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Scenarios on Consent for Kids: The Informed Consent-aur!

Scenarios about consent for youth, guided by Grant the friendly Consent-aur!

Scenario-based learning is a great way to enhance consent education with youth, and making sometimes abstract concepts a little bit easier for kids to relate to and understand. Consent scenarios can be particularly useful when diving deeper into the meaning of consent and how it relates to interactions youth have with people in their every day lives.
Scenarios about consent can help us feel more confident in the material that we’re teaching, but also helps make everything much more relatable. Scenarios can also be acted out between yourself and the youth you’re teaching, or between one another to enhance learning even more.
One of the most frequent questions our Prevention Education team gets from educators and parents is “But how do you talk about consent to young kids?” The issues is that usually we default to consent scenarios having to be about sexual and intimate relationships. Obviously this is a huge part of consent that we want everyone to be educated on eventually, however there so many different age-appropriate ways to talk about consent and scenarios without having to talk about sex! Remember, at it’s core consent is about respect, asking for permission, and healthy communication- and these are topics we can teach at any age using lots of different scenarios. 
Talking about consent doesn’t have to be scary- what better way to start these conversations than with a fun (and punny) little mascot leading the way through scenarios and learning how to be a good friend? Meet Grant. Grant Permission. He’s recently learned about consent and become an Informed Consent-aur, and it’s his mission to help teach others about consent so that we can all have healthy, respectful friendships and relationships!
We thought we’d give some examples of consent scenarios to use with younger kids when teaching our FERRIS model of consent. Grant and his forest friends will demonstrate how each of these elements of consent can be seen in their friendships. Feel free to use these scenarios as a starting point for you to come up with your own scenario examples to use with your class or with your kids. 

Meet Grant, Grant Permission. Grant used to understand consent as “just yes vs. no”. Then Grant learned about fully informed consent and how he can be a better friend, neighbour, and partner to others. Now, Grant is an...

Informed Consent-aur, and he’s ready to help teach everyone about informed consent!

Title reads: "Consent is ongoing like a FERRIS wheel!". Beside this are the 6 letters of FERRIS in their own coloured boxes. Below is a cartoon centaur with a speech bubble that reads “Come learn about consent with me and my friends!”

A box with a large letter F is in the top left corner of the page. Beside it the title reads "Freely Given". Below, text reads "No one should pressure you to make any decision or make you feel bad for saying no to something. You get to choose (all by yourself) when you give permission!" Below this is a cartoon image of a grassy field with a cartoon duck and centaur. The cartoon duck has a speech bubble that reads “Why don’t you want to play today? I thought we were friends?” The cartoon centaur has a speech bubble that reads “I’m allowed to set boundaries with everyone, even friends! I’m still your friend, I just don’t feel like playing today.”

A box with a large letter E is in the top left corner of the page. Beside it the title reads "Engaged". Below, text reads "Everyone is 100% happy with the decision and gets a say in things! Everyone needs to talk to each other to figure out what everyone wants." Below this is a cartoon image of a grassy field with a cartoon bear and centaur. The cartoon bear has a speech bubble that reads “What game should we play at recess today?” The cartoon centaur has a speech bubble that reads “Thanks for asking! Let’s each come up with some ideas that we’d like and then we can pick one together."

A box with a large letter R is in the top left corner of the page. Beside it the title reads "Repeated". Below this, text reads "We always ask for permission before doing anything with people or touching someone - even if we’ve known them for a long time or they are a family member!" Below this is a cartoon image of a grassy field with a cartoon squirrel and centaur. The cartoon squirrel has a speech bubble that reads “Make sure you hug your grandma goodbye!” The cartoon centaur has a speech bubble that reads “I’m not in a hugging mood today, so I’ll ask her if we can do a fist bump when we say goodbye today instead! It’s not mean, it’s just my boundary!”

A box with a large letter R is in the top left corner of the page. Beside it the title reads "Reversible". Below, text reads "We can change our mind about permission we give someone - and when we say no, the other person needs to listen!". Below this is a cartoon image of a grassy field with a cartoon otter and centaur. The cartoon otter has a speech bubble that reads “You don’t seem as excited to play tag as you were earlier. Are you okay?” The cartoon centaur has a speech bubble that reads “I was super excited to play, but now I’m getting really tired. I’m going to sit this game out, thanks for checking in."

A box with a large letter I is in the top left corner of the page. Beside it the title reads "Informed". Below, text reads "You need to be given all of the information before you can say yes to something! Talking and asking more questions can help with this!" Below this is a cartoon image of a grassy field with a cartoon raccoon and centaur. The cartoon raccoon has a speech bubble that reads “Want to go see a movie with me this weekend?” The cartoon centaur has a speech bubble that reads “Hmm maybe. What day this weekend? And which movie did you have in mind?”

A box with a large letter S is in the top left corner of the page. Beside it the title reads "Specific". Below, text reads "Permission between people is only between them, it doesn’t involve other people and what they think you should do!" Below this is a cartoon image of a grassy field with a cartoon bunny and centaur. The cartoon bunny has a speech bubble that reads “I heard Turtle say he wanted a big hug from you.” The cartoon centaur has a speech bubble that reads “That’s so nice to hear, but I’ll still have to check in with Turtle first to make sure that’s something they really want.”

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