Celebrate Your Body (and Its Changes, Too!): The Ultimate Puberty Book for Girls (Celebrate You, 1), for Girls Ages 8-12 Paperback – May 29, 2018

My daughter turned ten a few weeks ago and I wanted to start preparing her for the eventuality of her period and other bodily changes. She is gifted and a straight A+ student but she's also a very young ten maturity-wise (thank God). She does not know how babies are made really. She still plays with horse toys and dragons and Harry Potter dolls etc. We have raised her to be accepting of people no matter their sexuality. We are liberal leaning even though we're also Catholic. She is obsessed with reading and because she's so smart, it's hard to find books as she gets older that are not about catty girls or romantic relationships in any kind of physical detail (Harry Potter has been the hardest one for us so far). So many of the books about a girl's body include discussions about boys and sex -- and eating disorders, fashion etc. I don't think girls need to be thinking about that sort of stuff at this age. I'm happy to find so many of my daughter's friends' parents agree -- even some with boys who say their sons still don't really know how babies are made (they shouldn't at this age!!!). Let them be kids a while longer!! This world rips away their childhoods long before that should happen as it is! Before giving this book to my daughter, I read it cover-to-cover on my own and I LOVED it. There was nothing in this book that would spoil your unspoiled daughter. The closest the author comes is talking about how your daughter might find herself having different kinds of feelings for kids she used to think of only as friends or classmates, and that's okay. The writer doesn't say having feelings for "boys" -- she keeps it sexually neutral -- which is refreshing. It doesn't get into sex education. There is a very troubled boy in my daughter's school who routinely says inappropriate sexually charged things to her & her friends. My daughter thankfully doesn't understand most of the slang words he uses (so she comes home to ask me -- to my horror that this boy is saying such things). Well this charming young man asked my daughter the other day if she is gay. My daughter knows this term because she has an uncle who is gay and she loves him dearly. She was raised with no concept that being gay is in any way different from being straight. She was raised to know that being gay is not a choice people make -- they are born that way -- and that God doesn't make mistakes. Her answer to this boy who asked if she is gay was, "I don't know -- I haven't fallen in love with anyone yet". OMG!! I about died of pride!!! This book helped prepare her for a question of that nature. I wanted a book that explained the process of a period and the general purpose of it without prehistoric ideas of sexuality. I wanted a book that would tell her what is happening to her body without the extra street knowledge of sex. This book is very "clean" in that regard but it's also not religious or conservative -- which we didn't want either. It's as informative as it needs to be for total understanding of what's happening in puberty, written in an open-minded and progressive way, without being too advanced. It is well written. This is such a good book that I'm recommending it to everyone I know with girls this age who are like my own daughter. Bravo to the writer.

I bought different body-books for a group of 5th grade girls who started asking me questions after their health class presentation. (It was appropriate for the context of my professional role in our relationship, and I had permission from their guardians.) Each girl picked one of the books during group & we referred to each text to answer their questions. We did this for a few weeks before school ended last year and -hands down- this was the book they preferred. It was especially important to all of us that they see themselves in the pictures, and the language was both relative enough for them and clinical enough for me. The other books were fine, but based on their level of engagement with this particular book, this is the one I ended up gifting each of them at the end of the year. Highly recommend!

Helped me on how to help my kiddo understand what is going on. We have been having issues understanding each other lately and I am trying to create a level ground and smooth transition to teenage years.

This book is a thorough explanation of puberty. It does not get into discussions about sex, sexual attraction or feelings, or anything romantic. I like how thorough the book is, and I like that it discusses how girls should take care of their changing bodies. This book does contain comments that touch on the transgender topic, although it does not use the word "transgender." (As far as I've read; I haven't finished reading it yet.) It talks about the topic in a way that affirms it. For example, in the intro: "In this book I use the word "girl" to describe the gender of the humans I imagine are reading it. The word "girl" may not feel like the right word to describe you. Maybe you feel more like a boy or maybe you feel like a boy and a girl sometimes. That is okay! You don't have to feel like a girl at all to read this book and learn how your unique body works." So on and so forth. On page 25-26: " Of course, you know that is ridiculous because there is no such thing as a "real" girl. If you feel like a girl, you are a girl!" And again on at the bottom of page 51: "I was in fourth grade and did not want to be a girl...In fifth grade I took my dad's Ace bandages and tried to flatten [my breasts]. " So far those are the only instances of this I've found. I will update my review after I've finished the book.

Good for tween girls, very informative. It covers many questions that we as females may have at that age. As someone who grew up with a single father who still to this day knows little & is afraid to speak of these topics, I can totally see another single father out there needing this kind of information for his growing daughter/s. Even as a mother, there is information that is just so second nature that I forget they are still learning about themselves and their growing bodies. I love that it doesn’t dive into the topic of s3x, allowing the parents to address that on our own terms. Highly recommend.

My daughter is 11 and absolutely LOVED this book. It was very informative and covered topics I would have never thought to talk about!

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very informative