SuitabookBeing safe with people
Honor Head
- Reading
- Preview the sections on strangers, bullying and adults if needed. Pause to ask what the child notices, invite their own ideas, and clarify any advice that seems confusing or worrying.
- Themes
- Everyday personal safety: The book considers interactions with family, friends and complete strangers and offers safety tips. Safety is presented as something children can think about and act on in ordinary social situations.
- Peer unkindness and bullying: The book explores what to do if friends are unkind or if a child is bullied. It offers guidance about responding to difficult behaviour from peers, without establishing how responsibility or resolution is framed.
- Inappropriate adult behaviour: The book addresses inappropriate behaviour from adults, even when the child knows them, and is described as sensitive. The book presents this mainly as information or explanation.
- Worth knowing
- Read alongside calm conversation rather than as a test. Pay attention to how the book defines danger, what actions it suggests, and whether its treatment feels clear and manageable for your child.