Stay up to date with our most recent news and resources!
Kidpower’s most recent news and resources!
Stay up to date with our most recent news and resources!
Hartelijk Gefeliciteerd! – Sharing a Dutch family tradition Please celebrate my 68th birthday by making life better for those you love
Join the “party” – teach everyone important to you a safety skill, make SURE they KNOW you care about their well-being, help to increase their understanding about how to protect themselves from harm and get along better with each other, and be fully in the moment so you can enjoy your time together.
Advice for a Worried Mom Whose Young Son Climbed Out of Her Reach
We recently got the following message from a worried mother who has given us permission to share her story. We took one of your classes...
Make the Kidpower Protection Promise to help stop child abuse, relationship violence, and bullying
Honor April as Child Abuse Prevention Month by making SURE kids know you care. Discuss the Kidpower Protection Promise with each young person in your life.
Empowering Every Person’s Well Being – Reach West Radio Show Interview About Kidpower
This interview on Kevin Grossman’s Reach West Radio Show with Kidpower Founder Irene van der Zande describes Kidpower’s “effective stretch” in seeking to empower the well being of every person on our planet – while keeping our quality high as we grow.
Stopping Negativity from Diminishing Our Lives
The lessons learned with the help of many wonderful people are the basis of many of the Kidpower emotional safety, boundary-setting, conflict resolution, and positive communication skills we teach.
WOW! Over 4 Million Served!
Kidpower has served over 4 MILLION people through our workshops, partnerships with other organizations, and educational resources like our books and articles. With your help, people all over the world are using Kidpower to make children, teens, and adults in their families, schools, organizations, workplaces, and communities safer, happier, and stronger.
How to Have More Fun and Fewer Problems during the Holiday Season
Kids and adults alike benefit from being able to speak up instead of suffering through intrusive games, conversations, affection, and other pressures that often become issues during the holidays.
5 Recommendations to Help a Child Recover From Severe Bullying
Five recommendations from Kidpower to help parents and other caring adults support a child who has been severely bullied to recover, to get support for their own upset feelings, and to protect their child from further bullying.
Double Your Donations to Kidpower on #GivingTuesday!
#GT All Gifts Matched Today! Kick off your holiday giving season with a charitable gift to Kidpower today, on #GivingTuesday, and it will be MATCHED dollar-for-dollar!
Fears about School Shootings and Lockdown Drills – Kidpower Recommendations and Resources
7 actions you can take to address fears about school shootings and lockdown drills in ways that create emotional safety for children. Addressing questions like: What is the best way to protect our kids from school shootings? How can we keep them emotionally safe in the face of news about kids getting killed at school and about bomb and shooting threats at schools? How can we explain to them about lockdown drills?
Lily’s Homecoming Day – A Heart Power Success Story about Our Family
At Kidpower, we teach that Heart Power can be used to take kindness into your heart, protect your heart from harmful messages, and use your heart to connect with and be compassionate towards others. Here’s how Heart Power helped my elderly mother to heal her emotional heart and united our family and friends to overcome many obstacles to bring her home.
Keeping Halloween FUN for Kids Kidpower safety tips and tricks!
One thing we at Kidpower have learned over the years as parents and teachers ourselves is that for Halloween to be fun – we have to KNOW OUR AUDIENCE and PLAN AHEAD. None of the young kids we know like to see R-rated murder and mayhem – so every year we scout out ahead of time our trick-or-treat route and check in with neighbors to make sure we avoid streets that kids might not want see – because it’s too scary. A little planning ahead and thought about who will be experiencing your Halloween displays, costumes, and celebrations, can go a long way to making Halloween fun and safe for the kids and adults in your lives!
Taking charge of your beliefs about YOU
At Kidpower, we teach that our beliefs in ourselves as being powerful, capable, and valuable people are the most important self-protection and emotional safety tools we have. Our goal is to prevent and stop experiences that diminish these positive beliefs - and to...
Teach Your Loved Ones Heart Power This Valentine’s Day!
Do you know anyone who when you share a compliment, they deflect it, dismiss it by including a “but” or give some reason why the compliment isn’t quite so? This is a habit I’ve seen in my mom, ever since my childhood. If guests complimented her on her cooking, she...
Avoid & escape an attack: learn physical self-defense skills!
We're excited to announce that, in locations where we have instructors available, we are offering some in-person physical self-defense skills training in addition to our online programs - like our online Fullpower Introduction to Physical Self-Defense Saturday,...