Consent Deal With It: A Guide to Setting Boundaries Before They're Crossed – Essential for Teens, Parents & Educators – Perfect for Classrooms & Counseling

While the subject is definitely important to teach to children, there is miss leading information in the book. I was unpleasantly surprised to see a Muslim girl giving a hug to a boy in the illustration. This goes against Muslims believe and practices, you may say that but it does happen. While that might be true it is only a small number that do and they are frowned upon by the Muslim society and Muslims would find it very offensive. Physical contact with opposite gender is forbidden in Islamic religion, therefore the idea given in this illustration is miss informing the reader. This doesn’t take away from the fact that this book has a very important valuable lesson and I love that their was different people with different background included in it. As a matter of fact this could’ve been taken advantage of and show that someone could say “no” for a hug, and we shouldn’t get offended if rejected and not to take things personal. Everyone would have their reasons it could be realign, culture, just not comfortable with social contact, or even history of abuse. Bottom line I loved the idea of the book but it was poorly executed. Hopefully next one will be even better if these notes of constructive criticism were applied. But for now I can not recommend the book to anyone.