Over 100 Articles: How To Build Confidence,
Create Safety, and Stop Bullying, Abuse, and Violence
Life is more fun when we feel safe! Our free articles describe how to apply People Safety knowledge and skills to make daily life more fun and more safe for your family, school, organization, workplace, and community. People Safety skills help prepare you and your loved ones to develop stronger relationships, increase your confidence, and take charge of your emotional and physical safety. Our materials also show how to protect children and teens from most bullying, abuse, kidnapping, and other violence as well as how to use Kidpower’s Successful Practice teaching method for rehearsing skills in an upbeat practical way.
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| Protecting Children With Disabilities and People of All Ages with Special Needs From Bullying, Abuse, and Other Violence |
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Children and Youth
Adult Leadership to Keep Kids Safe
- Most Teachers Are Heroes! 9 Ways Parents Can Support Teachers In Building Safe, Positive Learning Environments
- An Educator’s Perspective on Teaching Child Safety
- Balancing Independence with Safety: Kidpower Response to Free Range Kids
- Bullying in Sports: People Safety For Children’s Coaches
- Child Safety: Kids Often Talk When Adults Really Listen
- CollegePower for Parents: Promoting Your College Student’s Independence, Safety, and Wisdom
- Create Emotional Safety: Be a Powerful Positive Adult Leader
- Helping Children Regain Their Emotional Safety After a Tragedy
- How to Intervene: The Safety of Kids is Everybody’s Business
- Kidpower Answers: What if Getting Help Is “Against the Rules”?
- Kidpower Safety Tips: Gun Violence at School
- Kidpower Skills for Health Care Providers
- Men as Allies to Children
- Personal Safety for Children Through Positive Practice of Skills
- Preparing Kids for More Independence
- Resisting the “Illusion of Safety”
- Stopping Emotional Pollution for Children
- Teaching Children How to Get Help – Seven Steps from Kidpower
- What Adults Need to Know About Personal Safety for Children
- What is People Safety?
- Worthy of Trust: What Organizations Must Do to Protect Children From Harm
Starting Early: “People Safety” for Very Young Children
- Choosing Safe People to Care for Your Children
- Kidpower Answers for Parents of Small Children
- Managing Aggressive Behavior in Young Children:7 Positive Strategies from Kidpower for Preventing Meltdowns
- Making a Safety Plan for Bathroom Accidents
- Not Even for a Second! A Story About Kidpower’s Underlying Principle
- People Safety for Toddlers: Self-Protection Tips for Young Children
- “But WHY is this the Safety Rule?” – Kidpower Answers for Adults with Younger Children
Everyday Safety Plans and Skills for Children of All Abilities
- How to Practice Kidpower Every Day!
- How to Tell When a Child is Ready for More Freedom or New Privileges
- Internet Safety
- Kidpower Safety Plans for Children with Disabilities
- Kidpower Safety Tips for Parents
- Kidpower Safety Tips: Gun Violence at School
- Safety Plans for Families with Special Needs
- Safety Plans for Preparing Children to Do Things that Make Adults Worried
- Safety With Animals
- Starting School ~ The Kidpower Way
- Teaching Children Persistence to Build Their People Safety Skills
- Teaching Children the Skill of Confidence
- What If I Get Lost? – Kidpower Skills to Prepare Children to Get Help
Bullying Prevention
- Acting Friendly or Truly Being Your Friend? – How to Tell the Difference
- Addressing Cyber-Bullying
- Bullying – Common Questions and Answers From Kidpower
- Bullying and Homophobia: Addressing Identity-Based Attacks While Respecting Different Beliefs
- Bullying Facts and Solutions: Upsetting Statistics and 4 Actions You Can Take
- Bullying in Schools: Seven Solutions for Parents From Kidpower
- Bullying in Sports: People Safety For Children’s Coaches
- Bullying, Violence, and Abuse Prevention in Schools: Recommended Actions and Policies
- Bullying: What Do Kids Say?
- Face Bullying With Confidence: 8 Skills Kids Can Use Right Away
- Practice as a Management Tool for Unsafe, Disrespectful Behavior
- Proclamation, Action Plan, and Policies To Create a United Front Against Bullying
- Reader’s Question: Just Let Them Work it Out?
