Book Review
Short Summary
Body safety is one of the most important things children should learn about at a young age to help them protect themselves from potential dangers. This book serves as a guide around consent in setting boundaries and dealing with physical touch, and is particularly targeted at children with special needs.
What This Book Is About
‘An Exceptional Children’s Guide to Touch: Teaching social and physical boundaries to kids’ by Hunter Manasco provides a simple and easy to read narrative in story form about appropriate and inappropriate touch.
To make the topic easier to understand, the book shares 6 stories that discuss different facets of physical boundaries:
- Accidental touch
- Friendly touch
- Hurtful touch
- Touching oneself
- No touching
- Having one’s picture taken
Reflection and Comments
Defining the line between friendliness and inappropriate physical contact can be challenging, especially for children with special needs. What we love about this book is that it uses short stories to explore different types of touches, making it easier to differentiate one kind of touch to another.
It touches on the topic of having pictures taken even if it’s technically not physical touch. It helps kids understand that just because there was no touching involved doesn’t mean that it’s okay.
Written in an age-appropriate tone and language, it makes it easier for adults to teach kids how to protect themselves without scaring them. And it’s not just about kids setting their own boundaries—it’s also about teaching kids how to respect the boundaries of the people around them as well. There are very helpful parent notes at the back of this book as well.
Buy a Copy of This Book
Affiliate Disclosure: ‘Amazing Me’ is a participant in affiliate programs such as the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program. The links below are affiliate links and if you make a purchase, at no extra cost to you, we receive a commission. For more information please read our full disclaimer here.
You can buy a copy of this book online. If you are in Australia, we recommend you purchase via Booktopia or Amazon Australia. If you are in India, you can purchase your copy from Amazon India. For all other countries, you can click the Amazon US button below and you will automatically be redirected to your local Amazon page.
Video Review
