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The Safe Child Book: A Common Sense Approach to Protecting Children and Teaching Children to Protect Themselves

The daily headlines and public announcements from milk cartons to school posters are a constant reminder of the violence and abuse perpetrated against children in today's world. Parents worry about abduction and abuse in child care settings and want to do everything possible to provide a safe and nurturing environment for their children. But the real challenge is achieving a balance between maintaining parental control and teaching children to be independent, all the while ensuring their safety. For concerned parents comes Sherryll Kraizer's: The Safe Child Book: A Common Sense Approach to Protecting Children and Teaching Children to Protect Themselves (Fireside Books/A Simon and Schuster Trade Paperback Original; August 28, 1994; $11.00).

Kraizer is the creator of The Safe Child Program, a curriculum used in schools around the world to teach personal safety to children and families. Kraizer's method builds on the concept that children who have been taught to think for themselves are the safety children of all. She addresses parents in a straight forward manner without scare tactics or jargon and focuses her advice on protecting children form the ages of three through sixteen.

The Safe Child Book contains a wealth of information for parents on areas including:

• prevention of sexual abuse by people known to the child
• safety around strangers
• playing the What If... Game
• safety when home alone
• safety in situations without supervision
• dealing with bullies
• safety on the Internet
• safety in your school
• choosing child care
• parents as advocates

Presented in a clear and easy to apply manner, Dr. Kraizer offers positive, concrete safety techniques that parents will feel comfortable using with their children without creating and atmosphere of paranoia or anxiety.

 

Copyright © 1996-2008 Coalition for Children, Inc., Sherryll Kraizer, Ph.D.