- Shunning and Exclusion: Kidpower Skills for Protecting Children From Relational Bullying
- Speaking Up About Putdowns
- Three Strategies to Prevent Bullying From Killing More Kids
- Turning Bullying Prevention Policies Into Powerful Action
- What Adults Need to Know About Personal Safety for Children
- What if My Child Is Bullying?
Child Abuse Prevention
- Best Friends and Mistakes – A Teaching Story From Kidpower
- How Can I Avoid Being Accused of Abuse? Six Guidelines from Kidpower
- Kidpower Safety Tips: Protecting Children from Sexual Abuse
- Safe and Unsafe Bribes
- Sometimes the People Kids Love Have Problems: What Children Do and Do NOT Need to Know
- Four Strategies for Protecting Kids from Sexual Predators
- Touch in Healthy Relationships
- What Adults Need to Know About Personal Safety for Children
- A Sex Offender Is Living in Our Neighborhood! HELP! Five Kidpower Tips to Protect Your Family
- What if My Young Child Has Seen an Inappropriate Website?
- What Kinds of Secrets Are Okay for Children to Keep – And What Kinds Are Not?
- Why Affection and Teasing Should Be a Child’s Choice
Kidnapping Prevention and Stranger Safety
- How to Pick a Good Self-Defense Program
- Jaycee Dugard – What Might Have Helped to Protect Her?
- Just in Case: What Children Need to Know if They Cannot Get Away at First
- Kidnapping – What We CAN DO to Keep Our Kids Safe!
- Kidpower Safety Tips: Protecting Children from Stranger Abduction/Kidnapping
- Strangers At School: Tools to Build Understanding
- Teaching Kids to Be Safe Without Making Them Scared: Tips for Safety with Strangers and People Children Know
- Teaching Stranger Safety ~ The Kidpower Way
- A Sex Offender Is Living in Our Neighborhood! HELP! Five Kidpower Tips to Protect Your Family
Planning for Safety During Holidays, Vacations, and Special Events
- Halloween Safety ~ The Kidpower Way: A Grab Bag of Safety Treats and Tricks for Your Family!
- Holiday Boundaries: Protecting Children’s Boundaries and Helping Others Do the Same
- How Can I Help my Child with Moving Anxiety? Helping Children Deal with Upset Feelings Moving to a New Community
- Safety Plans for Preparing Children to Do Things that Make Adults Worried
- Summer Safety: Kidpower Tips for Families
Teens and Adults
Boundary-Setting and Communication Skills
- Assertive Advocacy: Skills Help Prevent Violence and Increase Personal Safety
- Boundary-Lowering Tactics to Understand
- Caring Men Who Say Women Are Weaker
- Conflict Resolution by Backing Up to Go Forward
- Conscious Apologies
- Customer Power: Dealing with Rude Salespeople
- Emailing Angry: Think Before You Hit Send
- Five Communication Strategies I Already Know – But Forget to Use
- Fullpower Boundaries for Adults with People We Know
- Integrity in Communication
- Staying Safe While Helping Others
- Suicide Prevention Success Story – The Opposite of Cyber-Bullying
- Taking Charge of the Wishing Technique
- Teenpower Boundaries for People You Know
- Use Email with Care and Wisdom
Personal Safety for Different Ages, Cultures, and Problems
- Addressing Cultural Issues in Teaching People Safety
- Chopped Broccoli! Lessons About Safety from People With Mental Health Challenges
- Generous Gratitude: The Art of Giving Thanks
- Handling Panhandling So Pandhandlers Won’t Handle You!
- Holiday Power: Take Charge of Emotional Safety During the Holidays
- People Safety Skills for Seniors
- People Safety Tools for Protecting Sexual Safety for Teens and Adults
- Personal Safety to Help Stop Domestic Violence
- Road Rage – Five Tips for Staying Safe!
