Episode 30: Body Safety and Abuse Prevention: Keeping Kids Safe with Feather Berkower

No One Told Us

Rachael Shepard-Ohta

Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.9 • 590 Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Episode 30: Body Safety and Abuse Prevention: Keeping Kids Safe with Feather Berkower @parentingsafechildren This week Rachael has a very important conversation with Feather Berkower, a leader and well known author in child sexual abuse prevention. Feather educates us on ways we can protect our children when we are not with them both by having tough conversations with adults and teaching them "body safety" and consent from the start. Feather emphasizes the importance of pushing through our own discomfort to have these tough conversations for the sake of our kids. The uncomfortable truth is that most of us either are survivors or know a survivor of abuse. In this necessary episode, Rachael and Feather discuss the current stats for sexual abuse (which are shocking) and how to teach children protection skills without scaring them. Feather shares what makes a child most vulnerable to abuse, and the signs to look out for that abuse may have occurred. Feather also offers tips on ways we can speak to friends and family about the values we are teaching our children in relation to body safety and how to begin having conversations around this topic at a very young age. Feather is a licensed clinical social worker who holds a Master’s of Social Welfare from the University of California, Berkeley. She has been a leader in child sexual abuse prevention since 1985 and has educated nearly one-hundred fifty thousand schoolchildren, parents and youth professionals. Her well-regarded workshop, Parenting Safe Children, empowers adults to keep children safe from sexual assault. Feather co-authored Off Limits, a parenting book that will change the way you think about keeping children safe.. Feather makes this difficult topic less scary, and consistently impresses audiences with her knowledge, commitment, and warmth. Mentioned in this episode: Join the Live Zoom Workshop for Parenting Safe Children in March & April: Sign Up here Feather’s Book: “Off Limits: A Parent’s Guide to Keeping Kids Safe from Sexual Abuse” Feather’s Instagram here Rachael is a mom of 3, founder of Hey, Sleepy Baby, and the host of this podcast. Instagram (Show page) Tiktok (Rachael's tiktok account) Show Website (transcripts available here) ** Don't forget to leave a rating and review if you enjoy this Podcast! Thank you so much! 🥰 ** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to No One Told Us, the podcast that tells the truth about parenting and talks about all the stuff you wish you knew before having kids.
0:10.5	I'm your host, Rachel, and today I'm speaking with Feather-Berkauer, a licensed clinical social worker who holds a master's of social work from the University of California, Berkeley.
0:19.4	She's been a leader in child sexual
0:21.1	abuse prevention since 1985 and has educated nearly 150,000 school children, parents, and youth
0:27.6	professionals. Feather's well-regarded workshop, parenting safe children, which I will be
0:32.0	attending in March, empowers adults and caregivers to keep children safe from sexual assault.
0:38.8	Feather also co-authored Off Limits, a parenting book that will change the way you think about keeping your children safe.
0:43.1	She makes a difficult topic of sexual abuse and assault less scary and consistently impresses
0:48.9	her audience with knowledge, commitment, and warmth. And I'm so, so excited to have you on the podcast today because this is such
0:56.3	a huge topic that I think most of us are scared to talk about. But it is so, so important. And it's
1:02.7	something that I signed up for your workshop for March. And I'm so excited. And I also wish that I had
1:08.0	signed up six years ago when I first became a mom because I feel like,
1:11.5	not that it's too late, but I just feel like this is such important information for parents
1:14.7	to know from day one. So thank you so much for being on the podcast, Heather.
1:18.9	You are so welcome. Thank you for having me. So my husband is also a licensed clinical social
1:24.7	worker. And so I'm always just so curious to hear about how you kind of
1:29.1	fell into this work, what, you know, kind of first piqued your interest about this line of work
1:34.0	and how you got into this specialty. Yeah. I'd be glad to share that and I'll make this,
1:40.6	I'll try to make this really brief. So back in the 80s, I'm a lot older than you,
1:45.5	so back in the 80s, when I was studying for my undergraduate, a BA degree, I was going for a degree
1:53.6	in women's studies and at San Francisco State University. And I had no idea what I would do with that,
2:00.2	except I wanted to work with
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