Asking About Sex and Growing Up

Asking About Sex and Growing Up
Author: Joanna Cole
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 100
Release: 1988-05-20
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9780688069285

Uses a question-and-answer format to present sex information for preteens.

It's Perfectly Normal

It's Perfectly Normal
Author: Robie H. Harris
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2021-05-18
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1536216127

Fully and fearlessly updated, this vital new edition of the acclaimed book on sex, sexuality, bodies, and puberty deserves a spot in every family’s library. With more than 1.5 million copies in print, It’s Perfectly Normal has been a trusted resource on sexuality for more than twenty-five years. Rigorously vetted by experts, this is the most ambitiously updated edition yet, featuring to-the-minute information and language accompanied by new and refreshed art. Updates include: * A shift to gender-neutral vocabulary throughout * An expansion on LGBTQIA topics, gender identity, sex, and sexuality—making this a sexual health book for all readers * Coverage of recent advances in methods of sexual safety and contraception with corresponding illustrations * A revised section on abortion, including developments in the shifting politics and legislation as well as an accurate, honest overview * A sensitive and detailed expansion on the topics of sexual abuse, the importance of consent, and destigmatizing HIV/AIDS * A modern understanding of social media and the internet that tackles rapidly changing technology to highlight its benefits and pitfalls and ways to stay safe online Inclusive and accessible, this newest edition of It’s Perfectly Normal provides young people with the knowledge and vocabulary they need to understand their bodies, relationships, and identities in order to make responsible decisions and stay healthy.

How to Talk to Your Child About Sex

How to Talk to Your Child About Sex
Author: Linda Eyre
Publisher: Golden Books Adult Publishing
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2007-04-01
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1429973668

Linda and Richard Eyre stress that it's never too soon-or too late-to start discussing sex and values with your children, and they've got proven strategies to make it easier. For parents who want to go beyond the birds and the bees talk, How to Talk to Your Child About Sex provides thoughtful, clear, specific guidance on when and, most important, how to help children begin to learn and understand sex, love, and commitment from the most positive viewpoint possible. Preliminary "as needed" talks with three-to eight-year-olds The age eight Big Talk Follow-up talks with eight-to thirteen-year-olds Behavior discussions and guidelines with eleven-to sixteen-year-olds Discussions of perspective and personal standards with fifteen-to nineteen-year-olds

The Sex Education Answer Book

The Sex Education Answer Book
Author: Cath Hakanson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2020-10-30
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780648716204

By the age responses to tough questions kids ask parents about sex (for parents of kids aged 3 -14)

Sex, Puberty and All that Stuff

Sex, Puberty and All that Stuff
Author: Jacqui Bailey
Publisher:
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2005-07-01
Genre: Adolescence
ISBN: 9780749658502

This friendly book talks to teens in their own language, discussing such issues as puberty, coping with controlling parents, menstruation, dating and sexual activity, contraception, pregnancy, and more. Illustrations.

Wait, What?

Wait, What?
Author: Heather Corinna
Publisher: Limerence Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019-09-03
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781620106594

From Heather Corinna, founder and director of Scarleteen.com, and Isabella Rotman, cartoonist and sex educator, comes a graphic novel guide that covers essential topics for preteens and young teens about their changing bodies and feelings. Join friends Malia, Rico, Max, Sam and Alexis as they talk about all the weird and exciting parts of growing up! This supportive group of friends are guides for some tricky subjects. Using comics, activities and examples, they give encouragement and context for new and confusing feelings and experiences. Inclusive of different kinds of genders, sexualities, and other identities, they talk about important topics like: - Bodies, including puberty, body parts and body image - Sexual and gender identity - Gender roles and stereotypes - Crushes, relationships, and sexual feelings - Boundaries and consent - The media and cultural messages, specifically around bodies and sex - How to be sensitive, kind, accepting, and mature - Where to look for more information, support and help A fun and easy-to-read guide from expert sex educators that gives readers a good basis and an age-appropriate start with sex, bodies and relationships education! The perfect complement to any school curriculum.

Growing Up

Growing Up
Author: Brad Wilcox
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2000
Genre: Sex
ISBN: 9781573458214

100 Questions You'd Never Ask Your Parents

100 Questions You'd Never Ask Your Parents
Author: Elisabeth Henderson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2007-10
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0615165184

Addressing the most sensitive of subjects in a real voice and a nonjudgmentalmanner, this volume imparts factually sound answers, intending to remove boththe mystery and the stigma from unmentionable topics. (Youth Issues)

Tell Me

Tell Me
Author: Katharina von der Gathen
Publisher: Gecko Press (Tm)
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2019
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1776572327

How much sex education do children need? As much as they ask for, say the experts. And exactly what do children want to know? Ask them This book collects real questions asked by children in classes about the human body, love, and sexuality. The answers are both direct and warmhearted, giving children the information they really want to know in a form they can relate to. This is a book for both boys and girls that is relevant to today's conversations about sexuality. It brings humor and lightness to help families comfortably approach this topic that many find awkward.

The Girls' Guide to Sex Education

The Girls' Guide to Sex Education
Author: Michelle Hope
Publisher: Rockridge Press
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2018-02-20
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781939754387

When it comes to sex education, parents of adolescent girls often know just as little about where to start as girls themselves. Even the mention of sex education or puberty can make everyone feel uncomfortable, nervous, or insecure. In The Girls' Guide to Sex Education, award-winning youth sex education expert Michelle Hope offers down-to-earth, supportive sex education guidance as she addresses the most pressing questions that girls have about sex, puberty, and relationships-directly and without judgment. The Girls' Guide to Sex Education will arm girls with a complete understanding of their body and, as a result, will empower them to make informed, healthy decisions.