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It aims to provide children with essential skills in self-protection from sexual interference. Children need to understand that from a very young age they have rights in relation to their bodies, ...
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Some Secrets Should Never Be Kept is a story about a little boy who is sexually interfered with by an authority figure. This is his story and relates how he finds ...
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In all honesty, as a teacher, school councillor and mother, I was angry and frustrated that when I bought up the topic of what are we doing to protect our children ...
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I see Some Secrets Should Never Be Kept being used mainly in two situations. 1. By parents or carers when they feel their child is ready to hear the ...
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Some Secrets Should Never Be Kept can be read by any age group. However, I wrote the book with quite young children in mind, as they are the most vulnerable to ...
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As much as you think sexual interference doesn’t happen in your family, or amongst your friends or in your community, it actually can and does. It happens a lot! The Australian ...
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I ran into two main problems. The first was finding a publisher and the second was finding an illustrator. I have worked in children’s publishing for half of my ...
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My greatest challenge was devising a text that was not confronting and off putting. For the book to be of any value, parents would have to feel comfortable reading it to ...
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I have a number of friends currently teaching in primary schools who have told me that while they would love to use Some Secrets Should Never Be Kept in their classrooms, ...
