My Body! What I Say Goes!: A book to empower and teach children about personal body safety, feelings, safe and unsafe touch, private parts, secrets and surprises, consent, and respectful relationships

This book tells a clear message about privacy that is appropriate for early elementary kids. It helps teach personal safety. It helped me communicate a very important message to my son.

My 3-year-old is about to start daycare, so I bought this book to teach her about body boundaries. It’s written well, however, I do feel like it’s still a little advanced for her. She’s very smart, but doesn’t quite grasp the concepts yet. I think this would be great for 5 years+!

This is a cute, informative book. But i will say, it's for older kids- like 7+. I read it was for 4+, and my daughter didn't have a clue what was going on when i was reading it.

My 3 year old understood most of it well! He actually loves it and asks me to read it all the time. I think it’s age appropriate and you can adjust the language a little so your child can understand it better but it gives you a great outline to start that conversation with your child.

This is a great book for toddlers to help explain some things about their body to them in a way that they can grasp and understand. My daughter was 3.5 at the time that I purchased this book. It helped me explain a little bit about her body and her "private parts". She is in daycare where they have regular public-like restrooms but no doors on the stalls. They originally start out (at the age of 2) potty training in one bathroom with the entire class; boys and girls together. She, of course, started noticing differences between boys and girls. She also needed to learn how and why to be a bit more discreet as she got older with using these restrooms on a daily basis. She i snow 5 and she still asks me to read this book to her.

Bought this for a grandchild about to enter kindergarten and the wide world. Colorful, simple to understand, and a great way to begin the sometimes uncomfortable conversations about inappropriate touching, etc.

Wonderful book. Have already recommended it to friends. The book opens up by describing different feelings one has and signs of those feelings. For example: when you are happy you may want to smile and play and dance and when you are sad you may want to cry; it's okay to cry- that's why we have tears. This leads to describing to feeling of being unsafe. The author lists examples of when one may feel unsafe (example: I felt unsafe when my aunts dog barked at me. I felt unsafe when someone stood to close to me and I did not want them to, etc). The book mentions what our body may experience when we are feeling unsafe (sweating, wanting to cry, needing to use the bathroom, etc) and says that we may experience all or just one of these signs when we are feeling unsafe. The book then describes a safety network and how it is important that we always talk to someone in our safety network when we are feeling unsafe. Then the reader goes on to hear about what private parts are, their importance of calling them by their correct names, and how no one ever touches yours or ask to look at yours, shows or asked you to touch theirs, or shows you pictures. The book talks about the importance of consent and personal boundaries. I believe the book was written to give children knowledge, confidence, and is written in ways for them to understand. I also liked the pages at the end of the book written for the parents.

Love the simplicity and the easy progression of this book. Goes over safety and how to safeguard your self and your home from harm dealing with private parts. Purchase this and you will love it. Worth every single penny

My son loves this book and quotes it daily. Relatable for children and gets a good conversation started about safe people in your network, right and wrong secrets, etc.

Our son's kila (preschool) had a rash of inappropriate body play start up. In an effort to teach our son correct boundaries, we started discussing body autonomy and safety at home, and we purchased this (and another book) as learning aids. We were pleased to see that the book does not impose prudish, overly strict or religiously-based morals: it simply discusses what is appropriate, what is safe, and how to identify if something might not be safe so that the child can take appropriate actions. My son immediately understood what the book was trying to say, and has been able to help other children in his school group as well.We also ended up bringing this book to his school, where it was used with the entire class. The teachers there said the book was great and were very grateful for the resource.I highly recommend this book if you've got a 3-5yo who needs age appropriate instruction on these topics.

This book not only encourages healthy communication between you and your child (there’s little question for you to ask them throughout the book) it provides them with the most important tools to set them up for life.To be able to keep their minds and bodies safe.To be able to understand what they’re feeling and that it’s ok!Prevents them from suppressing their emotions and it prompts them to speak up and advocate for them selves.Kudos to the author.This will safe so many children from the hands of the wrong people.

This is a very important book which must be explained and read with children. I read with my 6 year old. It is easy to understand. And gets the point accross.

A must have for every child, extremely clear and easy to get, this book allows us to talk about uncomfortable subjects and open a healthy dialogue. I read it with my 4, 7 and 9 year olds, and they all really appreciated it (my 4 year old and the big ones didn't get the same benefits, obviously...). I plan to keep re opening it every now and then!