I
read this book using an Amazon-US KINDLE Unlimited download.
As
children, we’ve been taught to listen to our parents and to do everything they
tell say us. We know how much they love us and they won’t do anything to hurt
us. One of these things concerns tattling on someone else who did something
they shouldn’t have done, because doing it wouldn’t be a nice thing to do.
But
what happens when a relative, like Uncle Bob, starts doing something he shouldn’t
and tell us to keep it a secret even from our parents. This is what Suzy has to
deal with in this brief story when he starts touching her in places she somehow
feels is wrong; she becomes scared and doesn’t want to get in trouble for
tattling on her uncle to her parents.
This
creates a conflict in her young mild since her parents had also taught her that
if something is bothering her she should come to them. When she tells her
friend Lucy what’s happening, Lucy’s older brother tells Suzy to tell her
parents and that she wouldn’t get into trouble. Suzy follows his advice, tells
her parents who respond by sitting down and talking to her about what Uncle Bob
did to her.
Inappropriate
touching is a sensitive, everyday occurring issue which parents need to discuss
with their young child, and this book serves as marvelous beginning from which this
discuss can begin. The book then gives parents ideas as to how to go about
doing this. For trying to help parents, especially first-time young parents, in
dealing with this important, sensitive issue, there’s no way I can’t give Ms.
Jackson 5 STARS for her endeavor here.
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