- Travel Safety Tips: Ideas for planning and enjoying trips so the risk of assault, injury, or other emergency is reduced
- Workplace Violence Prevention
Teen Safety Issues, Strategies, and Skills
- Balancing Independence with Safety: Kidpower Response to Free Range Kids
- CollegePower for Parents: Promoting Your College Student’s Independence, Safety, and Wisdom
- Make Safety and Respect the Way it Is
- Overcoming the Bystander Effect: Kidpower Response to Richmond High School Assault
- People Safety Tools for Protecting Sexual Safety for Teens and Adults
- Stopping Sexual Harassment in Schools
- Substance Abuse Prevention
- Teenpower Boundaries for People You Know
- Tobacco Refusal Tactics
- “People Safety” Skills for New Teen Drivers and Their Teen Passengers
Emotional Safety for Teens and Adults
- Believe in Yourself ~ The Foundation of Personal Safety: Self-Defense, Boundary-Setting, and Awareness Skills
- Dealing with Economic Uncertainty: The Kidpower Way
- How to Make Family Gatherings Great Instead of Awful
- “Mean” Adults?? – Five Kidpower Skills to Address Adult-to-Adult Bullying
- Personal Safety and Online Resources ~ Check the Source
- Protecting Ourselves From Negative Beliefs
- Round Like a Full Moon
- Sexual Harassment: Another Kind of Pollution
- Staying Calm Under Pressure
- True Safety for Women: A Response to Fearful Messages
- Unsafe Words We Use On Ourselves
Workplace Communication and Self-Protection Skills
- Assertive Advocacy: Skills Help Prevent Violence and Increase Personal Safety
- Conflict Resolution by Backing Up to Go Forward
- Conscious Apologies
- Emailing Angry: Think Before You Hit Send
- Fullpower Boundaries for Adults with People We Know
- Integrity in Communication
- Sexual Harassment: Another Kind of Pollution
- Speaking Up About Putdowns
- Staying Calm Under Pressure
- Taking Charge of the Wishing Technique
- Workplace Violence Prevention
- “Mean” Adults?? – Five Kidpower Skills to Address Adult-to-Adult Bullying
Self-Protection and Self-Defense in the Face of a Threat or Assault
- Combating Street Harassment – Thoughts from a Veteran
- Date-Rape Drugs: How to Protect Yourself
- How to Pick a Good Self-Defense Program
- Kidpower Safety Tips: Gun Violence at School
- Kidpower Safety Tips: Protecting Yourself from Sexual Assault
- Preventing an Attack by Staying Focused on Making Safe Choices: A Fullpower Success Story
- Protect Yourself From a Threat: How to Sound and Look Like You Believe what You Are Saying
- Protect Yourself From an Attack: Resistance Works Most of the Time
- Reader’s Question: Won’t walking away make me look weak?
- Self-Defense for Men: Tips for Avoiding, De-escalating, Escaping Potentially Dangerous Situations
- Stalking: How To Protect Yourself
- Stopping Sexual Harassment in Schools
- Target Denial by Finding the Door to Safety
- The Courage NOT to Fight: Using Target Denial to Be Safe
- Violence Prevention by Getting Help: Prevent, Avoid, De-escalate Potentially Violent Situations by Taking Charge
The Foundation of Personal Safety
- Intuition ~ Trust Its Wisdom
- Make Fear Your Friend, not Your Jailer
- Seven Keys to Personal Safety: Key Points that Can Help You Stay Safe Most of the Time
- We Each Have Our OWN Kind of Beauty
- What is People Safety?
- What is the Fullpower Course Like?
- Why Bother Learning About Safety?
- CollegePower – Take Charge of Your Own Safety
People of All Ages With Special Needs and Disabilities
- Introducing the Kidpower Safety Signs
- Kidpower Safety Plans for Children with Disabilities
- Managing Wandering for People with Autism
- Self-Protection for People with Disabilities
- Unlimited Adaptability: Teaching “People Safety” Skills to Individuals with Different Abilities
Frightening News Events
- “Stranger Danger” in the News: Building Awareness and Confidence Instead of Fear
- Answers to Common Questions About Violent Attacks: Response to Northern Illinois University Shooting
- Answers to Some Scary What-If Questions About School Shootings: Kidpower Response to Virginia Tech Tragedy
- Helping Children Regain Their Emotional Safety After a Tragedy
- Just in Case: What Children Need to Know if They Cannot Get Away at First
- Safety Comes From Inside Ourselves: Kidpower Article About September 11, 2011
- School Shootings: How to Empower Kids in the Face of Armed School Violence
- Tools to Empower Children to Explore Their World with Safety & Confidence: Kidpower Response to the Sandra Cantu Kidnapping Tragedy
- Violence Against Children in the News: What Adults Need to Do and Say