Jayneen Sanders (aka Jay Dale) is an experienced Australian early
years educator, children’s book author and publisher.
She began her teaching career in the 1980s as a primary school
teacher in rural Queensland, Australia. She then moved to
Melbourne, Victoria, and taught at several inner-city
schools.
In 1985, Jayneen had a change of career and became an educational
editor and publisher.
In the early 90s, Jayneen and her partner moved to Japan to work as
English teachers. They lived and worked in Japan for over three and
a half years. In fact, Jayneen's first daughter was born there.
On returning to Australia, Jayneen began working as an educational
author/packager. Since then, she has authored and produced numerous
award-winning titles for the educational publishing industry.
Jayneen is also an accomplished children's book author, writing
titles for literacy series such as ZigZags, Totally Kidz, Deadly
and Incredible, and a children's picture book series for
Penguin.
Jayneen is currently the lead author of the literacy series ‘Engage
Literacy’ published by Capstone. She has written over 150 titles
for that series.
Jayneen is a mother of three daughters and was a school councillor
at her local school for over seven years. This time spent in
schools both as a teacher and a parent inspired her to ask the
question of her community: 'What are we doing in schools to protect
our children from inappropriate touch?' When she realised very
little was being done, she decided to use her authoring and
publishing skills to write 'Some Secrets Should Never Be Kept' to
help parents, carers and teachers to broach this subject and
encourage children to speak up.
After the encouraging response to 'Some Secrets Should Never Be
Kept', Jayneen realised there was a need to further build upon the
idea of prevention education. Jayneen participated in Protective
Behaviours professional development and attended numerous
conferences on the topic to educate herself in how to keep children
safe and provide them with age-appropriate and empowering body
safety and consent education.
Jayneen then went on to develop and publish a comprehensive Body
Safety and Respectful Relationship Teacher's Resource Kit as well
as writing many more children's books on the topics of body safety,
consent, respect, gender equality, social and emotional
intelligence, and diversity and inclusion.
Jayneen currently works with her partner, Mark Sanders to run
Educate2Empower Publishing. Her ongoing passion for the safety and
empowerment of children continues today, with new manuscripts and
free-to-download resources always in the wings.
This quickly became a favorite in our home and has taught our child that it's not OK to be forced into hugging, kissing, or touching someone else and that it is OK to tell someone that you don't want to be touched. DH83 on Amazon This book is terrific. The other night, I was sitting on the floor as my daughter walked by me. I grabbed her and gave her a hug and a kiss. Her response? "No Mommy! This is MY body and I'm the boss of it! No means no!" I have never been so proud of her. And lesson learned!: ) Naomi on Amazon My daughter is 2, nearing 3, and she likes to read this book, which makes me so happy. It is a sweet, shorter story that empowers her about her words! We have been able to use this when family members try to tickle her and she doesn't want to, or they want kisses and she doesn't want to, I quietly remind her that she can choose otherwise and suggest "a high five or to blow a kiss," or with the tickling I tell her that No means No and she can go tell them to stop (I usually call her over to me so that it does stop but she has the opportunity to use her strong voice and have it heard instead of me telling the adult to stop.) She responds so well to it and I am full of joy to have this book as a tool to help me raise a daughter with respect for her body and choices, and the knowledge that her No needs to be honored, too. I recommend this book! Maureen Eigen on Amazon
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