Body Safety, for Kids

Six episodes for children aged 6 to 8, hosted by Mig, the same five-year-old boy from Safety When We're Out, for Kids, who builds a six-piece safety shield one episode at a time: my body is mine, touches, the swimsuit rule, secrets, a hand of trusted grown-ups, and respect. The course follows well-known body-safety education, in the spirit of the NSPCC's PANTS guidance and the Committee for Children's body-safety curriculum: your body belongs to you, and you can say no to a hug or a kiss even from someone in your family who loves you, offering a wave instead. It teaches the difference between a touch that feels good and one that leaves a strange, uneasy feeling in the tummy, a feeling that is always worth trusting and telling a grown-up about. Using only the swimsuit rule, never anatomical names, it explains that the parts covered by a swimsuit are private and only yours, with nobody allowed to touch them, ask to see them, or ask a child to touch someone else's, the only exceptions being a grown-up helping a little one bathe, and a doctor examining with the child's own grown-up in the room, always explaining first. A good surprise, like a hidden party, is never confused with a secret that makes a child's tummy feel wrong, and the second kind is always told, with the reassurance repeated throughout: telling never gets a child in trouble, and it is never the child's fault. When one grown-up can't listen, the course hands a child a hand of five trusted adults to try next, and closes with respect working both ways, asking before a hug, and a no counting the same, whichever side it comes from.