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All About Sex : A Family Resource of Sex & Sexuality
by Planned Parenthood The meat of this book is its clear and complete explanations of human reproduction and sexual pleasure; of sexually transmitted infections; and of birth-control options - for families with teens and preteens. |
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Before She Gets Her Period: Talking With Your Daughter About Menstruation
by Jessica B. Gillooly, Ph.D. Personal stories, exercises, and activities to help parents talk with their daughters about menstruation-even if their daughters don't want to talk. |
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Beyond the Big Talk: Every Parent's Guide to Raising Sexually Healthy Teens From Middle School to High School and Beyond
by Debra W. Haffner, M.P.H. Haffner describes adolescent developement, and steps parents can take to help their children make responsible choices and become seuxally healthy young adults. |
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Breeder: Real-Life Stories from the New Generation of Mothers
by Ariel Gore In this ground-breaking anthology, Ariel Gore and Bee Lavender ask real moms — from Web site designers to tattoo-clad waitresses — to laugh, cry, scream, and shout about motherhood. |
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Dads and Daughters : How to Inspire, Understand, and Support Your Daughter When She's Growing Up SoFast
by Joe Kelly From father to father and with insights from many other dads, Joe Kelly shows men how they can strengthen their relationships with their daughters and explores the tremendous rewards this relationship can bring. |
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Dilemmas of Desire : Teenage Girls Talk about Sexuality
by Deborah L. Tolman "Girls are the objects of boys' sexual desires and have no desires of their own." In this provocative study, Tolman, a researcher at Wellesley College, turns this notion upside down. |
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From Diapers to Dating: A Parent's Guide to Raising Sexually Healthy Children--From Infancy to Middle School
by Debra W. Haffner, M.P.H. Whether she is discussing how to help kids with the onslaught of sexual messages they see in the media or providing sensible guidance on teaching the facts of life, Debra Haffner's approach to raising sexually healthy children is informative and comforting. |
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Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex
by Judith Levine "In America today, it is nearly impossible to publish a book that says children and teenagers can have sexual pleasure and be safe too," writes journalist Levine (My Enemy, My Love). Levine has somehow pulled that off. |
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Heather Has Two Mommies
by Leslea Newman The story of Heather, a preschooler with two moms who discovers that some of her friends have very different sorts of families. |
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I'm Gonna Like Me : Letting Off a Little Self-Esteem
by Jamie Lee Curtis and Laura Cornell Actor Jamie Lee Curtis and winsome illustrator Laura Cornell continue their successful collaboration (Today I Feel Silly, When I Was Little, et al.) with this paean to poise and self-assurance, I'm Gonna Like Me. Young readers will like Curtis's words and the rhythmic repetition, but it's Cornell's scribbling, reminiscent of the New Yorker's Roz Chast, that makes the book stand out. |
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It's So Amazing: A Book About Eggs, Sperm, Birth, Babies, and Families
by Robie H. Harris The creators of It's Perfectly Normal, targeted to middle-schoolers, here reach out to a slightly younger audience with candor and humor, neatly distilling various aspects of sex, reproduction and love. |
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King & King
by Linda de Haan and Stern Nijland A queen, tired of ruling, decides it's time for her son to marry and assume the throne. The prince reluctantly agrees, "I must say, though, I've never cared much for princesses." The queen arranges for a parade of princesses to meet her son, but the prince doesn't feel any sparks until the final candidate shows up with her brother. The two princes fall in love, marry, and rule the kingdom together. |
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Lesbian and Gay Parenting Handbook : Creating and Raising Our Families
by April Martin A much needed book that addresses the many questions and important issues associated with lesbian and gay parenting, by a well-known psychotherapist and lesbian parent. |
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My Feelings, My Self: A Growing-Up Journal for Girls, Second Edition (What's Happening to My Body? Series)
