Teaching kids about appropriate boundaries

Pattie Fitzgerald, Child Safety Expert, shares advice for parents on how to teach your kids about the appropriate boundaries to touch and be touched
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Teaching kids about appropriate boundaries

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It is so important to teach our children about boundaries when they interact with people, like babysitters, sports coaches, teachers, even the friendly neighbor. How do we teach that? Start by talking about bad touch, good touch, confusing touch. Let your child know that they have the right to say, "No," to any kind of touch that makes them feel yucky or uncomfortable. I like to talk to kids about their bathing suit areas. The part of your body that is covered by a bathing suit. It's no big deal. We all have them, but there is an important rule about everybody's bathing suit areas on their body. They are private. That just means, nobody should be looking at or touching your bathing suit area on your body. You shouldn't be asked to touch somebody else's bathing suit area on their body. If a child does come to you and tells you that somebody tried to break that rule, believe your child. Let them know that you will help them, and they are glad that they told you.

Pattie Fitzgerald, Child Safety Expert, shares advice for parents on how to teach your kids about the appropriate boundaries to touch and be touched

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Pattie Fitzgerald

Child Safety Expert

Pattie Fitzgerald is the founder of Safely Ever After, Inc., and is recognized as a leading expert in the field of childhood sexual abuse prevention education, child abduction prevention, and Internet Safety education.  She is certified as a Child Safety Educator and Child Visitation Monitor, and has worked tirelessly as children’s advocate for over ten years.  As a former preschool teacher, Pattie blends her expertise as an educator and, more importantly as a mom, to teach parents and kids everywhere the most effective, up-to-date safety strategies without using fear tactics.   

Admired for her positive approach and warm, compassionate style, Pattie is also the author of the newly released children’s book, No Trespassing – This Is MY Body which parents and children are embracing across the country.  Pattie’s programs and curriculum have been implemented in public and private schools throughout the United States and have been also been utilized by The Santa Monica Police School Resource Department as well as the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department through their MERIT Program.   

Prior to the inception of Safely Ever After, Inc., Pattie worked as the Community Outreach Educator for the national child advocacy agency, Parents For Megan’s Law.  Her published work has appeared in national newspapers, parenting magazines, and trade journals throughout the country, and she has been featured on Good Morning America, CNN Headline News, MSNBC, KCBS, KABC and KNBC news as well as countless national radio programs.

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