My Body! What I Say Goes!: A book to empower and teach children about personal body safety, feelings, safe and unsafe touch, private parts, secrets and surprises, consent, and respectful relationships Paperback – July 1, 2016

Of any book I’ve ever gotten my toddler, I’m most happy about this one. Very educational on such an important topic that is comprehensive and age all for little ones! Grateful it exists!!!

This book tells a clear message about privacy that is appropriate for early elementary kids. It helps teach personal safety. It helped me communicate a very important message to my son.

Bought this for a grandchild about to enter kindergarten and the wide world. Colorful, simple to understand, and a great way to begin the sometimes uncomfortable conversations about inappropriate touching, etc.

Wonderful book. Have already recommended it to friends. The book opens up by describing different feelings one has and signs of those feelings. For example: when you are happy you may want to smile and play and dance and when you are sad you may want to cry; it's okay to cry- that's why we have tears. This leads to describing to feeling of being unsafe. The author lists examples of when one may feel unsafe (example: I felt unsafe when my aunts dog barked at me. I felt unsafe when someone stood to close to me and I did not want them to, etc). The book mentions what our body may experience when we are feeling unsafe (sweating, wanting to cry, needing to use the bathroom, etc) and says that we may experience all or just one of these signs when we are feeling unsafe. The book then describes a safety network and how it is important that we always talk to someone in our safety network when we are feeling unsafe. Then the reader goes on to hear about what private parts are, their importance of calling them by their correct names, and how no one ever touches yours or ask to look at yours, shows or asked you to touch theirs, or shows you pictures. The book talks about the importance of consent and personal boundaries. I believe the book was written to give children knowledge, confidence, and is written in ways for them to understand. I also liked the pages at the end of the book written for the parents.

This is a great book for toddlers to help explain some things about their body to them in a way that they can grasp and understand. My daughter was 3.5 at the time that I purchased this book. It helped me explain a little bit about her body and her "private parts". She is in daycare where they have regular public-like restrooms but no doors on the stalls. They originally start out (at the age of 2) potty training in one bathroom with the entire class; boys and girls together. She, of course, started noticing differences between boys and girls. She also needed to learn how and why to be a bit more discreet as she got older with using these restrooms on a daily basis. She i snow 5 and she still asks me to read this book to her.

This is a cute, informative book. But i will say, it's for older kids- like 7+. I read it was for 4+, and my daughter didn't have a clue what was going on when i was reading it.

My 3-year-old is about to start daycare, so I bought this book to teach her about body boundaries. It’s written well, however, I do feel like it’s still a little advanced for her. She’s very smart, but doesn’t quite grasp the concepts yet. I think this would be great for 5 years+!

This book should be a basic part of every child’s library. If it was, the world would be a safer and better place for us all! Everyone should read this book to their children regularly. This book combats abuse in our society and teaches body knowledge and respect, which protects our children from predators. It helps children identify safe people in their lives and learn to not keep things secret but to tell trusted grown ups.I’m so glad I bought this book for my daughter. And I hope everyone buys it for their sons too! Because boys need this knowledge just as much as girls. It is inclusive and written for boys and girls, which I also love.This should really be a part of everyone everywhere’s library and read frequently to young children as early as they can be read to. Adults should really learn these basic ideas too.I’ve used this book now in counseling with my clients as well. Everyone appreciates this book and is grateful for its simple concepts which make so much sense.These books could really help our world be safer if everyone would read them and practice them.