1. What's Happening to My Body? Book for Girls : A Growing Up Guide for Parents and Daughters (Paperback) 2. Lynda Madaras 3/4. I think my mom was planning on giving it to me when I was 11 or 12, but I found it when I was 8 or 9 and would steal it from it's spot on her shelf and read it and then put it back. So by the time she gave it to me and tried to give me the period talk, I already knew it all. 5. I liked how the book gave scientific information and detailed pictures without being intimidating for a young girl. There was also a section about puberty in boys, and information about masturbation, relationships, and homosexuality, if I remember correctly. I learned a lot from it.
I also read The Care and Keeping of You, which I didn't really enjoy because it seemed like it really dumbed down a lot of topics. And I found my mom's copy of Our Bodies, Ourselves and read parts of it. I think I was too young to understand a lot of Our Bodies, Ourselves (probably because I was so young I thought boys had cooties and couldn't imagine why anyone would ever want to have sex).
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Date: 2009-05-05 08:19 pm (UTC)2. Lynda Madaras
3/4. I think my mom was planning on giving it to me when I was 11 or 12, but I found it when I was 8 or 9 and would steal it from it's spot on her shelf and read it and then put it back. So by the time she gave it to me and tried to give me the period talk, I already knew it all.
5. I liked how the book gave scientific information and detailed pictures without being intimidating for a young girl. There was also a section about puberty in boys, and information about masturbation, relationships, and homosexuality, if I remember correctly. I learned a lot from it.
I also read The Care and Keeping of You, which I didn't really enjoy because it seemed like it really dumbed down a lot of topics. And I found my mom's copy of Our Bodies, Ourselves and read parts of it. I think I was too young to understand a lot of Our Bodies, Ourselves (probably because I was so young I thought boys had cooties and couldn't imagine why anyone would ever want to have sex).