In an effort to reach an even larger audience, a highly lauded children’s book aimed at opening up the conversation between parents and children about personal safety in a friendly and fun manner goes high-tech in a downloadable, read aloud, video format.
Let’s Stay Safe! a 32 page hardcover picture book geared toward young children that discusses general safety topics as well as stranger danger and child safety/abuse prevention, was released by ArtScroll in 2011 and sold more than 19,000 copies.
“We wanted parents to have even better access to child safety tools,” explained Rabbi Yakov Horowitz, founder and director of Project YES, as well as an outspoken advocate on preventing child abuse for over a decade—long before it was socially acceptable to discuss this sensitive subject in our community.
“We created a digital child safety product so that anyone in the world can download it effortlessly and share it with their children.”
While the suggested donation for the video download is $5 it can be downloaded for as little one cent at RabbiHorowitz.com/
“We want this to be in every Jewish home,” explained Rabbi Horowitz. “We don’t want money to be a barrier to people who wish to share these important lessons with their children.”
The print version of the book has been extremely well received since its release, according to Rabbi Horowitz, who says dozens of people have contacted him, crediting Let’s Stay Safe! with saving their children from actual real-life abuse situations.
“I was doing a parenting workshop in Flatbush a few months after the book came out and a woman who saw signs in the street for the workshop came in. She told the parents in the room how she had been in Eichler’s (a popular local Judaica store) shopping for a Chanukah party when she saw the book, brought it home and read it to her children,” recalled Rabbi Horowitz.
“At the very same Chanukah party a great uncle started fondling her 6-year-old daughter,” he said. Having read the book, the girl looked at the great uncle calmly, and told him he was making her uncomfortable and then ran to get her mother—exactly what the book’s suggests.
A Yiddish version of the print book is expected to be out shortly and a Hebrew version of Let’s Stay Safe! is in the planning stages as well. The illustrations are being modified to fit the communities so that the children will feel comfortably at home with the book. Rabbi Horowitz hasn’t ruled out the possibility of releasing a downloadable read aloud version of the book in Yiddish as well if there is enough community interest.
The video is a project of the Karasick Child Safety Initiative of Project YES, the book was authored by Bracha Goetz, illustrated by Tova Leff and is geared toward young children.
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Download the full video at RabbiHorowitz.com/
A quick Google search should calm all the English mavens down a bit.
Here’s what I found:
Pendantic: slang term for someone who uses overly flamboyant language that they don’t actually understand
Pedantic: characterized by a narrow, often ostentatious concern for book learning and formal rules.
While Pendantic isn’t really a word it’s slang definition does seem to fit the bill here. Pedantic though, a real word, also makes sense in the context so let’s not be too pedantic ourselves while we comment on the word pedantic.
it doesnt matter how they spell or say it no one is testing ur english
the word is pendantic…. 😉
amazing. its a gr8 way to teach kids about personal saftey, thats not too heavy for them to just tune out
If you are going to be pedantic and critique spelling, then you may want to be more careful with your own statements. No one misspelled “enunciated so wrong”, but you may indeed question why they misspelled “enunciated so badly”.
How did you manage to misspell enunciated so wrong?
he’s.not clear….too quick, swallows words to fit the ‘tune’ too fastcute sounding kid, but as an adult I had a hard time understanding. imagine for a kid.
if you’ve ever heard other types of videos like this, the words and sounds are super clear, slow and almost exaggerated to ensure its easily understood.
great concept though, just needs tweaking.
sorry, but “enunciate” is the correct spelling. it’s ok though, it’s a confusing word i know
#2 spelled perfectly fine–you didn’t!
kids will relate more when they hear it in a kid’s voice.
WHILE U R ANNUNCIATING PROPERLY CHECK YOUR SPELLING.
2) when a child hears the rhymes-
a) it makes the concepts less threatening and more child friendly and
b) it makes the concepts easier to remember for children
as for 3) –
a) hearing it from a child makes it more child friendly and
b)when a child may need the tools the book offers, it makes no difference if they came from an adult or child voice,
c) not to mention that the harasser is usually an adult and it would be hard to trust what an adult said at that moment
is the video only 6 minutes? not sure if i downloaded it correctly.
You have a lot to say
I think the book is amazing!!
However, I do agree with what u wrote- especially to ur point
in #2.
1) the person reading the text does not enunciate clearly.
2) The poetic will to rhyme detracts from the clarity of information that you are trying to convey.
3) A child will pay attention to an adult authority voice better then he will listen to the voice of a child.
wow!! we have the book at home, and i read it to my siblings pretty often!
Its amazing! every mother should buy the book and the video too!!