TPP 058: Jill Goetz Shares Best Practices for Keeping Our Kids Safe
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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Why is it important to teach safety and consent to differently‑wired kids?
As an adult, when you are afraid or you have that moment of panic or something happens that's unexpected, that even as an adult, we struggle with what to do in situations. So imagine what that would be like for a child who's maybe even never considered, you know, it never occurred to me that I could get separated from my parents at the zoo.
Welcome to the Tilt Parenting Podcast, a podcast featuring interviews and conversations aimed at inspiring, informing, and supporting parents raising differently wired kids. I'm your host, Debbie Reber, and today I'm talking with Jill Goetz, the owner and early child education specialist at Savvy Parents Safe Kids, a company with the mission of helping parents learn how to talk with their kids about safety and their safety needs. Jill walks us through how to bring up conversations around safety, specifically the topics of consent and personal advocacy and learning how to listen to intuition with our kids. This is an important topic for parents of all children, but because some differently wired kids can be especially vulnerable since they don't read social situations or social cues as well, helping them foster these skills is an important part of their development.
Jill also walks us through the super 10 rules for safety, which are 10 simple but important rules we can share with our children to help them stay safe and secure. What I love about these 10 rules is they can be shared and reinforced with our kids in a way that feels positive and not scary or overwhelming. I hope you enjoy our conversation. And before I get to the show, a short reminder, if you're not already signed up for our Differently Wired seven day challenge, I would love for you to join us. When you sign up for the challenge, you'll get an email every day for seven days featuring a tweak you can make in your day to day life to change the way you think, feel and experience raising your differently wired child.
You'll also get a downloadable workbook to use as you go through it. And you'll be invited to a closed Facebook group just for people who've gone through or are currently doing the challenge. Oh, and it is also free. So if you want to join us, you can sign up online at tiltparenting.com slash seven day. And now let's get on with the show. Hey, Jill, and welcome to the show. Thank you, Debbie. It was actually Amy Lang who we had on a couple months ago now to talk about sex education, who kind of reminded me of the great work that you guys are doing through Savvy Parents Save Kids. And I thought, oh, I have to bring you on the show to have this conversation. So there's a lot that we can get into. But before we start talking specifically about your work,
Could you just take a minute to tell us a little bit about your background, you know, who you are, what you do, how you got into doing this work? Sure.
So I started out as a child development major, and my focus was always working with children and families. So, you know, I enjoyed time as a preschool teacher. I worked as a center director and, you know, kind of fought through the challenges of accreditation and keeping up with licensors and working through kind of all of the politics around some of those things. After I got my master's in education, administration and supervision, I actually went on to become an administrator for a local school, a private local school that had a K-8 program. And I enjoyed that for quite a long time. Until I had my own son, and then I was home for a few years. And just kind of looking for what is the next thing going to be?
You know, am I going to stay home with him? Is there something I can do from home? And at the time, I found myself working for an online startup. And through that online startup, came in contact with Amy Lang at Birds, Bees, and Kids, and also came in contact with Kim Estes, who is the founder of Savvy Parents, Safe Kids. And she and I just connected right away. And we had a lot of fun. And all phone conversations were three times as long as they should have been to answer little conversations or little tidbits or little questions.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Why is it important to teach safety and consent to differently‑wired kids?
0:00–5:49
2
How did Jill Goetz get started and what is Savvy Parents Safe Kids?
5:49–11:14
3
What are the first two of the Super 10 safety rules and how can they be taught positively?
11:14–15:11
4
How can parents help children recognize and trust their own instincts?
15:11–19:46
5
What strategies help kids learn personal information (name, address, phone) safely?
19:46–23:36
6
How should parents talk about private body parts and boundaries with young children?
23:36–28:06
7
What techniques teach kids to say “no,” handle bullying, and avoid unsafe situations?
28:06–32:02
8
How can families practice “what‑if” scenarios for getting lost and staying safe in public?
32:02–38:54
Speakers
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