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Safeguards: Shielding Our Homes and Equipping Our Kids
Because children are vulnerable, they need to be protected. After more than two decades as a family counselor, Julie Lowe has seen how important it is to help parents and caregivers think wisely and biblically about the dangers children face. Instead of living in fear or denial, parents and caregivers can equip children to assess people and situations and model for them how to live by faith in a world where evil exists.
Lowe helps parents and caregivers teach the safety skills that will help protect their children from mistreatment, unsafe situations, violence, bullying, cyber-crimes, predatory behavior, sexting, abuse, and other kinds of danger that they might encounter. The safety skills that are needed at every stage preschool, elementary-age, teens, and college-bound are discussed and applied in an age-appropriate way.
Safeguards provides tools, skills, and resources to help when faced with uncomfortable, challenging, or dangerous situations. Instead of growing more anxious, parents and caregivers can grow in a biblical understanding of the type of dangers and issues children and young people might face, learn how to instill confidence and conviction in responding to new or fearful situations, and distinguish safe vs. unsafe people and situations.
Safety for Kids: Equipping Children to Discern Danger
Children today face many dangers, from cyberbullying to pornography, substance abuse to school shootings. Children also face dangers from within. Like all of us they also struggle with wrong desires that can lead them to make destructive choices. How can parents teach their children to navigate these dangers?
Experienced family and children’s counselor Julie Lowe offers help to parents shepherding their children in a complex world. Lowe guides readers toward biblical wisdom so that they are not consumed with worry or living in denial. She encourages parents to respond to the reality of danger by nurturing their children’s relationship with God and teaching their children to discern good and evil both around them and inside their own hearts. Lowe offers practical guidance for establishing safeguards for children and reminds readers that all of us—parent and child alike—need to trust in our loving heavenly Father, in whose hands our safety ultimately rests.
Safeguards School Curriculum: Equipping Kids with Safety Skills
Because child abuse occurs even in faith-based communities, the Safeguards School Curriculum for elementary and homeschool teaches children how to assess and respond to potentially unsafe situations and people. This six-week curriculum teaches elementary grades abuse awareness and prevention from a biblical worldview. The curriculum emphasizes scriptural truth as the foundation for developing the wisdom and discernment needed by children to be safe.
The curriculum is divided into two age levels (K–grade 2 and grades 3–5) and employs stories, puppets, role plays, crafts, and a variety of hands-on activities to teach about wisdom and discernment. Topics addressed include learning to say no, respect and privacy, being lost, and bullying.
- Helps teachers and parents gain a biblical understanding of both the dangers children face and God’s power to overcome.
- Each lesson includes a take-home paper to educate and equip parents to continue the conversations started at school.
- Developed in partnership with the Evangelical Council for Abuse Prevention, which provides awareness, accreditation, and resources to Christian organizations who are serving children.
Safeguards Homeschool Curriculum
Because child abuse occurs even in faith-based communities, the Safeguards Homeschool Curriculum for elementary-aged students teaches children how to assess and respond to potentially unsafe situations and people. This three-unit digital curriculum teaches elementary grades abuse awareness and prevention from a biblical worldview. The curriculum emphasizes scriptural truth as the foundation for developing the wisdom and discernment needed by children to be safe.
The curriculum is designed for ages 7 through 11 (grades 2 through 5). It includes three units from the Safeguards School Curriculum—Discernment (Unit 1), Evaluation and Wisdom (Unit 2), and the Courage to Say No (Unit 3), employing stories, puppets, role plays, crafts, and a variety of hands-on activities.
Helps parent-teachers gain a biblical understanding of both the dangers children face and God’s power to overcome. Each lesson includes educational and equipping material to help parents reinforce the topics of the lessons. Developed in partnership with the Evangelical Council for Abuse Prevention, which provides awareness, accreditation, and resources to Christian organizations who are serving children.
Raising Kids in a Screen-Saturated World
Our lives are influenced by technology like never before. Screens and devices have become a part of our daily lives bringing many benefits, as well as challenges – not least to the area of parenting. Our kids are digital natives, never having known a world that wasn’t saturated with screens, their knowledge and experience rapidly outstrip that of even the most technologically literate parents. Raising them to make safe and godly choices in this area is difficult as many of us are still working out how to use technology wisely ourselves.
Eliza Huie, a parent and Christian counselor, gives 5 tips to help us parent in this screen-saturated world. Her advice is biblical, practical, and non-judgmental as she explores how we can use our access to technology to help ourselves and our kids grow in love for God and service to one another.
Raising Kids in a Hyper-Sexualized World
Parents face the challenge of raising their children in a sex–mad, sex–saturated world. Eliza Huie, a parent and Christian counselor, takes you through, practically, how to walk with your kid in the midst of this hyper–sexualized world. The tips come in the form of what not to do, yet does so without giving a sense of judgment or failure. Instead, this short book takes a look at the value of reframing the mistakes both parents and teens may have already made and gives a hopeful picture of how our compassionate Father moves toward us in weakness.
The curriculum is divided into two age levels (K–grade 2 and grades 3–5) and employs stories, puppets, role plays, crafts, and a variety of hands-on activities to teach about wisdom and discernment. Topics addressed include learning to say no, respect and privacy, being lost, and bullying.
- Helps teachers and parents gain a biblical understanding of both the dangers children face and God’s power to overcome.
- Each lesson includes a take-home paper to educate and equip parents to continue the conversations started at school.
- Developed in partnership with the Evangelical Council for Abuse Prevention, which provides awareness, accreditation, and resources to Christian organizations who are serving children.