[Heidi]

Originally Posted by Jacqui

Hi I am new here, this forum is fantastic and so much help. Hopefully someone can help me. I need some ideas about Child protection. My questions are how to help children become:

more aware of their bodies
protect themselves
ensure their rights not to be abused

THen i need to recommend a story that i could read to the children (in my case aged 3 to 5) that would help to discuss being safe?

I am really struggling with this and spent hours on the interent last night but still cant find what i need. The only books I couldfind were about Bullying but I am not sure if this is what i need?

Any help would be really appreciated

Many thanks

Jacqui
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Hi,
I'm going to paste an old answer that I gave to someone who asked about about safe guarding children and a suitable story that cold be used to help them. I hope this helps for part of your question.



Some of the old fables and stories help get messages such as these across such as reading Golidlocks - the dangers of entering/going off to somewhere they shouldn't, and then you could discuss sensitively (without fightening them) why they should always stay close to their parents/carers and what could happen if they didn't, because like Goldilocks she didn't know if they were 'safe' to be around so she ran all the way home., but best not to go off with someone or go off somewhere without your parent/carer.

Also to safeguard them against dangers such as fire - you could talk about birthday cakes and candles - how we use fire to celebrate for birthdays, fireworks etc, again explain why only adults use and keep matches - fire is dangerous and people die in fires. You could then talk of people keeping them safe - their parents not wanting them to wander off and get lost and the consequences that might befall them. That a policeman or woman look our for everone making sure everyone is safe.

You could talk of the firefighters doing an extremely important job if there is a fire, but it is also dangerous for them, that's why they wear special uniforms, masks etc, so even adults have to be careful if they are having barbeques etc as fires in the wrong places can be very dangerous.

You could then talk about safeguarding themselves in the house - dangers such as pans boiling on the stove, electrical sockets are only for electrical appliances. Why they should safeguard themselves, stay away from these dangers and more importantly when they are young always be with their parent/carers.

I hope this does for a starter for you.