Tips for helping your child thrive at family gatherings

Family gatherings are such an important part of keeping extended families connected. While they can be a lot of fun for the adults, they can bring about different emotions for children.

Family gatherings can be overwhelming for kids.

They’re full of family members who are really strangers, interrupted routines, loud voices, and unfamiliar places.

Please allow children to stay with their parents if they are feeling uncomfortable or scared. Don’t expect them to run to others with open arms or want to kiss and be held by every family member. Allow them to set their own boundaries and help them to keep those boundaries maintained.

By allowing your children to set their own boundaries you are teaching them that they are the boss of their own bodies. That’s a lesson that you’ll want them to have learned before they hit their teenage years.

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Talking to kids about appropriate and inappropriate touching can be hard. If you don’t know where to start, start here.

Sexual abuse in children occurs more often than we’d like to think. Talking to your kids about the difference between appropriate and inappropriate touching is crucial. How do you talk to your children about appropriate and inappropriate touching? You start here…

Click here to read about how to set up a password for safety with your child

There may be times you aren’t able to be there to pick up your kids. Set up a password so they know how to determine if someone is a safe person with whom to leave.

Here are some children’s books that are excellent resources to help you extend this conversation with your kids. (in no particular order)

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NO Trespassing – This Is MY Body!
by Pattie Fitzgerald