Body Safety for Kids Conversation Guide

Help children understand their bodies and feel confident setting boundaries.

Body safety education helps children recognize appropriate and inappropriate behavior, understand personal boundaries, and know when and how to speak up, building awareness, trust, and clear communication between children and the adults who care for them. This conversation guide is a companion to My Body Belongs to Me by Jill Starishevsky. Both the children’s book and the guide are designed to support parents, educators, and caregivers as they talk with children about body boundaries in age-appropriate, respectful ways.

The guide helps adults

• use stories and everyday moments to start and revisit body safety conversations
• teach correct body-part terms and reinforce the rule of “no secrets”
• help children identify trusted adults and practice what to do if something feels uncomfortable.

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