How To Teach Good Touch and Bad Touch To Your Child
According to the psychological fact, children are more sensitive to learn things, it can be both good and bad things. Here parents play a significant role in their children life so they should aware of all their needs and must be there for them when they need you to be there. Parents often advise their children to take care of themselves and guide them to be safe for example: eat properly, play careful, don’t use mobile phones often etc., but failed to talk about their body safety. As your child starts rising and will interrelate with other in diverse social settings, not everyone going to take care of your child like you do so you should have eyes on their behaviour and talk to them when u see any changes. Some tips help to educate your child.
How To Teach Good Touch and Bad Touch To Your Child
1.Use The Correct Language For Body Parts
Talk to your child whenever you have free time but not as serious talk. Use proper words for body parts or you can use nicknames as u would do to other body parts for example I have seen most children used to say tummy instead of saying stomach. While talking about this topic infront of your child stay normal don’t laugh or feel awkward because it could make them feel embarrassed. By showing a negative attitude towards this topic makes a child feel shame to speak out when they needed to talk.
2. Teach Children You Are The Owner of Your Body
Tell your children to take care of their body there is no better person could care as much you can do. This helps them to speak out when a neighbour or peer is doing any hurtful or try to touch them without their concern, teach them to say NO and STOP steadily and politely.
3. Talk About Good Touch and Bad Touch
Tell your children about the difference between good and bad touch. The good touch indicates safe and secured feelings which is pat on the hand or gentle hugs but when it comes to bad touch it feels like unsafe and uncomfortable feelings like hard hugs, pinching, hitting and kissing. You should make up your children to say no even if it’s close relatives or neighbours. It is okay to say stop when it hits you bad. Follow the swimsuit rule, tell them that parts which are covered by a swimsuit are called as private parts and tell your kids that they should inform when someone has tried to touch them at their private areas.
4. Talk To Them Frequently
A child needs more attention and love during their pre-schooling days. When you ask about their day in school, they tell more about each and everything that happened in their school, by keep having those conversations you could get easily into them. Keep telling them about their body safety but in a good manner.
5. Teach To Get Away From The Unsafe Place
Teach your kid to stay away from the place that makes them feel unsafe. Also, you must know that they should not be alone with that person, whoever it could be. Teach them to run away fast as much as they can or even shout loud.
Thanks for writing about such an important topic. I wish we made a society where we didn’t need to teach this to 3 Yr old, but alas.
I am so glad you wrote this post. Parents rarely discuss this openly and it is time they did. Your post should serve as helpful guide.
Sadly with each passing day, it’s becoming clearer and clearer that this is a topic that needs to be taught to children and taught early.
We must start this conversation with our kids, as early as kindergarden years. Great post
Thanks for this post, it is very informative and an important one as well.
Well, most of the kids aren’t aware of such things. It is really important for parents to sit with their kids and make them understand such basic and important things as well. Nice list of pointers. Keep spreading awareness and information. Good work.
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An important and very relevant post.
Very important topic and very important to make kids lern about these.
I am glad most of the schools are educating children on this very important topic and as a parent it is our responsibility too to guide our kids. Thanks for touching on such a vital topic.
I am so glad you chose to write on this topic. Our little ones are open to all kinds of dangers and the most scary ones come from the ones in their immediate vicinity.
This is an extremely important topic. We often underestimate children. They do understand. And teaching them right from a young age is necessary.
Teaching kids about the touch is very important. And I liked your last pointer where you explained what to do in such situations.
It is indeed important to teach the little ones the difference between the bad and the good touch…its quite scary but then as parents we need to be cautious. Thanks for writing this post!
Communication is the keyword here. Being a preschool teacher I know it’s not an easy topic to approach but if done correctly children can e explained about bad and good touch.
Very relevant, I have a suggestion since good bad is subjective maybe safe/unsafe can be used?
It’s important for kids to learn certain vital lessons at the right time.
Very important to teach children from young age on aspects like these.. Thanks for sharing important tips
This is such a relevant and necessary article and you have penned it so nicely
In today’s world , it is very very important to teach children about such sensitive issues. Your post is really helpful in respect of making young minds more aware about the dangers lurking in the society!
That is well-written post on one of the most important topics when it comes to the safety of kids.
With rise in child sexual abuse this is a much needed post for awareness. #tmmreads