It’s never too early to start talking to children about their bodies, setting boundaries, and respecting others.
Child protection is a lifelong conversation, and Every Body Talk is only the beginning.
These are hard conversations to have, we get it. But, they are important. Every Body Talk is intended to be an introduction to age appropriate conversations about body safety, and setting boundaries. With this book as a guide, healthy conversations are easier so they can happen earlier in children’s lives. You are accomplishing a major first step in ensuring child safety – that you and your child can discuss anything of concern when it comes to them and their body.
Using diverse and relatable characters, this book helps you talk to your child about correct body terms, respecting others, and setting boundaries.
You’re not just building healthy conversation skills, you’re helping your child build knowledge and skills that protect against sexual harm.
Correct Body Terms
The words “vagina” and “penis” in Every Body Talk may make some folks uneasy at first, yet researchers have found that using correct anatomical terms can protect kids from harm. Offenders seek out children who don’t know the terms or those who are not able to communicate what happened clearly. Phrases like “It’s my body and it’s not to be shared!” enables kids to know what they can say if they’re feeling unsafe or uncomfortable.
Empathy
Helping children develop a greater sense of empathy – or the ability to understand and share others’ feelings – might just help lower the risk of a child hurting another. According to the CDC evidence suggests that greater empathy, emotional health and connectedness, academic achievement, and having parents who use reasoning to resolve family conflicts are associated with a lower risk of Sexual Violence (SV) Perpetration.
Body Safety
If we want to prevent sexual violence, it’s important that we teach children they have boundaries that need to be respected, and that they’re expected to respect boundaries of others too. Together we can help boost necessary skills for maintaining boundaries – like working on impulse control, self-confidence, and communication skills. And we can help remind kids and teens that setting, communicating, and maintaining boundaries is a lifelong process.
Correct Body Terms
The words “vagina” and “penis” in Every Body Talk may make some folks uneasy at first, yet researchers have found that using correct anatomical terms can protect kids from harm. Offenders seek out children who don’t know the terms or those who are not able to communicate what happened clearly. Phrases like “It’s my body and it’s not to be shared!” enables kids to know what they can say if they’re feeling unsafe or uncomfortable.
Empathy
Helping children develop a greater sense of empathy – or the ability to understand and share others’ feelings – might just help lower the risk of a child hurting another. According to the CDC evidence suggests that greater empathy, emotional health and connectedness, academic achievement, and having parents who use reasoning to resolve family conflicts are associated with a lower risk of Sexual Violence (SV) Perpetration.
Body Safety
If we want to prevent sexual violence, it’s important that we teach children they have boundaries that need to be respected, and that they’re expected to respect boundaries of others too. Together we can help boost necessary skills for maintaining boundaries – like working on impulse control, self-confidence, and communication skills. And we can help remind kids and teens that setting, communicating, and maintaining boundaries is a lifelong process.
Host a “First Talk” workshop in-person or virtually.
Throughout the year, the Erin Levitas Foundation facilitates prevention workshops for various groups and communities. These workshops give you and your community the chance to learn more about how prevention works and practice protective skills.
Join one or host one in your community. Topics include:
- Starting protective conversations
- Understanding boundaries
- Being a safe, trusted adult / listening to children
- Including grandparents in prevention conversations
- Setting a healthy example
When you buy a book we donate a book
You can order your hardcover book, or download the Ebook. Both are available in English or Spanish.
For every book that is purchased, a book is donated to a family or child in need.
Hardcover – $17.99
Ebook – $4.99
We do not want cost to EVER be a barrier to getting these important conversations into parents’ hands. If you know of someone who is in need, or a community group that would benefit from the book please contact us and we will coordinate with you to make that happen.
The Erin Levitas Foundation is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization.
This is the best book I’ve ever purchased for my child. I feel so much better knowing how to have these difficult conversations with him. I wouldn’t have thought to have them this early!
Erika, mom of 2 from Baltimore
Every Body Talk is a lifesaver. We learn “stop, drop and roll” in school, but we are rarely taught about child sexual abuse or body safety. This book offers the opportunity to discuss a really heavy topic in a none-threatening, easy to understand way.
Lindsay Thomason, CEO The Nanny League, Inc.