The Kidpower Book
for Caring Adults

This inspiring, comprehensive guide puts Kidpower’s decades of experience at the fingertips of parents, educators, and all adults who care about protecting children and teens.

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We put Kidpower’s decades of experience at the fingertips of people who care about protecting young people from bullying, abuse, abduction, and other violence –
And we help prepare adults to empower young people with skills and knowledge for developing positive relationships, increasing confidence, and taking charge of their emotional and physical safety.

See Table of Contents and Comments from readers below.
“I LOVE it! I have been teaching my own kids using it as a guide. It seems that you are giving the gift of the whole Kidpower program to each person who buys this book, and to the children who will benefit.”

Table of Contents

Over 400 pages of inspiring stories, hands-on activities, and clear explanations are provided through the following chapters:
  • The Kidpower Story
  • What Adults Need to Know About "People Safety" for Kids
  • Building a Foundation of Emotional Safety for Young People
  • Five Key Self-Protection Strategies for Preventing Trouble
  • Safety Plans to Prepare for the Unexpected
  • Boundaries and Advocacy to Build Better Relationships
  • Self-Defense to Stop Most Emergencies
  • Protecting Young People From Bullying
  • Protecting Children From Sexual Abuse
  • Protecting Kids from Abduction and Teaching Stranger Safety
  • The Safety of Kids is Everybody's Business - How to Intervene
  • One Million Safer Kids - A Call to Action from Kidpower

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    Comments from readers

    I recommend Kidpower as a strong foundation of every family’s personal safety training. I’ve been fortunate to serve as an Advisor to Kidpower Teenpower Fullpower International for almost 20 years. That commitment began as I watched kids at a workshop, saw them joyfully and successfully taught to practice skills that can keep them safe, and I felt intuitively ‘This is right.’
    GAVIN DE BECKER
    Best-selling author of The Gift of Fear and Protecting the Gift
    As someone who has worked with thousands of survivors of child abuse, I particularly recommend the Kidpower Method because of its excellent balance of building self worth while focusing on prevention skills to set appropriate boundaries. Kidpower’s upbeat approach empowers kids and adults alike with the social-emotional skills they need, not just to be safe, but to thrive. Kidpower’s commitment to integrity, respect, effectiveness, and excellence is reflected throughout this book.
    ELLEN BASS
    Co-author of the Courage to Heal and Heal Your Mind
    Kidpower has an outstanding track record in teaching parents and other caring adults effective skills for protecting young people without creating fear. As a public safety officer, I strongly believe that a great deal of violence, including bullying and abuse, could be prevented if everyone had these skills.
    MANNY SOLANO
    Police Chief, City of Watsonville
    I am so moved by your generosity in publishing this book. I LOVE it! I have been teaching my own kids using it as a guide. It seems that you are giving the gift of the whole Kidpower program to each person who buys this book, and to the children who will benefit. What a wonderful thing you have done!
    MOTHER OF TWO SCHOOL-AGED CHILDREN
    The Kidpower program is compelling in its relevance and importance to a child’s education. As a father and head of school, I appreciate how Kidpower gives parents and teachers practical tools that they can use effectively to protect the emotional and physical safety of the children and youth in their lives. The empowerment and advocacy that Kidpower promotes are essential to a child’s well-being. Kidpower has been a unifying theme in my educational philosophy for over 20 years.
    DR. PETER LEWIS
    Head of school
    Incorporating Kidpower skills into my family’s daily lives has helped me raise a child who is independent and prepared to explore the world with safety and confidence.  Now all families can access this knowledge through “The Kidpower Book,” a resource that is chock-full of practical safety skills and strategies, presented in a very accessible format.  Kidpower empowers adults to teach these skills to kids in a way that is both effective and emotionally safe, not scary.  This book is a treasure-trove of information, and I am proud to give Kidpower my highest personal and professional recommendation. Kidpower has an outstanding track record in teaching parents and other caring adults effective skills for protecting young people without creating fear. As a public safety officer, I strongly believe that a great deal of violence, including bullying and abuse, could be prevented if everyone had these skills.
    DR. AMY TIEMANN
    Author of Mojomom, Creator of Courageous Parents, Confident Kids:Letting Go So You Both Can Grow and Co-Creator of Doing Right by Our Kids
    Irene van der Zande has written a virtual encyclopedia on how to keep children and teens safe. Every parent should have this, both for the practical and carefully researched information and for the clear drills that any caring adults can use to practice safety skills with their child. I also highly recommend this book as an excellent resource for martial artists and self-defense instructors wanting to build or enhance their programs for child and teen safety skills. I’ve been in this business for decades and have never seen anything that can come close to Irene’s well thought-out and child-friendly approach, and it is well-written and engaging to boot! The layout, photos, and illustrations are the icing on the cake that make it even easier to read. Kudos on a really great and ever-so-important book.
    CAROL MIDDLETON
    Co-founder of the National Womens Martial Arts Federation and Director of the DC Self-Defense Karate Association
    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.

    Kidpower is a tapestry of many different threads woven by many different hands. This book has grown from the ideas, questions, teaching, feedback, and stories of countless people since I first started learning about personal safety and self-defense in 1985. Learn more about the remarkable people who have built and keep building our organization by reading A Tapestry Woven By Many Different Hands.
    Patrick Jones - Course author

    About the production team

    Advanced Reader Edition Cover Design and Book Layout

    Kristen Calcatera, Big Sky Creative.

    First Edition Copy Editing and Proofreading

    Cornelia Baumgartner
    Amanda Golert
    Kelly Goodwin
    Chantal Keeney
    Marylaine Léger
    Erika Leonard
    Kathy Pavlik

    Kidpower Logo Design and First Edition Book Cover, Design, and Layout

    Ian Price, Price Watkins Media

    Research Footnotes and Indexing

    Andrew Carl 
    Jessica Yazmin Herrera

    Early Draft Editing

    Lynda Leonard
    Laurel Miranda

    Feedback for Chapter About Protecting Kids From Sexual Abuse

    Jan Isaacs Henry
    Carla Lemmon
    John Luna-Sparks

    Cartoons

    Amanda Golert

    Online Learning Center Publication

    Mackenzie Mitchell
    Marylaine Léger

    Early Draft Editing

    Lynda Leonard
    Laurel Miranda

    Photographs

    Catherine Arnold
    Nicole Barbara
    Allegra Doriss
    Cate Gaffney
    Amanda Golert
    Alice Keeney
    Erika Leonard
    Lynda Leonard 
    Claire Laughlin
    Juliana Schweidzon Machado
    Laurel Miranda
    Eugene Tanner
    Shmuel Thaler
    Phung Bich Thuy
    Zaida Torres
    Pat West
    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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