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Early Puberty in Girls: The Essential Guide to Coping with This Common Problem

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This book was helpful in some aspects, but too many "studies". I was looking for more basic info, not about percentages, minorities or case histories. Just the facts and ideas on how to cope with early puberty. I have a 9 year old daughter going through puberty right now and this book didn't help much with helping me deal with the emotional aspect of what I or my daughter are feeling.

The book is clear and well written. Very informative for parents of girls with possible precocious puberty. Two deficiencies: (1) the book is outdated. some of the info no longer applies due to the fast pace of medical advances. Confirm what you read with your daughter's doctor. (2) Dr. Kaplowitz has an agenda in this book--to lay out his arguments for the criteria and proper treatments for early puberty. These arguments are based on previous contentious disagreements on the criteria and proper treatments for precocious puberty in girls, arguments that occurred in highly public venues some years back, between him and other pediatric endocrinologists. His arguments are logical (i.e., based on clinical evidence), but there are also compelling arguments to be found from the "opposition", which is not presented in an unbiased way. Some and even many of these arguments are bound to be irrelevant because the book is now pretty old, as mentioned above. 8 years is a very long time in clinical biomedical research.

These aspects make the book less valuable as a resource for parents trying to choose a doctor or understand the recommendations of their doctor and their implications. However, given the limited field of lay literature in this area, the book is still worth reading if one is aware of these caveats.

For a parent facing a daughter's early puberty, this book provides answers in easy-to-read language. It is an excellent book.

i bought this for a research paper i had to do, and it was especially helpful, the best research i found on the topic, and it was also helpful when i had to talk to my little sister about puberty