How To Tell Your Child: The story unfolds
This is a story of a working mom of 2 little girls. Like all moms, she loved her angels to the moon and back. As they became older and independent, having their own little social circles, she found the need to teach them about growing up. She had to teach them to stay safe without scaring them.
She reached out to her girlfriends. All agreed that growing up had not been easy. Though they shared a lot of awkward and fun stories, they still had no clue how to talk to their own children. Wanting lessons that were fun yet honest, she set out to create it.
She met with her colleagues and friends to think over it .It was a pyjama meeting over BEER and WINE. 4 hours into the much hyped meeting, there was NOTHING. Another hour later, one among the group had an eureka moment. She said “dragon” and passed out.
Now her story had to have a Dragon. It was perfect. He represented all the growing up fears that she had. And same fear that her girls and their friends will have now. He was the harbinger of all bad things to come. They decided to call him Mr.Puberty a.k.a Mr.P.
Mr.Puberty came with myths and shame. Growing up also meant being exposed to the world away from loving caregivers. When the word SEX is a taboo, how could she explain child sexual abuse to her girls? All this was serious stuff and she had to prepare her girls for it.
Watch our fiesty mom in action below:
Sure, growing up meant unusual changes, but a change in attitude and perception could make her a winner. Couldn’t she deal with it having fun? She soon came to realize that she had misunderstood Mr. Puberty. He was tamable and in fact outright silly. He was Mr. P, the misunderstood dragon.
And the fun lessons began. In the lesson on puberty in boys, Mr.P tries hard, very hard to teach Ryan. But know-it-all Ryan takes Mr. P by surprise and takes him on a ride…quite literally.
And then came Ms.P, the zany dragon. Her lesson on puberty in girls did not start with the ram head uterus that most of us have and will never see in our lifetimes. It was easy and relevant. She sings and dances with Susie while teaching her. And boy-oh-boy when she sings, she sounds like a million bucks.
“I did look at the video and what a wonderful way of explaining a tough topic. The subject has been handled very carefully and I especially liked the alerts that you have introduced. I look forward to seeing more from you and using the videos and accompanying workbooks with my clients as well as for our child safety seminars. Bravo.”
And Dear Rodinhooders, we are finally LIVE !! HowToTellYourChild.com
Hope you love our story and support us by sharing ! Do let me know your feedback on the project and how I can get more and more people talking about this..Thanks…
Deepa Kumar
deepa@yashram.com
asha chaudhry
kudos deepa & team,
being a mom of a seven year old girl, i really think this is a great idea.
clicked on your link – and boom! just love the look & feel of your site.
i’ve also signed up for the newsletter – found your fonts and everything about it very enchanting – pls give your creative team huge compliments!
deepa – your videos are very very well made i must say. i’m going through all the content and will definitely give you a more detailed feedback.
all the very best!
Deepa Kumar
Dear Asha,
Thank you. Glad you liked the site.
Please do make sure your lil one watches the video on Child Safety..She will love it for sure.
Deepa
asha chaudhry
yep! am watching it as we speak. i’ve told her a rodinhooder has made some awesome videos that we need to watch together today!
deepa – i read somewhere that a very good thing to do is give your child a password so if an acquaintance/neighbour ever comes up and tells your child that your mom/dad sent me to pick you up or your parents had an accident or any such thing – the child needs to ask that person THE PASSWORD.
Deepa Kumar
Very very interesting idea indeed! Will find way to put that in..Thanks
asha chaudhry
deepa – my seven year old loved child safety video and could understand every bit easily. i’m gonna share this with her teachers and see if they want to show it to the kids.
Deepa Kumar
Great !!
Tarun
awesome concept and cool video, really cool 🙂
visiting your site rite now…
asha chaudhry
hi deepa,
how are things at HTTYC? have you made new videos? would love to know!!
Deeti Dave
Have you tied up with schools, and may be with some doctors too ?
I remember, we had 2 lady doctors who held seminar for us girls in 7th grade a long time ago for this purpose.