Preschool Sex Ed Curriculum

[CellarDoor]

Hope I got your attention

We are discussing if and how we might incorporate a sexual abuse prevention curriculum at my dd's preschool (ages 3-5 and change). Does anything exist out there? I've read "Protecting the Gift" which was very helpful (need to read it again), but I'm hoping there's more info out in the world to draw from, show parents and teachers, etc.

It's a non-religious, very progressive co-op preschool.

Thanks!

[One_Girl]

Talking about Touching curricullum is used by Head Start and I liked it a lot. It covers a lot of different scenarios with discussion formats.

[Tigerchild]

If there is a Unitarian Universalist or a United Churches of Christ church in your neighborhood, you might want to call them up and ask if you can speak to one of their K-1 Our Whole Lives (called OWL) facilitators. In the K-1 group they do talk about how babies are made, but there is a lot of body integrity as well. I bet they could hook you up with some good resources about the specific areas you want to discuss!

UU is religious but not Christian in practice. UCC is a liberal Christian denomination. You wouldn't be able to use their curriculum, probably, but often churches that offer k-1 OWL are well connected with other resources for parents and other groups.

[ecky]

you might want to check in with your local rape crisis center. i used to work for a rape crisis center in NH as an educator. my job was to go to schools and talk to kids about sexual abuse - among other stuff. we had a fantastic program with puppets that we did for kindergartners and some preschools. your local center might have an education program as well.

just a thought!

[Momily]

Our local rape crisis clinic comes in and does Good Touch/Bad Touch with all of our students -- PreK through 8th. I've only seen the little kid lessons but I really like them, very developmentally appropriate.

Another thing I'd do is have some animal reproduction going on in the classroom. I think that one thing we can do to help kids feel comfortable with talking about sex, is by normalizing reproduction and life cycles -- raising baby guinea pigs, hatching cecropeia moths (if you get lucky and have a male and female come at the same time, they'll mate and you'll get a giant litter of caterpillars!), etc . . can be a great way to introduce reproduction in a fun, age appropriate way.