Kidpower Youth Safety Comics
This book helps parents and teachers answer the question,
“How can my older kids stay safe while becoming more independent?”
A fun, practical tool for discussing and practicing ways to stay safe from bullying, abuse, and violence – and how to avoid difficult or dangerous problems with people you know and people you don’t.
“How can my older kids stay safe while becoming more independent?”
A fun, practical tool for discussing and practicing ways to stay safe from bullying, abuse, and violence – and how to avoid difficult or dangerous problems with people you know and people you don’t.
Comments from readers
The Kidpower comics helped us SO MUCH with our kids. My son had been very shy, and practicing the activities in the comics helped him be more self confident. On the other hand, my daughter used to walk up to anyone and start chit-chatting. Practicing the activities in the comics taught her some restraint and appropriate boundaries. We had tried to help both kids with these things beforehand, but our advice and cautions never hit home. Kidpower, however, spoke their language, and taught them safety skills in simple, non-shaming, and empowering ways.
Great resource! I've found these safety comics very helpful, because it can be difficult to remember so many great safety skills, scenarios and how to coach and practice with my kids, especially when they're first introduced. These books remind me of the safety skills, provide scenarios that I can then expand on or add to depending on what safety challenges my kids have, while engaging them and providing practice so that they're more likely to use their power in the safety situations. In addition, they provide the room for great conversation starters in a non-obtrusive, natural way. I've found that this is not just a book to read, this is a book to discuss and practice with to really get it's full benefit.
We found this to be very informative and useful information easily understandable for pre-teens and teens alike. Highly recommend this book.
The skills in this book can prevent serious problems, but they are fun to practice with the Kidpower approach. Definitely a great tool for talking about and practicing stranger safety and skills to help prevent abuse -- without talking about abuse.
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
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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™.