We are excited to offer a Kidpower safety skills workshop for families with young children through Outschool. This class will be appropriate for any verbal child who can, for example, enjoy story hour at the library. Because having a common understanding about safety is essential for the well being of everyone in a family, we strongly encourage that parents stay for the whole lesson, on the screen if possible, and practice the skills along with their children.  

Kidpower is recommended by experts and parents worldwide for being FUN, hands-on, experiential, effective, age-appropriate, emotionally safe, relevant for different cultures, and adapted for individual needs.

Using age-appropriate and entertaining social stories, demonstrations with puppets, and games, children and their  adults will learn and practice Kidpower skills including how to:
1. Use your Awareness Power and Move Away Power to notice and move away from trouble
2. Use your Calm Down Power, Mouth Safe Power, and Hands Down Power, so you can act safely with your body and words.
3. Protect your feelings by using your Trash Can Power to throw away hurting words and take in kindness
4. Check First with your adults before you change your plan about what you are doing, who is with you, and where you are going.
5. Understand when to wait and when to interrupt and keep asking to Get Help.
6. Understand what is and is not your choice.
7. Learn and follow the Kidpower Safety Rules about touch, games, and attention for fun, play, or affection.
8. Use your Speak Up Power to set respectful and powerful boundaries
9. Use your Listening Power to respect the boundaries of others

We will meet for 4 weeks for 45 minutes a week and cover 3 skills each session, along with an activity. The lessons will be adapted depending on questions or concerns that we hear from kids or their adults.