by Lynda Madaras with Area Madaras them. Why don't my parents ever listen to me? Can I tell a boy that I like him? How do I say "no" to friends when they want me to do things I don't want to? Answers to these questions and more are what's in this fun- and fact-filled book as well as quizzes, exercises, stories and letters from kids expressing feelings about the changes going on in their lives during adolescence. |
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Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and Other Realities of Adolescence
by Rosalind Wiseman This groundbreaking book takes you inside the secret world of girls’ friendships, translating and decoding them, so parents can better understand and help their daughters navigate through these crucial years. |
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Raising a Child Responsibly in a Sexually Permissive World
by Sol Gordon, Ph.D. and Judith Gordon, M.S.W. This book provides practical advice that covers a wide range of issues, such as: self-esteem, how families have changed, the media's sexual messages, school sex education, why kids need more than "just say no", and how to help kids understang the feelings of being "in love." |
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Raising Cain : Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys
by Dan Kindlon, Ph.D. and Michael Thompson, Ph.D. In Raising Cain two of the country's leading child psychologists share what they have learned in more than thirty-five years of combined experience working with boys and their families. They reveal a nation of boys who are hurting--sad, afraid, angry, and silent. |
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Raising Their Voices: The Politics of Girls' Anger
by Lyn Mikel Brown The book, liberally seasoned with the girls' rowdy, clever, conflicted talk, reveals a vast difference between the role-stereotype pressure on working-class girls and their middle- class counterparts, and offers the news that all girls do not simply acquiesce to the constrictions of American culture, nor, if given the right support, do they need to. |
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Reaching Up for Manhood : Transforming the Lives of Boys in America
by Geoffrey Canada Canada writes indelibly of the young boy he once was and of the crucial issues fatherhood, healing, mentors, self-esteem, faith, and more that must be negotiated as boys in America reach up for manhood. |
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Real Boys : Rescuing Our Sons From The Myths of Boyhood
by William Pollack, Ph.D. Based on William Pollack's groundbreaking research at Harvard Medical School over two decades, Real Boys explores why many boys are sad, lonely, and confused although they may appear tough, cheerful, and confident. |
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by Leslea Newman Newman tells a story of how a child feels when his two mommies separate and break up the family. |
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Sex and Sensibility: The Thinking Parent's Guide to Talking Sense About Sex
by Deborah Roffman With a rare directness and clarity about sex and reproduction, sexual values, and cultural influences on sexuality, Deborah Roffman challenges and teaches readers how to develop a blueprint for opening the lines of communication with children of all ages. |
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Sexual Cultures and the Construction of Adolescent Identities
by Janice M. Irvine, Editor This rich collection of essays presents a new vision of adolescent sexuality shaped by a variety of social factors: race and ethnicity, gender, sexual identity, physical ability, and cultural messages propagated in films, books, and within families. |
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Ten Talks Parents Must Have with Their Children About Sex and Character
by Pepper Schwartz, Ph.D. and Dominic Capello Ten Talks offers advice on exactly how to begin and what to say -- not just about sex, but about safety, character, peer pressure, ethics, meeting people on the internet, and mixed messages from TV. |
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The Mother Trip: Hip Mama's Guide to Staying Sane in the Chaos of Motherhood
by Ariel Gore In The Mother Trip, her follow-up to the cult classic Ariel Gore offers the kind of down-to-earth, truthful mothering conversations that you'd expect to have with a best girlfriend. |
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The Sex Lives of Teenagers: Revealing the Secret World of Adolescent Boys and Girls
by Lynn Ponton, M.D. The best course of action might be for parents to read this book together with their teens, and to use some of the stories as jumping-off points for discussion. As Ponton makes clear in the opening chapter, all teens have sex lives--whether or not they are sexually active. |
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Venus in Blue Jeans
by Nathalie Bartle, Ed.D. with Susan LIeberman, Ph.D. In this groundbreaking book, Nathalie Bartle shows mothers how to help guide their daughters safely through the fears, intimacies, and sexual choices of adolescence. |