This mother gave an important lesson on consent to her nine-year-old daughter.
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00:00She pinched Maya's cheeks and it pained.
00:03No matter what, our body is ours and we have all the right to say no or move away.
00:31She came to the window to sell. It was an old woman.
00:35And we got the flowers and I was taking money out of my purse.
00:40And she did something to Maya. What did she do?
00:42Yeah, she pinched Maya's cheeks and I didn't see that happening.
00:47By the time I took the money and gave it to her, it was all done.
00:51In that particular situation, we both of us couldn't do anything.
00:54So, yeah.
00:55But why don't they do that to adults?
00:57I don't know.
00:59Maybe it's because kids are smaller and cuter.
01:01Yeah, maybe it's also because kids don't really open up and say, you know, I don't want, I don't like.
01:15We spoke about how some people in the previous generation might not understand body boundaries.
01:19And they're not doing it to intentionally hurt.
01:23But it's just because they don't understand.
01:26After all, our body is ours and we have all the right to say no or move away.
01:56The gesture clearly hurt my child.
02:16She has said in the reel that it pained.
02:18And what is not comfortable with her is not tolerated by me.
02:23Consent and boundaries are a sensitive subject, which is just getting some light these days.
02:28Even if you can't spread awareness, do not ruin the work by spreading misinformation.
02:37I have clearly mentioned that the old woman's intention was not to hurt.
02:41But the goal is to keep having conversations about body boundaries.
02:45So that children understand that ultimately their body is their own.
02:50If the adult does not know how else to show affection or doesn't know to seek consent.
02:55The child can't be responsible for that.