Notes from Connie
Summer 2011
Safety Proofing Children – Workshop
for Teachers & Parents
Last night I gave a workshop presentation at Kiddy Academy in
Windham NH for parents and teachers on
“Safety Proofing Children.”
It was nice to get out and
listen to the concerns of parents and educators & come up
with some solutions – everyone agreed that protecting children is a
family and
community effort.
Our society puts a big downbeat on strangers as the molester,
abductors.
The truth is only 4% of children are molested by strangers.
Child sexual abuse is an epidemic. 96% of children who are abused
are abused by people they know:
Family, friends, neighbors, teachers,
coaches, clergy: People we trust.
Protecting
children means listening to them, using caution about who we leave
them with & trusting our gut. If our emotional body tells us someone
is creepy – they probably are.
It is tragic when a child is abducted. I cannot think of a more
horrific experience then to go to bed, not knowing where my child
is. Yet tragically, strangers are not the greatest danger. Learn to
spot the signs and red flags that can save your child from abuse.
Thanks to Heather Olsen our audio – visual part of the presentation
went off in great style.
Now booking workshops for late summer,
early fall.
432-0581
Marcel & Connie are members of
USAP: United States Association of Body Psychotherapists -
