The KIDPOWER Book for Caring Adults: How to Teach Self-Protection and Confidence Skills to Young People

The KIDPOWER Book gives essential information to adults on personal safety issues children face and then describes our effective, practical and fun approach to teaching safety skills to children through interactive discussions, role-plays and stories.

Information covers a wide variety of topics including: walking with awareness and confidence, knowing what a stranger is, getting help when lost or having a problem, dealing with hurtful words, saying no to unwanted touch, dealing with bullying, what if a child is abused.

A valuable tool for anyone with children in their lives!!

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NEW! The KIDPOWER Guide for Parents and Teachers eBook

The KIDPOWER™ Guide for Parents and Teachers is a 100-page introductory e-book version of our printed 600-page KIDPOWER™ Book for Caring Adults: Personal Safety, Self-Protection, Confidence & Advocacy for Young People. This Guide gives the reader access to many of our stories and skills immediately in a summarized format.  For those who want more in-depth information, The KIDPOWER™ Book for Caring Adults has 600 pages of step-by-step practices, inspiring stories, and comprehensive explanations; chapters about personal safety solutions for potential problems such as bullying, sexual abuse, and stranger safety; and chapters about personal safety issues for very young children, teenagers, and youth with special needs.

What are the benefits of The KIDPOWER™ Guide eBook?

• The information is available immediately.
• You can easily take it with you on a laptop.
• You can print it out.
• It is searchable.
• It is lower priced than a printed book.
• It saves resources.

KIDPOWER eBook Format

Our eBooks are currently available in Adobe PDF document format. This is NOT in Adobe eBook Reader format, which has greater restrictions on security. KIDPOWER eBooks are regular PDF documents with the following properties:

• They are password protected when you open them.
• You cannot cut and paste from them; however, you may print for personal use (please see our User Agreement for printing and sharing restrictions).
• The tool bar is disabled.

You need to use Adobe Reader version 5.0 or higher to read KIDPOWER eBooks. You can download Adobe Reader for free from http://www.adobe.com/reader. KIDPOWER eBooks are not compatible with PDA’s.

Buying and Downloading an eBook

You can buy an eBook right here! Your eBook will show in your cart as a product on its own. After completing checkout and payment in the normal way, you will receive your receipt and eBook, along with your password, via email within two business days.

Please Note: KIDPOWER eBooks are non-returnable and non-refundable. Please make sure that you have Adobe Reader installed properly on your computer before purchasing an eBook.

KIDPOWER eBook and Licensing

When you buy an eBook from KIDPOWER, completing your purchase means that you accept the terms of our license agreement. Please read the full text of the agreement. In it we have tried to balance your need as the reader for a useful, informative eBook with our need to protect our rights as publisher and the rights of our authors. In summary, the agreement says:

• You may make copies of your eBook for your own use onto any machine
• You may not pass copies of the eBook on to anyone else, whether electronically or by making additional printed copies.

KIDPOWER eBook Password Protection

Each eBook is secured with a password that you must enter to open it. This personalizes the eBook to you and constitutes your acceptance of the terms and conditions of the license agreement. The password for your eBook will be emailed with your receipt and the eBook itself.

eBook Support

If you experience a problem with using or installing Adobe Reader, please contact Adobe directly at www.adobe.com/support

To contact us directly if a problem is unresolved, email us.

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The KIDPOWER Safety Plan Comic Book is a cartoon-illustrated explanation for adults on how to introduce personal safety skills to younger children. The humorous black-and-white drawings and simple language help adults to create personal safety plans with children ages 3 to 8 in an effective, fun andinteractive way. Available in English only or English and Spanish.  

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The FULLPOWER Safety Plan Comic Book is a cartoon-illustrated introduction to personal safety skills for teens and adults in simple language. The humorous black-and-white drawings provide an entertaining explanation of basic skills that will protect people’s emotional and physical safety most of the time.

The simple explanations and clear drawings were first designed for people with developmental delays or whose first language is not English. However, the concepts and skills have proved to be relevant to teens or adults regardless of their abilities from a wide range of cultures around the world.

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This extensive 260 page manual has been developed during our over 16 years of teaching thousands of children and training hundreds of instructors. This is the textbook for our instructor training program and explains the KIDPOWER method for helping students be successful while practicing self protection, advocacy, confidence, personal safety and physical self defense skills.

