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Our 106th episode of Beyond the Bump is a little bit more serious than normal. Trigger warning, we do talk about child abuse and sexual assault. In this episode, we chat with Sara from Secure Foundations. Sarah has a background as a child practitioner and sexual abuse investigator. Now she is an online parenting coach helping parents raise emotionally intelligent and resilient little humans. We chat all about, risk reduction in terms of child safety and how we can have open communication with our kids about their bodies and consent:What can we do to teach our little ones about consent and body autonomy?Should we name genitalia by their proper name?When is it time to put nickers/swimwear on when friends are over and wanting to have a bath/shower together?How can we teach our kids about stranger danger without freaking them out?How to not dismiss our children’s feelings if they don’t want to go to daycare/school because they feel uncomfortable/don’t like their teacher?When there is someone who you are suspicious of in your child’s life what are some things you can do to delve a bit deeper?Is it okay to ask your child, ‘Does anyone touch your vagina/penis?’ or should we not randomly prompt it?What about secrets? Can we tell secrets as a fun activity in our families?What is the ‘safety network’ and ‘the hand’?How do we know when to believe our children when we feel like your child is always telling fibs?Should we allow our kids to go to sleepovers?And MORE!!!!We hope you absolutely LOVE this episode!Beyond the Bump is a podcast brought to you by Jayde Couldwell and Sophie Pearce! A podcast targeted at mums, just like you! A place to have real conversations with honest and authentic people. Follow us on Instagram at @beyondthebump.podcast to stay up to date with behind the scenes and future episodes. This episode of Beyond the Bump is brought to you by KiwiCo:I’ll tell you something we find hard with kids? Buying presents!!Whether it’s for our own kids, our nieces and nephews or for friends’ kids' birthdays, it can be so hard to come up with birthday or Christmas ideas that will actually get used and not just lead to more junk!! Jayde recently got my nephew for his birthday a KiwiCo Panda Crate subscription which is such a great idea as all our girls love them! For those that don’t know, it will arrive at their house every second month with two months worth of product in it, all of which are backed by research and designed especially for curious and creative little ones!!  Poppy has been loving the animal match-up game where you match up which baby animal goes with the big animal. It's great for sorting skills, but she also gets to learn the names of baby animals which is super cute. And Yumi loves a game where she can get physical, so she’s been going crazy with Peek-A-Boo Base, where you press down one animal puzzle and another piece pops up else-were.Now watch every child close to us be gifted the exact same thing! If you like the sound of this and want to build a foundation for early learning with Panda Crate from KiwiCo, head to kiwico.com and use the code BTB50 to get 50% off your first month of any crate lineThat's right BTB50 for 50% off at kiwico.com