When is a child’s sexualised behaviour age-appropriate and when is it something we need to interrupt?
In Australia, the term used to describe sexualised behaviours between children that are inappropriate or problematic is Harmful Sexualised Behaviours (HSB).
For some adults, certain behaviours wou...
It’s one of the hardest things for a parent or carer to wrap their head around, witnessing a child display sexualised behaviours towards another child. The instinct is to minimise, to explain it away with a nervous laugh and say, “They’re just curious,” or “It’s normal at that age.”
But here’s the ...
Before I became a police officer, I didn’t know much about child sexual abuse. It just wasn’t something people talked about when I was a child growing up or as I became a parent myself.
I joined the WA Police before my daughter had turned 2-years-old and she grew up with me in the blue uniform, hel...
I recently spoke with a mother who reached out to me because her 5-year-old child had disclosed sexual abuse -Â not from an adult, but from another 5-year-old child.
Let’s just pause there.
Because this is the part no one warns you about.
No one tells you what to do when the harm doesn't come from...
