“We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons… but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.”
- Gloria Steinem
If She’s Not Having Fun You Have To Stop
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Start teaching consent when they’re little. There’s even children’s books that teach about bodily autonomy. My daughter has a book called No means No, and it’s a useful way to reinforce what I’m already teaching both my daughter and my son. That their bodies belomg to them. That someone else’s body isn’t theirs to do woth as they please. We ask before we tickle. We ask before we hug or kiss. And if someone says stop, we work on recognizing that and stopping.
I was just answering an ask about how to teach a four year old boundaries. This isn’t hard.