Private parts: a social story

Body safety conversations can be clear, empowering, and made age-appropriate. Building an understanding of boundaries helps strengthen a child’s confidence to speak up.

Start them young

Body boundaries need to be clearly taught. This knowledge builds safety, autonomy, and protection.

Boundaries, body ownership, and privacy

Explicitly teaching body ownership and privacy rules helps children understand boundaries in a concrete, developmentally appropriate way.

Reinforcing self-advocacy and help-seeking

Teaching assertive communication and help-seeking behaviours is paramount to promote child safety and self-advocacy.

Teaching body safety can feel daunting—but avoiding it leaves children without the tools they need to stay safe. This social story helps caregivers approach the topic with clarity, confidence, and empowerment.

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DISCLAIMER:

These social story resources were tailor-made for real clients. They were used as free supplementary aids intended to reinforce strategies developed for a specific challenge, such as toileting, personal space, social greetings, new experiences, or co-parenting, among others.

To maximise the material’s relevance to the child, some social stories use trademarked characters. These characters were utilised based on pop culture references that the client was most interested in at the time the programme was being implemented. We don’t hold ownership nor claim affinity to such trademarked characters nor their rightful owners. ​

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