My Body! What I Say Goes! (2nd Edition)
by Jayneen Sanders
A no a four-year-old can say out loud.
For you if
you want your four-year-old to have the real words before anyone else supplies them
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This picture book gives young kids the real names for their body parts and a sentence they can say out loud: this is my body, and what I say goes. Sanders walks through safe and unsafe feelings, the difference between a secret and a surprise, and who to tell when something feels wrong. It teaches the earliest and plainest layer of consent, which is that a child gets to decide who touches them. Discussion questions give the grown-up something to say next.
Where This Book Lives
Publisher age range is 3 to 10.
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