The in-depth material has hundreds of explanations, exercises and activities. Topics
addressed include:
Teaching Tools
Student Management
Boundaries with Students
Dealing with Prejudice
Starting and Closing Classes
the Pattern of Attack and Safety Strategies
Awareness and Confidence
Moving out of Reach
Strangers
Checking/Thinking First
Emergencies
Yelling and Running,
Getting Help in Public
Boundaries on Touch
Teasing and Affection
Safety with Words
Triggers
Dealing with Bullying
Peer Pressure
Physical Self Defense
How to Use a Kick Pad
and Education for Parents, Teachers and Caregivers.

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SIX BOOKS!  DOZENS OF TEACHING STORIES!! 
HUNDRED OF PAGES OF MATERIAL!!
APPROPRIATE FOR PARENTS AND EDUCATORS!!!

“This material prepared me to work on issues I have worried about for my students but did not know how to address.”

“I know this is supposed to be for younger children but I read the books to my fifth grade class. These ten-year olds loved the easy stories and funny cartoons and asked for more!”

The KIDPOWER Teaching Kit is a set of six manuals using black-and-white cartoons and simple language to explain personal safety concepts and skills in an age-appropriate way. The stories and directions make it easy and fun to introduce and practice personal skills in classrooms and other group settings. The focus is on children ages 3 to 8, but is relevant for any children who are not old enough to be out on their own or to be left home alone.

Topics covered include: An Introduction on How to Teach, Safety with Feelings and Words, Being Powerful to be Safe (including Safety with Cars), Safety with Touch and Teasing, Getting Help to be Safe, and Checking First to be Safe (includes Safety with Strangers).

$90 English and Spanish
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An introduction to several KIDPOWER safety and self-esteem skills in a coloring book format using black-and-white cartoons and simple language. Fun and straightforward stories make it easy for young children to understand and remember important safety skills to use in everday life.

This stapled, ten-page, 4.25" by 5.5" booklet has clear directions that make it enjoyable and effortless to read, color, and practice safety skills!

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A RESOURCE FOR EDUCATORS, COUNSELORS, LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS AND OTHER PROFESSIONALS AS WELL AS FOR CONCERNED FAMILY MEMBERS AND INDIVIDUALS WHO WANT TO TEACH THEMSELVES ABOUT PERSONAL SAFETY

HUNDREDS OF PAGES OF CARTOON-ILLUSTRATED EXPLANATIONS, TEACHING STORIES AND DIRECTIONS ON HOW TO PRACTICE!!


 “I got this for my high school class, but I could not believe how much I learned about boundaries for myself! Practicing these skills has changed my life.”

“The language is simple. The concepts are profound.”

The FULLPOWER Teaching Kit is a set of six manuals using black-and-white cartoons and simple language to explain personal safety concepts and skills to teens and adults. The humorous stories and clear directions make it easy and fun to introduce and practice personal skills in classrooms and other group settings. The situations described are appropriate for teens and adults who are at times out in public independently or home alone.

Topics covered include: Safety with Feelings and Words, Being Powerful to be Safe, Safety with Touch and Teasing, Getting Help to be Safe, Checking and Thinking First to be Safe (includes Safety with Strangers) and Using Personal Safety Everywhere You Go – with family, with friends, at home, at school, at work, and in the community (includes bullying prevention).

Although no physical self defense is included in this publication, these skills can prepare people to protect themselves from most bullying, harassment, molestation, assault and abduction.

The simple explanations and clear drawings were first designed for people with developmental delays or whose first language is not English. However, the concepts and skills have proved to be relevant to teens or adults regardless of their abilities from a wide range of cultures around the world.

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This extensive 233-page manual has been developed during years of teaching thousands of teens and adults and training hundreds of instructors. This is the textbook for our instructor training program and explains the KIDPOWER method for helping students be successful while practicing self protection, advocacy, confidence, personal safety and physical self defense skills.

The in-depth material has hundreds of explanations, exercises and activities.

Topics addressed include:
Creating Emotional Safety and Success-Based Learning for Teens and Adults
Teen Management
Teaching Personal Safety Skills to People with Different Abilities
Bias, Prejudice, Stereotypes, and Assumptions
Boundary-Setting, Emotional Safety, and Advocacy Skills
The Pattern of Attack and Safety Strategies
Awareness and Confidence
Moving out of Reach
Strangers
Checking/Thinking First
Emergencies
Yelling and Running,
Getting Help in Public
Boundaries on Touch
Teasing and Affection
Safety with Words
Triggers and Verbal Attack
Dealing with Bullying
Peer Pressure
Physical Self Defense
How to Use a Kick Pad
and Education for Parents, Teachers and Caregivers.

$95

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