Anyone recommend books on puberty please?

Person_one

My response was clearly to Nicki's post (you can tell by the fact that I quoted it) which was more general than your specific situation, and in which she stated that leaving the puberty talk till somewhere between 10-13 was fine. I disagree, and stated why.

No need to get your knickers in such a twist.

dll74

Ok thanks for that. Some of the replies looked to me like they were assuming facts not in evidence iyswim.

TimBear

I haven't read all the replies but Dr. Christian's Guide to Growing Up is meant to be quite good - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dr-Christians-Guide-Growing-Up/dp/1407132717/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1361440661&sr=1-1.

suejb2

My daughter is 10 and I have bought her "What's Happening to Me?" it has both a girls and boys version.

shays_mum

Bloody hell i am well behind, i have a dd in a strict Christian primary school & they will not be covering sex ed whilst the kids are there, she's gonna get a shock in secondary school!!:eek:

Thanks for the reading titles, don't know if i should give her a book, or like me find out at school anyway?!

balletshoes

shays_mum wrote: »

Bloody hell i am well behind, i have a dd in a strict Christian primary school & they will not be covering sex ed whilst the kids are there, she's gonna get a shock in secondary school!!:eek:

Thanks for the reading titles, don't know if i should give her a book, or like me find out at school anyway?!

how old is she and is she showing any signs of starting puberty yet? My DD was showing signs by age 9, I got her the book and started talking to her then - and I'm not leaving it up to school to fill out her sex education.

totallybored

I'd say give them as much info as possible. At that age I used to be reading More magazine and its position of the week (i remember all the girls in my form class giggling over it). They probably know a lot more than you think. Teenage girls are also reading their mum's copies of that 50 shades nonsense these days too.

loracan1

suejb2 wrote: »

My daughter is 10 and I have bought her "What's Happening to Me?" it has both a girls and boys version.

My eleven year old has this - he'd been asking me questions and I'd been doing my best but dug this out as it'd been bought for his older brother. It suited him down to the ground, covered everything we'd talked about and a bit more besides - he's read it cover to cover a few times now...and eventually stopped collapsing into giggles everytime he read the word 'vagina'.


Now ~ how do I get him to stop asking stuff like;
"Mum, why do you have sex in the middle of Sussex and Essex" as we're walking through Marks and Spencers - anyone?