A Zone of My Own

One of the reasons “A Zone of My Own” is so effective in teaching children, is the many visual aids that tie everything together.

  
Instead of focusing on “strangers”, a difficult concept that kids don’t fully understand, we focus on “people-you-know” and “people-you-don’t-know” – and that they can’t tell if they are bad or good just by the way that they look.
 
The “A Zone of My Own” message is to trust your feelings – so if a situation arises that makes a child feel uncomfortable, that it’s okay for them to say, “Don’t cross my zone!”
And because children tend to feel that it is their fault when something bad happens, we explain that it is not – and to go tell their parents.

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