Blog Category: Body Safety / Talking Sex
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Keeping our children safe in childcare
Content warning: This blog touches on issues of child sexual abuse and child safety. Last ...
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Some important, awkward conversations that we need to have in our homes
Parents are our children’s first teachers and there are many conversations that they can ...
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Helping your Young Daughter Find her Sense of Self
Every child is born as a one-off, unique human being. Given genetic gifts or challenges, ...
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Time to talk puberty? Here are 10 strategies to help you get started
A guest post from Michelle Mitchell Most parents tell me that puberty wasn’t a subject ...
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Helping our girls’ voices not be silenced in today’s world
Warning: this article contains some descriptions of sexual acts. I am a child of the ...
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More concern around consent training for teens to avoid more harm
**Warning: This article contains descriptions of sexual assault.** Schools around Australia are no doubt scrambling ...
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Why we need much more than consent training in our schools to stop sexual assault
Warning: This article discusses sexual assault and uses sexual terms. Last updated: 9 Feb 2026. ...
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Please teach your sons about ‘the line in the sand’
Raising our sons to be the best expression of themselves — whether they are outgoing, ...
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Today’s parents and teens: the generation chasm
There has always been a generation gap between parents and teens. Things change from one ...
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We need to talk about the power of touch
In many ways touch has been contaminated by our fear-based world. We have let our ...
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In defence of today’s ‘helicopter’ parents
Over the last couple of months I have been blessed to have been able to ...
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Raising Awesome Teens in a Chaotic, Sexualised World
updated: 4 September 2025 with an afterword by Steve Biddulph This story in the media ...
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Being a wise, ‘wonder woman’ teen girl out and about
** updated 2021 ** As our girls get older and want to stretch their wings ...
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Keeping kids safe from unsafe people
I am writing this in response to the disturbing story of two young children who ...
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Top Tips: Resources to teach children body safety, consent & protective behaviours
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Winning the war on hugs
A recent ‘hugging ban’ in a primary school in WA has triggered quite a response ...