My Underpants Rule

I think that it is so important to do our best to teach our children how to keep themselves safe, while at the same time not scaring them so that they don't trust anyone! This book does the job really well.It is bright and colourful and rhymes well, my two nearly six-year-olds love it, they think that it is fun to read but the questions in it ensure that they are listening and taking in what I'm reading. I really like that it includes the fact that sometimes people do need to see under their underpants, like a doctor or Mummy if they're sore or unwell. I also like how easily it opens up discussions on who they know who is a safe person that they can talk to.This book has so many positives and no negatives that I've found. If you want to help explain to your child/ren about keeping safe without worrying them about it then this book is a great place to start. I'd suggest that it would be suitable for children aged four to eight, with maybe a bit of leeway each side depending on the child.Thank you to the authors for writing such a helpful book in such a fun way.

This book was recommended by a friend who used it with her children. I found it was a very good and non-scary way to introduce to my five-year-old the fact that people should not touch you under your underpants and that, if they do, you should Run, Kick, and Scream...and find and tell an adult who wasn't there. It also points out when it is okay for someone to touch you under your underpants (doctor or parent when you are hurting and with your permission). It was a nice gate-way book and allowed me a way to tell my children that if someone does touch you under your underpants, they will tell you not to tell your parents and that you will get in trouble if you do. I was able to reinforce that "this is a lie and that a person who says this is sick and needs help, and that person can't get help unless you tell me or tell another adult you feel safe with."

Helps young children to understand body privacy.

Brilliant very well written, would highly recommend this book to anyone. It’s expensive for what it is but worth every penny, certainly in my house where my young child likes to discard clothes at earliest opportunity. I’ve been trying to find a balance in not body shaming my child but also what’s appropriate and not. I joined this group on fb when daughter was a young baby as I really liked their philosophy, now I’m pleased to buy and read the book. It’s in great speech for a four year old with ‘pee and poo’ words to capture them and keep them enthralled. This is a book I will pass on in the future.

Fantastic book! I really don't understand some of the negative comments about the rhyming not being very good because it's easy for kids to understand and it's repetitive so who gives two hoots if it's not the best rhyming in the world! My nearly 5 year old was repeating the underpants rule by heart by the end of the book after reading it for the first time so it obviously sunk in extremely quickly and if that helps keeps her safe then I can't not give this book 5 stars! Bright and colourful and informative without being scary - this is a must for every parent!

A definite must for all parents, truly amazing book for explaining important rules to children, very well thought out & put together & also fun to read & my 3 year old daughter understood & joined in with the words & repeating along with the book, the underpants rule, perfect for explaining to the younger child & a very important lesson to be learned, I would highly recommend this book to all parents & even moths after reading the book to my 3 year old she remembers the text when I ask her every now & again, “what’s your underpants rule”

It was quite good, but not great, it was easy to read , but I think you have to read it quite often to a young child for it to sink in, I also though it was expensive for such a little book; illustration was good though.

Great book to start difficult conversations with a kid. I use it with my 3 and 5 year olds to help build there privacy awareness and they respond really well to it.

Sexual assaults/uncomfortable exploration/body curiosities start at a young age, especially with so much content with sexual innuendos all around us. We started teaching my toddlers with how bodies belong to us and how they don’t have to be shared. I think this book is great for 4 and up because this explains in more details about not being touched or seen but not written too graphically, so it’s perfect to be digested by someone their age.I highly recommend this book to every kid and for parents to read to their kids. Our kids can be the perpetrator or victims, and we must do our best to teach them safety.Thank you to the authors!! I went though the book today with my 5 year old and asked him questions and went through the answers. It was eye opening with how some things he didn’t know although I thought I had drilled it in him. I will be rereading this to my children (7 and 5) and will be getting this book their friends.

The book is ok for my 6 year old

We enjoy this book and teaching the kids the rules in funny way

It’s a great resource to have the conversation with your little about this delicate topic. Working in social services for a long time I’ve seen many things therefore I know how important it is to discuss this with your children. This book made it a very diffiuclt topic fun and I totally recommend it.

A great book and appropriate content for parents and kids to have this important conversation.