Books about puberty (boy and girl)

[Anonymous]

Hello all - I really want to get a few books on puberty for my kids (boy and girl twins).

Is the American Girl "The Care and Keeping of You" book still the hot topic? I've heard really good things about it but would love other suggestions if you have them! Or reviews if you bought that book for your child.

Also, any recommendations for books for boys? I'm having less success in finding a good one.

Thank you!

[Anonymous]

My DD really liked "The Care and Keeping of You". I'd definitely recommend starting with that one.

For my DS I got him something like The Boys Body Book, but I doubt he opened it once. I'd be curious to hear if other boys read, or at least flipped through books like that. My DS hasn't opened a non-school book since he read Capt. Underpants in 3rd grade.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DD really liked "The Care and Keeping of You". I'd definitely recommend starting with that one.

For my DS I got him something like The Boys Body Book, but I doubt he opened it once. I'd be curious to hear if other boys read, or at least flipped through books like that. My DS hasn't opened a non-school book since he read Capt. Underpants in 3rd grade.

Thank you! I remember my mom reading the book we had with me during a few afternoons and I was able to ask any questions as they came up. I'd love to do the same with my DD and my DH would do the same with DS. So hopefully even if he never flips through it himself, he'll have his dad to go through it and ask questions

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hello all - I really want to get a few books on puberty for my kids (boy and girl twins).

Is the American Girl "The Care and Keeping of You" book still the hot topic? I've heard really good things about it but would love other suggestions if you have them! Or reviews if you bought that book for your child.

Also, any recommendations for books for boys? I'm having less success in finding a good one.

Thank you!

I didn’t like it. I flipped through it in Barnes and Nobel and thought there was a lot of talk about weight that may not be applicable to all tween girls. For instance they have a lot of Q and A type write ins where girls are asking if they are fat, saying they feel fat and everyone else seems thin, just a lot of “am I fat, I want to be skinny” type stuff. They address is appropriately but that isn’t on my daughter’s radar and I don’t want her to get the idea that most teenage girls think of themselves as fat or wanting to be “thin”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hello all - I really want to get a few books on puberty for my kids (boy and girl twins).

Is the American Girl "The Care and Keeping of You" book still the hot topic? I've heard really good things about it but would love other suggestions if you have them! Or reviews if you bought that book for your child.

Also, any recommendations for books for boys? I'm having less success in finding a good one.

Thank you!

I didn’t like it. I flipped through it in Barnes and Nobel and thought there was a lot of talk about weight that may not be applicable to all tween girls. For instance they have a lot of Q and A type write ins where girls are asking if they are fat, saying they feel fat and everyone else seems thin, just a lot of “am I fat, I want to be skinny” type stuff. They address is appropriately but that isn’t on my daughter’s radar and I don’t want her to get the idea that most teenage girls think of themselves as fat or wanting to be “thin”

Ugh, thanks so much for this! I still remember my mother giving my cousin a barbie for her birthday one year and my aunt pulling her aside telling her they don't do barbies because she didn't want her daughter to think that was a normal body type. I was older and even then I *never* would have thought that was something to aspire to. Anyway, you do you but I completely agree, I don't want to introduce this when it's not even something on my DD's radar.