Forget "Stranger Danger” - Teach Your Kids These Sexual Abuse Safety Tools
After Bedtime with Big Little Feelings
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🗓️ 8 April 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Trigger Warning: This episode discusses childhood sexual abuse. We share this with care, but please listen at your own pace and take care of yourself.
Deep breath, friends. This is one of THOSE episodes - the kind that feels a little heavy, a little scary, but is incredibly important, because the tools here could change your kid’s life. In this episode, I (Deena) am sharing my own experience with sexual abuse as a child. Not to scare you, but to give you something I didn’t have back then: Clear, practical tools to help keep your kids safer.
Because the uncomfortable reality is that sexual abuse doesn’t usually look like a stranger in a dark alley. It often happens between kids, between peers or people you know, in familiar places. And most kids don’t tell, because they’re confused, don’t have the language, or think they’ll get in trouble. So instead of fear, we’re focusing on power. This episode is your “bing bang boom - here’s exactly what to do” guide. You’ll walk away with:
Concrete, simple tools you can start using TODAY
- The exact words + scripts to teach body safety in a way that feels natural (not awkward or scary)
- A clear way to explain private parts, safe vs unsafe touch, and boundaries
- How to teach your kid to say no, get out, and tell someone
- How to build a “safety team” so your child always has trusted adults
- And how to create a home where your child knows, “I can tell my parent anything, and they will help me.”
Body safety isn’t about one, big scary talk. It’s about small, everyday conversations that build kids who know their body is theirs, trust their gut, use their voice, and feel safe coming to you, no matter what. You can give your child tools, language, and confidence that dramatically increase their safety.
So take a deep breath - we’re doing this together, and it’ll be worth it, I promise.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a Dear Media production. |
| 0:05.1 | Welcome back to another episode of After Bedtime. |
| 0:08.1 | Today, I am your host. |
| 0:10.3 | It's me, Dina. |
| 0:11.6 | And we are covering a topic that is honestly really heavy, really scary to a lot of us |
| 0:17.0 | parents, but it is so, so important that we have these tools. When it comes to keeping |
| 0:23.6 | our kids safe from sexual abuse, I know, I know, that alone is a lot. This is an area where knowledge |
| 0:31.8 | really is power. I promise I will not let this feel too scary for us, and I will be giving you the exact tools and scripts that you can start using today to help keep your kids safer. |
| 0:43.8 | So deep breath, we got this. This is important. Let's get into it. |
| 0:48.6 | Welcome to after bedtime, where the house is finally quiet, but the real noise begins. The thoughts, the questions, |
| 0:56.5 | the wondering if you're doing any of this right. We're Kristen and Dina, child behavior experts, |
| 1:02.1 | moms and co-founders of big little feelings, and we're not here to give you more pressure |
| 1:06.7 | or perfect parenting energy. Nope. We're here to tell the truth, the unfiltered, beautiful, |
| 1:12.5 | brutal truth about what it means to raise kids and re-raise ourselves in the process. Because parenting |
| 1:18.7 | isn't just about sleep schedules and snack hacks. It's about healing. It's about breaking cycles. |
| 1:24.2 | It's about becoming the kind of adult you want your kids to grow up to be. This is the place |
| 1:28.9 | where we say the quiet parts out loud, and we're so glad that you're here. Okay, before we dive |
| 1:35.5 | into today's topic, let's do a little catch-up together. Am I recording this in my car? Yes. |
| 1:42.1 | Not only are my kids on spring break right now, but my husband is out of town for work, |
| 1:46.4 | so I have a double whammy going on, which means I am just cramming everything into today. |
| 1:52.5 | And so, yeah, I'm sitting in my car recording this. And that's mom life, you know, you're just, |
| 1:57.0 | you're doing it all, somehow making it work. I have to say though, with my husband being gone, |
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