Kidpower Starting Strong Teaching Books

Safety Lessons and Teacher's Guide Books

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This curriculum is designed to make it fun and easy for educators to teach 'People Safety' lessons to groups of young children ages 3 to 7 years.

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This Starting Strong Safety Lessons book includes clear explanations, relevant social stories, and directions for practicing each set of skills along with adaptations for learning differences. 
  • Use Safety Powers to Stop Problems
  • Where Is Safety And How To Get Help
  • Safety Rules with Touch, Teasing, And Play
  • Stranger Safety Rules
In this book, you will find twelve cartoon-illustrated 'People Safety' lessons to help prepare younger children to prevent and solve problems with people. 

A look inside the Starting Strong Safety Lessons Book

Where is safety and how to get help

Help prepare younger children to prevent and solve problems with people

Teach safety skills to young children

Companion Teacher's Guide provides crafts, games, and suggestions

A look inside the Starting Strong Teacher's Guide Book

When to wait and when to interrupt

Help prepare younger children to prevent and solve problems with people

Teach safety skills to young children

Companion Teacher's Guide provides crafts, games, and suggestions

Help prepare younger children to prevent and solve problems with people

A look inside the Starting Strong Safety Lessons Book

Teach children safety rules about touch, teasing, and play

What's included in the Kidpower Starting Strong Safety Lesson Book?

Help prepare younger children to prevent and solve problems with people. This Starting Strong Safety Lessons book includes clear explanations, relevant social stories, and directions for practicing each set of skills along with adaptations for learning differences. 

Safety concepts through stories

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Add Getting Help or Setting Boundary Story here
Story: Sharona Protects Her Feelings
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Each Page Includes Modeling and Coaching Instructions

Skill Practices

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Coaching Words to Practice Skills
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Inside Look - add video here

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Table of Contents

Lesson 1: Use Safety Powers To Stop Problems

Lesson 5: Safety Rules With Touch, Teasing, And Play

Lesson 9: Safety Emergencies

Lesson 2: Hurtful Words And Kind Words

Lesson 6: Keep Asking Until You Get Help

Lesson 10: Safety With Touch: Choices and Private Areas

Lesson 3: Where Is Safety And How To Get Help?

Lesson 7: Check First Before You Change the Plan

Lesson 11: Use Safety Powers To Stop Bullying

Lesson 4: Boundary Powers In Everyday Relationships

Lesson 8: Stranger Safety Rules

Lesson 12: Use Safety Powers Everyday With Everyone

The activities in this book are designed to be fun because children and adults alike learn better when they are having fun. Instead of dwelling on the bad things that might happen, Kidpower focuses on practicing what we can do to stay safe, which reduces worry and increases competence and confidence.
As a companion book to our Kidpower Starting Strong Safety Lessons, this Teacher’s Guide provides crafts, games, suggestions for using the Kidpower skills to address different issues, take-home lessons for families, and adaptations for children with learning differences. The purpose is to build on the skills and knowledge taught in the Lessons book in order to help children develop strong safety habits that can stay with them throughout their lives.

You may also be interested in these Kidpower safety resources for young children!

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KIDPOWER SAFETY TIPS FOR PARENTS, TEACHERS, COACHES, AND OTHER CAREGIVERS
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THE KIDPOWER BOOK FOR CARING ADULTS
7 Keys for Teaching Safety Skills To Everyone, Everywhere (ARTICLE)
10 Actions for adult leaders to protect and empower young people (article)

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Want the Starting Strong Safety Lessons in Paperback?

From this page, your purchase will provide you with a digital copy of the book that you can read online or download as a PDF to your device. In print books are available through Amazon.
Larger order discounts available in the U.S.
For discounts on orders of 20 or more in-print books (purchased and shipped within the U.S.), please fill out our contact form. 

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Larger order discounts available in the U.S.
For discounts on orders of 20 or more in-print books (purchased and shipped within the U.S.), please fill out our contact form. 

Small print orders on Amazon (U.S.)
Buy this book in Print on Amazon
Print orders on Amazon (outside the U.S.)
You can buy this book in-print through Amazon with local shipping from the following countries:
  • Austria
  • Canada
  • France
  • Germany
  • Italy
  • Japan
  • Spain
  • UK

    • Want the Starting Strong Teacher's Guide in Paperback?

    From this page, your purchase will provide you with a digital copy of the book that you can read online or download as a PDF to your device. In print books are available through Amazon.
    Larger order discounts available in the U.S.
    For discounts on orders of 20 or more in-print books (purchased and shipped within the U.S.), please fill out our contact form. 

    Small print orders on Amazon (U.S.)
    Buy this book in Print on Amazon
    Print orders on Amazon (outside the U.S.)
    You can buy this book in-print through Amazon with local shipping from the following countries:
    Larger order discounts available in the U.S.
    For discounts on orders of 20 or more in-print books (purchased and shipped within the U.S.), please fill out our contact form. 

    Small print orders on Amazon (U.S.)
    Buy this book in Print on Amazon
    Print orders on Amazon (outside the U.S.)
    You can buy this book in-print through Amazon with local shipping from the following countries:
  • Austria
  • Canada
  • France
  • Germany
  • Italy
  • Japan
  • Spain
  • UK

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    About the author

    Irene van der Zande

    Kidpower Founder and Executive Irene van der Zande is a master at teaching safety through stories and practices and at inspiring others to do the same. Her child protection and personal safety expertise has been featured by USA Today, CNN, Today Moms, the LA Times, and The Wall Street Journal. Publications include: cartoon-illustrated Kidpower Safety Comics and Kidpower Teaching Books curriculum; Bullying: What Adults Need to Know and Do to Keep Kids Safe; the Relationship Safety Skills Handbook for Teens and Adults; Earliest Teachable Moment: Personal Safety for Babies, Toddlers, and Preschoolers; The Kidpower Book for Caring Adults: Personal Safety, Self-Protection, Confidence, and Advocacy for Young People, and the Amazon Best Seller Doing Right by Our Kids: Protecting Child Safety at All Levels.
    Patrick Jones - Course author

    Book Publishing Team

    Meet the team that brought Starting Strong to life!
    Marylaine Léger
    Online Programs Director
    Kidpower International
    Sol Pederson
    Technical Specialist
    Kidpower International 
    Amanda Golert
    Starting Strong: Illustrator

    The Kidpower Online Learning Center, part of Kidpower International, aims to help learners gain important 'People Safety' skills for themselves and to help educators and caring adults learn how to teach these important skills to others, using Kidpower's Positive Teaching Method™.

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