These questions motivated me to design an easy to remember model of what to teach about protective behaviours: all the BITSS you need to know to help keep kids safe.

The BITSS model of Protective Behaviours (copyright Megan Bayliss) examined a number of existing protective behaviour programs and took the major elements from each program. The elements were lumped into an easy acronym to help people remember what to do - what BITSS they need to cover.

These are the BITSS to help keep your kids safe (links to games and ideas on how to protectively play with each BITSS element):

Body Ownership Games and Activities for Protective Behaviours;

Private Parts: What to call them?;

Protective Behaviour Decorations for Christmas;

My Space – A Protective Barrier;

Intuition (aka as early warning signs and feelings):

Intuition and Early Warning Sign Activities;

Game to Develop Emotional Intelligence;

A Mime of Early Warning Information;

Good Touch Bad Touch;

Game Rules of Touch;

Chatterbox Play: A Touching Experience.

Sexual abuse: Secret Business Must End;

BITSS of Say No.

Walkie Talkies: Support Networks;

Risk Factors and Indicators of Child Abuse.

Family Talk - A Way to Prevent Child Abuse

Parents Responsible for Child Abuse and Neglect