For parents, grandparents and caregivers

Free printables for the Six Powers kit

Ready Words cards for the car, a fridge chart of the six powers, and a tracker for all 60 lessons. Made to use with Six Powers for Street Smart Kids and its workbook, for children ages 6 to 9.

  • Ages 6 to 9
  • Print at home
  • Works with both books
Six Powers for Street Smart Kids, the parent's guide, coverSix Powers for Street Smart Kids Workbook cover

What's in the download

For you: The Six Powers Practice Pack

7 pages to print: five Ready Words cards to cut out for the car, a fridge chart of the six powers, two "My people" cards for the names of the adults your child can go to, a practice tracker for Lessons 1 to 60, and a page for grandparents and babysitters.

A look inside the parent's guide

Meet the six powers and the first five lessons. Each lesson is two pages: the left page says what the lesson is and why, the right page gives you the words, line by line.

A look inside the workbook

Meet the six powers, the first five story lessons, a picture to color, and a look back.

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The six powers

Tricky Can Look Friendly

A tricky person is any adult who tries to get your child to help them or go with them. Being friendly doesn't make the ask okay.

Safe Beats Polite

Your child can walk away mid-sentence, or say no to a friend. They're never in trouble for leaving.

Sharp Eyes

Your child notices what people do, and picks the adult they'd go to for help.

Ready Words

Your child practices a few short words until they can say them fast. "No. I have to go."

Go and Tell

Your child comes to you, or the adult in charge, and tells. The rest is an adult's job.

No Need to Be Sure

Your child notices something weird a person did or said. They leave and tell you, without needing to be sure.

The books

Six Powers for Street Smart Kids cover

Six Powers for Street Smart Kids

The parent's guide and journal. 60 short lessons you run with your child, a few minutes at a time.

Six Powers for Street Smart Kids Workbook cover

Six Powers for Street Smart Kids Workbook

Your child's half of the kit. The same 60 lessons, with the same numbers, each with a story to read together.

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One sign-up, three PDFs, in the same email a few minutes from now.

How a lesson works

Six Powers for Street Smart Kids is a parent's guide and journal for teaching street smarts and personal safety to children ages 6 to 9, by Max Hazelhurst.

You've had the talks, and your child can repeat the rules. That was a sensible place to start. Knowing a rule and doing it are two different things, so every lesson ends in practice.

What you're working toward is letting go a little, on purpose.

You read each lesson, think it through, and plan where to try it. Then you run it with your child. A lesson takes a couple of minutes. Run two or three a week. One question in the car, the words to say, then a try somewhere real, like the store or the park. There's a pocket tip for every lesson, short enough for your child to say back to you.

Nothing in the book tests your child without telling them. They always know it's practice. In every workbook story, the child has an adult close by.

What your child learns

What the book is based on

The parent's guide draws on 50 sources, and 39 of them were read in full. Where a lesson rests on a study, the notes by lesson name it. Where it rests on the author's judgment, the book says so.

Questions parents ask

Will it scare my child?
No lesson is built to frighten your child. Every lesson ends with something your child can do.
How long does it take?
A lesson takes a couple of minutes. Run two or three a week.
Do I need the workbook?
No. You can run every lesson from the parent's guide. Six Powers for Street Smart Kids Workbook is your child's half of the kit: the same 60 lessons, with the same numbers, each with a story to read together and badges to color in.
Can my child use the workbook alone?
No. It's made to be used with the parent's guide, which gives you the words for every lesson.
Can I write in the parent's guide?
Yes. It doubles as your journal.
Does it cover online safety?
No. It covers real places.
Will it keep my child safe?
No book can promise that. It gives you practice.
Who wrote it?
Max Hazelhurst, author of Murphy's Law for Kids and Murphy's Law for Kids: School Edition.

Book details

Six Powers for Street Smart Kids: Practical, Parent-Led Lessons for Real Situations That Teach Your Child to Spot Tricky People, Trust Their Own Gut, and Turn Down a Dare. Paperback, ISBN 9798140517960. Also on Kindle.

Six Powers for Street Smart Kids Workbook. Paperback, 6 x 9 inches, 152 pages, black and white inside. ISBN 9798141104206.

Both books have 60 lessons with the same numbers.

Your child is 7 to 10? Murphy's Law for Kids, by the same author, is a series of funny stories about bouncing back when things go wrong. The free Murphy's Law guide is here.

Ready when you are.

The printables are free, and they work with both books.