It's Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health (The Family Library)
Candlewick - Candlewick
Release date: 2004-07-22
Paperback
Author: Robie H. Harris
Juvenile Nonfiction, Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Nonfiction, Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9), Health & Daily Living - Maturing, Health & Daily Living - Sexuality & Pregnancy, Juvenile Nonfiction / Health & Daily Living / Personal Hygiene, Health & Daily Living - General, Hygiene, Sexual, Juvenile literature, Sex instruction for children, Sex instruction for teenagers
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It's Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health (The Family Library)
Date undefinedYes perhaps there is a liberal bias to the book, but the bottom line is that for parents who are too nervous to be honest with their children about these issues, this book is a high quality alternative option. My mom bought it for me when I confessed my fears of puberty, getting my period, and the fact that girls I knew had been masturbating since the age of six. I needed to know that masturbation was not going to send me to hell, and my mother certainly wasn't going to broach that subject. I also appreciated the take on normalizing homosexuality, a subject I was exceedingly curious about at the time. I needed the information on contraceptives and it provided it to me. Is it better to be ignorant and then end up pregnant at 14 or to be given the relevant information before experimentation starts? Keep in mind most kids begin experimenting with sex in the 6th grade... Conservative voices should remember that their kids are at risk too, and their kids deserve to be informed as much as anyone.
It's Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health (The Family Library)
Date undefined"It's Perfectly Normal" is an excellent sex education guide for older kids
and teenagers. It describes sex and sexuality frankly both in text and in
well-done cartoons. Only the most prudish would be offended by this book.
It's Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health (The Family Library)
Date undefinedThis book touches on more subjects than I had anticipated. I read the book with my daughter and at first I thought I would skip some areas, but know if my daughter does not hear it from me, she WILL hear it from someone else.
