful topics.