Let's Talk About Body Boundaries, Consent and Respect: Teach children about body ownership, respect, feelings, choices and recognizing bullying behaviors Paperback – November 10, 2017

Growing up I remember hating to give hugs and kisses to family, most of whom I only saw a few times a year — so they were essentially strangers. To this day, I dislike affection outside of a few select people. As an adult now, who is a proud auntie to my besties two boys, I wanted to gift them something that I hope will help them remain safe and know that they're allowed to have their own autonomy.Before purchasing this book I asked to make sure it was okay, considering the content the material covers it's a parental subject matter — although, it's done in a very age appropriate manner! My bestie LOVES this book, she thinks it's absolutely fantastic for introducing consent and boundaries to children — her husband who was skeptical at first is also pleased, which is awesome!Well done. Highly recommend.

I'm coming here tonight shaken as I leave this review because incident that just happened with my daughter. First, to preface, I read 'let's talk about body boundaries, consent, and respect' with my children after ordering it on Amazon 3 months ago. Today after picking them up from summer camp, my 5 year old daughter told me that a camp counselor was being overly touchy despite her telling them to STOP and that she told the counselor that her mommy got her a body bubble book and they weren't respecting her body boundaries. I'm equally floored at the creepy counselor (I'm reporting them immediately) and beyond impressed that my FIVE year old was able to know something was wrong and tell me so that I could step in ASAP. I'm so scared to think of what could have happened had this behavior continued without me knowing. My daughter said she saw the counselor doing it to another kid and my daughter spoke up and said "you're in their body bubble" and the kid began to loudly agree saying "yeah, you are! Get out of my bubble!" What impresses me about this book is that- while it's everything I've always tried to teach my children on my own- what happened today at camp and my daughter's response tells me that it was the book that was able to resonate with her in a way that was way more impactful than anything I've done, because she immediately brought up the book to the creepy counselor and her friends at camp, hopefully that shut the creep down long enough until my daughter could come home and tell me what happened. I'm going directly to the camp in the morning to report this POS and, as a "just in case" I'm bringing money for bail.

I really like this book… it is a long read and you need to break it up in chunks. The illustrations and dialogue are great.I think this is age appropriate for any child entering school between K-5.What I really like about this book, it asks the reader questions about what someone might be feeling in the picture. It engages them think about what body language they are seeing and what might the person may be feeling. It’s helps them recognize body language. The material does exactly what the title says… which is body boundaries and consent.It gives a realistic image of our boundaries and how we might feel if someone disrespects those boundaries and how we should respond to others when those boundaries are broken. I’ve just recommend this book to a therapist who works with young children.The only thing it doesn’t touch base on is cultural differences and how some cultures hug or kiss and what the differences are, and just reading body language.Realistically our kids aren’t always going to ask for consent and what are natural instincts, that natural instinct to give a hug, this is a perfect teaching moment explaining and learning how to read body language.Also… this book isn’t meant for you to just hand to a child and expect them to just get the material, the material can be complex but yet age appropriate. Its an interactive book that teaches about boundaries, consent and being respectful.

This book is great for children in 5th grade and younger. It teaches about boundaries and what they can do if they feel their boundaries are being violated by anyone. It teaches them what consent means and what it looks like when those are being violated by another person, and it teaches them respect. There’s absolutely nothing sexual about this book, it doesn’t over share and it’s so simply worded that they can understand it.

I got this to help my child understand, and I definitely think it was a good book. Just enough explaining in it.

This book is amazing! I wish my daughter liked it more but I think it’s because she hates anything she sees as a “lesson” 😂 it covers body boundaries good/bad touching and whatnot. I highly recommend reading to any kiddo who struggles with this whether it be because of spectrum issues or just being young and not knowing yet what body boundaries are.Pros:great lessons!Cons: long and doesn’t hold attn well for small kids. I recommend cutting it down and doing sections at a time like a chapter book if needed