Keeping Ourselves Safe - Homework Discussions

Children and the people they live with should make safety rules together that will help stop children getting into unsafe situations. 

Children under the age of 14 should not be left home alone, unless adequate provision has been made for their safety. 

 Work out family safety rules with your child. 

 Review these rules often. 

 Practise what-if situations with your child – for example: What if I was late picking you up from school? 

 Praise your child when they behave in a safe way. 

Please help your child with the following activity. 

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Keeping Ourselves Safe - Homework Discussions

People who wish to harm children, whether they are known and unknown to the child, sometimes use tricks or bribes to get a child to go with them, or do what they say. If they have abused a child they may say that it is a secret and that if the child tells, something bad will happen or the child will get into trouble. 

 Help your child to tell the difference between good surprises and bad secrets. 

 Tell them that a good surprise makes people happy and it is okay to keep this kind of secret. 

 Tell them that a bad secret makes people feel sad or scared, and they need to tell an adult. 

 Tell them that they can always tell you about a bad secret. 

 Listen if they report tricks or bad secrets to you and do something to help. 

Please help your child with the following activities. 

1. Write down a good surprise. 

2. Write down a bad secret. 

Give one of the situations below to your child. Get them to role-play telling you about this. Repeat with the other situations. 

 Your friend has been playing with matches and has asked you not to tell. 

 Your cousin showed you ‘rude’ pictures and said it was a secret. 

 Someone stopped you on the way home and asked you to help look for their lost puppy. 

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Keeping Ourselves Safe - Homework Discussions

My Body

This week in Keeping Ourselves Safe we talked about how important it is for children to say “no” to touch or behaviour that worries or frightens them or makes them feel uncomfortable.

 Respect your child’s right to say “no” to touch they don’t like. 

 Don’t ask or force your child to give other people a kiss or a hug. 

 Support your child when they say “no” to touch or behaviour they don’t like. 

 Help them keep safe online. 

Please help your child with the activities below. 

Role-play each of the following situations with your child. You may prefer to make up some situations of your own. The child should respond with one of the following phrases and practise walking away. 

No, I don’t like it. 

No! 

No. I want you to stop. 

Stop it ... I don’t like it. 

Stop it – it’s not allowed. 

Situations 

Big brother or sister is teasing you. 

Mum or Dad is tickling you too hard. 

Grandma gives you a big sloppy kiss.