The "What's Happening to My Body" Book for Boys, Revised Third Edition (What's Happening to My Body?) (Paperback)

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Lynda Madaras takes seriously the questions asked over the years in her sex education class and gives accurate, detailed answers. -- School Library Journal

These gender-specific titles take a modern and easygoing approach to puberty....explains everything in a readable and reassuring style. -- VOYA: Voice of Youth Advocates

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Lynda Madaras takes seriously the questions asked over the years in her sex education class and gives accurate, detailed answers.—School Library Journal

These gender-specific titles take a modern and easygoing approach to puberty....explains everything in a readable and reassuring style.—VOYA: Voice of Youth Advocates

Must reading.—Ralph I. Lopez, M.D., Adolescent Clinic, The New York Hospital—Cornell Medical School

One of the most complete, well-written and clearly illustrated sex and health education texts to come off the press.—Arkansas Democrat

Your book is a most helpful teaching tool. . . Your books put the students at ease . . . many, many thanks.—Excerpt from a teacher's letter to Lynda Madaras

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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 9-12
  
• Paperback: 272 pages
• Publisher: Newmarket; 3 edition (June 25, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1557047650
• ISBN-13: 978-1557047656
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #20,794 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Solid Book for a Parent and Adolescent to go Through Together, March 31, 2008

By	Mark Merrick (Costa Mesa, CA) - See all my reviews

Previous reviews have knocked this book for presenting anatomical drawings, medical descriptions, and even slang - assumably for teaching too much. While I understand the fear a parent feels, I believe the presentation is appropriate. Further it seems important that an adolescent know these terms. They will be used by teachers and schoolmates increasingly from Junior High forward. An adolescent who does not know them will be left to their own imagination. An adolescent who has been taught the terms with the help of caring parent will feel safe. Further by going through the book together a parent can teach the child what terms are appropriate and that sexuality is something to be respected, not feared. (Parents, please don't make sexuality a frightening taboo - it will just drive your child to experience it inappropriately.)

As another review points out this book is somewhat academically written. I believe this is because the book is designed for a parent and adolescent to go through together. I would suggest presenting parts of this book beginning as early as 10 but no later than 13 - as the parent feels the child is ready for the information. There is a companion workbook that is written more in an adolescent's language - for them to read alone.

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars What's Happening to My Body - book for boys, September 3, 2007

By	Judith R. White - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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The purpose of the book for me was to read it to a 10 year old boy, to help him understand what was happening to his body and to explain sex and sexual feelings. It is written by someone who taught the subject and rather than have it as a readable book, it's more instructional and explains the author's way of teaching the subject part of the time and then it seems to become more of a book you'd read to a child entering puberty. Some areas are good and detailed and some things are written in a corny way. I would rate the book on a scale of 1 to 10 as maybe a 3. What I've had to do is read a chapter first, and then scan it as I'm explaining it to my 10 year old boy. It does cover the territory.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book to share a difficult subject, July 11, 2008

By	Paige L. Burtson "interior castle" (San Diego, CA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I bought this book years ago to help me talk to my teens. It does cover slang words (but yes -- as embarrassing as that is just reading them aloud made us laugh & took the sting/scariness out of talking about such things). It is appropriate for a child entering puberty who needs to know that his/her parents are willing to have a frank discussion. You can concentrate of the topics that are of interest to the child (ie. most boys are not going to spend to much time of drawings of hymens). It discusses the fears that some kids have as their bodies change and who knew these were issues esp. if you are the opposite sex (ie. boys being afraid they might be turning into girls with changes in their breast tissue) -- and it has actual stories written by the folks who had these fears. Without this book, I would have had a hard time developing an openness about sex with my kids. They are older now...15/17, but neither is sexually active that I know of. I am confident though that if/when they are ready, they understand they have an open discussion if they should choose to talk about it and they have the information they need to keep themselves safe & start to formulate their own beliefs about their sexuality. I think these are great books.