being a child is a time when you learn so many new things. You will learn from your parents, from teachers, from other family, family friends, and sometimes strangers. You will meet people who you like and become friends. There's a lot of exciting experiences.

When you meet anyone, they must behave well - treat you with respect, help you grow in yourself.

When might something be wrong

• if you feel something is wrong
• if anyone touches you between your legs, especially near the top, around your private area or bottom. when youre a young child, this will be usual to help you clean, but over time when you are able to wash yourself noone should be touching you without explaining to you and never if you're told it's s secret - if you're unsure, tell others
• when you are asked to touch an adult around their private parts
• if you are being slapped, kicked, or hit
• if you are being locked away
• if you are trying to make friends with people your own age and you are discouraged from, without a fair reason given to you, provided in more than one adult in an open setting
• if the adult seems to mock you - throws a tantrum, behaves as though they are your age to get to make you do something differently. It's ok for an adult to act childish, but not if they are trying to change how you think

what you should learn

• how to engage with other children and develop friendships, you might need your own time, but you should not be encouraged away from it by adults
• how to develop abaility to reason
• sexual exploration outside the family - never someone in the family, or an adult outside the family as they will be abusing you, as that's what an adult does when they play with a child's private parts
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