Ep 96: 1 report of child sexual abuse every 2 weeks is reported in Quebec daycares

Host: Cindy Hovington

GUEST: Jayneen Sanders

Jayneen Sanders (aka Jay Dale) is an experienced early years educator, author, publisher, and blogger. Jayneen writes children’s books on Body Safety, consent, gender equality, respectful relationships, and social and emotional intelligence. She believes empowering children from an early age makes for empowered teenagers and adults.

Jayneen is Lead Author for the children’s literacy series ‘Engage Literacy’ published by Capstone Classroom and has written over 130 titles for that series.

Jayneen is importantly a mother of three daughters and has always advocated for their empowerment. Her ongoing passion for the safety and empowerment of children continues today with new manuscripts and free-to-download resources always in the wings. Jayneen’s work can be found at www.e2epublishing.info and on Amazon.

Summary

Content warning: Sexual abuse

We need to talk about this. We need to learn how to protect our children from sexual predictors.
I reached out to author Jayneen Sanders to learn more about what we can do to protect our kids.
Here is what we discussed:

Questions you should ask your daycare about how they teach kids body safety (all daycare should!)
We revisit parts of our last conversation about teaching our own kid’s body safety
We discuss body safety programs in schools
We chat about signs a child is being sexually abused at home
How to create a safe space for your child to come to you if they have been sexually abused and how you can support them