TPP 447: Educator Sarah Casper Discusses her Comprehensive Consent Curriculum for Children and Teens
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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What is Sarah Casper’s personal background and why did she start teaching consent?
I'm Debbie Rieber, and you're listening to Tilt Parenting, a podcast for parents raising neurodivergent kids in a strength-based neurodiversity-affirming way. And before I get to today's guest, a heads up that starting next week, you will notice this show will have an updated name. After nine years, I am renaming this podcast from Tilt Parenting to Full Tilt Parenting, because this journey that we're on is not. Not passive. It really asks everything of us. And I'm really excited about this new name because it reflects the intentional way we show up for our neurodivergent kids every day. And it really honors the full contact, full-hearted reality of our parenting lives. And you don't have to do anything different.
Nothing else will change in terms of how and where you listen to this show. So next week you'll be listening to a full Tilled parenting. But for today, I have a really interesting show for you about the topic of consent. My guest for this conversation is educator and consent expert Sarah Casper. She's the founder of Comprehensive Consent and the author of the Kids and Consent Curriculum. And Sara has taught thousands of children and teens and adults how to build healthy, respectful, and joyful relationships through a social. Socialemotional lens. So in this episode, we're going to talk about how consent begins in everyday moments, like respecting boundaries and making choices, and how this plays out differently with neurodivergent kids.
We're also going to dig into practical ways to introduce consent language at home and balance autonomy with safety. Plus, Sara shares a simple activity to help your family reflect on how decisions are made. So here Here is my conversation with Sarah Casper on consent. Hey Sarah, welcome to the podcast.
Hi, it's great to be here.
I'm looking forward to getting into this with you, a new conversation, a new topic for the show. But before we do that, I read your formal bio, but I always ask my guests to take a few minutes and introduce themselves in their own words. And I always want to know that personal why. Sorry, yeah. Yeah.
So my name is Sarah Kasper and I am a consent educator. And I I like to specify when I say that that I very much deal in the realm of social emotional learning and creating healthy relationships and not in terms of legalities. How I got to this work, it's truly reflective of that. When I started to learn about boundaries and asking for what I want and navigating power dynamics, it was in the acro yoga space, which is like partnered acrobatics. I really had to figure out that space in a specific way because I am a five-three woman and I weigh about 170 pounds. And so in an acrobatic space, there is not that like prototype for me, right? The prototype is either a very small and lightweight woman and a very big, strong man basing.
And so when I first entered, started doing this circus art back in 2017, I really feel like I lost my voice as someone who's typically a confident, outspoken person. Boundaries didn't feel like something that were hard for me, but all of a sudden, in in this space where it was so assumed that because I looked a certain way. I wouldn't be good at certain things or I should do certain things. I really had to find my voice. And it was through the practice of Trying out different ways of asking and different ways of saying no and talking to my friends who also were doing it with me and having issues with boundaries and wants. And so it really comes from a place of creating things you want more than limiting yourself and things you don't want.
Those are like two sides of the same coin, but it really comes from how do we get to do the things that we want to do and in doing so, kind of keep away what we. don't want to do. And I was like, wow, this is a skill that I learned through practice. As an adult, imagine if I could have practiced consent in a low-stakes way, not again, not having to do with sex when I was younger. That would be amazing. And I've seen how these skills have also transferred then into a sexual realm, but it really didn't start from that place.
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