07/19/2025
So true
We spend so much focus teaching children to tell, tell, tell, say no, don't keep secrets, if someone sexually abuses them, yet adults can barely talk about the issue.
Because children are living through sexual victimization day in and day out, adults have a duty to talk about it and practice prevention skills as best we can, day in and day out, so children can have safe childhoods once and for all.
Every parent / caregiver and person working with youth has a responsibility to actively practice prevention on behalf of the children in their care.
For me, after almost 4 decades working in the field of child sex abuse prevention, I have seen repeatedly that the denial that surrounds this crime is exactly what allows it to continue.
If we say...
➡️I have boys, I don't need to think about child sexual abuse
➡️This would never happen in my family / organization
➡️I live in a really safe close-knit community
➡️I don't want to live with a feeling of paranoia
➡️My children are never away from me
➡️I really would rather bury my head in the sand...
then we are complicit in allowing the continual sexual perpetration of children.
If we expect children to tell, we must talk about it.
That's what I do in my Parenting Safe Children Workshops.
I help you make a really uncomfortable topic less scary by providing simple actions you can take everyday.
Are you willing to feel a little uncomfortable so your children never have to?
My next Parenting Safe Children workshop is
August 30th live via Zoom.
Register at parentingsafechildren.com/calendar or DM me.
