Teach Children Safe and Unsafe Touch | Protecting the Next Generation

In this powerful continuation of our conversation, Jen sits down with trauma therapist and author Amber Gonzalez to talk about something every parent, caregiver, and community needs to understand: teaching children safe and unsafe touch.

Many families avoid these conversations because they feel uncomfortable or believe children are too young to understand. But silence does not protect children. Education does.

Amber shares why prevention must start early and how parents can begin teaching body safety, boundaries, and trust from a young age. She also explains how open communication, consistent follow-up, and believing children can make the difference between silence and safety.

This episode is a reminder that protecting children is not a one-time conversation. It’s an ongoing commitment to awareness, listening, and creating safe spaces for children to speak.

In this episode, we discuss:

• Why children often stay silent about abuse
  
  
• The importance of teaching safe and unsafe touch early
  
  
• How predators use grooming behaviors to gain trust
  
  
• Why believing a child’s voice matters
  
  
• Practical ways parents can create safe spaces for children
  
  
• How education and awareness can help prevent abuse
  
  

Breaking generational cycles begins with truth, courage, and protection.

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Transcript

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In your experiences and over time, what would you say is the most overlooked belief when it comes to generational trauma? So really a lot of people just put the trauma word and it in it and it's just, oh, you know, unresolved trauma from childhood get over it. It shouldn't still affect you. You're 60 now, that happened when you were seven. But really, that's why I'm I'm such an advocate for prevention. Because once it happens, that's why the penalty of it needs to be more severe. But then at the same time, it really doesn't matter sometimes if the penalty isn't severe or not. Because a lot of my clients that were victims don't prosecute, which is the hard part, too. It's that trauma bomb, like, okay, well, I want to tell you what happened, but I don't want to prosecute that person. I don't really want them to go to jail. So that's like that mix there, and what it happens, it'll cause more pain for the victim than the predator in many ways. But sometimes the predator was also essayed, too, and that's a whole nother thing. Um, and they're just mimicking the behaviors, but still not not excuse. So for that, I see that it it can take children's souls. I I've had clients that were hospitalized eight to ten times in a year. I had clients that have wanted to unalive themselves multiple times, um, that had self-harm cutting behaviors, uh, burning themselves, pulling off their hair. That part is so overlooked that people are just like, okay, well, you know, this happened to you, get over it. The long-lasting effects, the the addiction that could come to it. Because, okay, let me let me drink this drink, let me smoke this, let me do this, because it keeps me out of my mind. I don't have to remember the the those thoughts. So I think that's the biggest overlook of the damage after essay, even if it happened one time, even if it's not penetration, people are like, Oh, well, you weren't fully penetration, penetration or not, the mind game that's played, especially when a child is told to do stuff to the adult, it really will mess with them. Like, wait, well, I did it to them. So, does that count that you know they didn't touch me? I touched them. So, all that part is overlooked as far as the the darkness.