Safeguards: Shielding Our Homes and Equipping Our Kids
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
Because children are vulnerable, they need to be protected. After more than two decades as a family counselor, Julie Lowe has seen how important it is to help parents and caregivers think wisely and biblically about the dangers children face. Instead of living in fear or denial, parents and caregivers can equip children to assess people and situations and model for them how to live by faith in a world where evil exists.
Lowe helps parents and caregivers teach the safety skills that will help protect their children from mistreatment, unsafe situations, violence, bullying, cyber-crimes, predatory behavior, sexting, abuse, and other kinds of danger that they might encounter. The safety skills that are needed at every stage—preschool, elementary-age, teens, and college-bound—are discussed and applied in an age-appropriate way.
Safeguards provides tools, skills, and resources to help when faced with uncomfortable, challenging, or dangerous situations. Instead of growing more anxious, parents and caregivers can grow in a biblical understanding of the type of dangers and issues children and young people might face, learn how to instill confidence and conviction in responding to new or fearful situations, and distinguish safe vs. unsafe people and situations.
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- Teaches readers to grow in a biblical understanding of the dangers young people might face
- Provides tools, skills, and resources to use in uncomfortable, challenging, or dangerous situations
- Helps parents and caregivers teach safety skills that will help protect children from unsafe situations
- Unique Dangers in Our Modern World
- Worry and Denial Are Not Safety Skills
- Raising Equipped Kids, Not Fearful Kids
- Helping Parents to Recognize and Protect Children from Sexual Abuse
- Teaching Kids to Evaluate Behavior
- Practice Makes Permanent— Using Role-Playing to Disciple Children
- Key Topics to Discuss with Children
- Technology and Your Child
- When Children Bully or Are Bullied
- Equipping Children in Case They Get Lost
- Wisdom Issues: Sleepovers
- Wisdom Issues: Childcare Guidelines
- Wisdom Issues: Safe Words and Family Safety Plans
- How to Respond When Violence Touches Your Child’s Life
- Teenagers Need Genuine Relationships with God and Their Parents
- Comparison, Peer Pressure, and Treating Others with Respect
- Sex and Dating
- Social Media and Technology Safety
- Pornography and Sexting
- Alcohol Abuse, Drugs, and Smoking/Vaping
- Navigating Mental Health Struggles
- Safety Skills for Growing Independence
- Safety Concerns for Young Adults: Online Dating, Consent, and Campus Life
- God—Our Refuge, Strength, and Very Present Help in Trouble
Part 1: Wisdom—the Foundation for Equipping Children with Safety Skills
Part 2: Equipping Children with Safety Skills
Part 3: Equipping Teenagers and Young Adults with Safety Skills
I know of no other book that does what this one does. Here is practical help for every parent who is preparing their children to live with discernment in our sadly broken world. But what I love the most about this book is that its practical focus isn’t separated from the beauty and comfort of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
—Paul David Tripp, Author; speaker; teacher
Safeguards could not possibly be more practical. Every page is loaded with applied wisdom for keeping children safe. I constantly found myself saying ‘Our family needs to do this!’ Grounded in a call to trust the Lord rather than fear mongering, Safeguards equips both children and parents to discern evil and danger and to prepare wise, protective responses.
—Alasdair Groves, Executive Director, CCEF
Reading this book is like gaining a wise mentor to walk alongside you in your parenting journey. Julie Lowe expertly tackles key challenges parents face and provides scripts, scenarios, principles, and guidelines that are steeped with biblical wisdom. If you are looking to equip your children for the potential dangers and difficulties they may face in life, consider this your handbook.
—Eliza Huie, Licensed and biblical counselor, Director of Counseling, McLean Bible Church, Vienna, VA; coauthor of The Whole Life
- Title: Safeguards
- Author: Julie Lowe
- Publisher: New Growth Press
- Print Publication Date: 2022
- Pages: 209
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- ISBNs: 9781645072867, 164507286X
- Resource ID: LLS:SAFEGUARDS
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-10-11T20:40:11Z
Julie Lowe, MA, is a faculty member at CCEF and a licensed professional counselor with nearly twenty years of counseling experience. Julie is also a registered play therapist and has developed a play therapy office at CCEF to better serve families, teens, and children. Julie is the author of Child Proof and Building Bridges, as well as the minibooks Helping Your Anxious Child and Teens and Suicide. Julie and her husband, Greg, have six children and serve as foster and adoptive parents.