Talking Together about -- Growing Up

Talking Together about -- Growing Up

Author: Lesley Kerr-Edwards

Publisher:

Published: 2010-01

Total Pages: 82

ISBN-13: 9781905506187

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This work helps parents to explain the emotional and physical changes adolescence brings to children with learning disabilities.


Growing Up: It's a Girl Thing

Growing Up: It's a Girl Thing

Author: Mavis Jukes

Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers

Published: 1998-09-08

Total Pages: 82

ISBN-13: 0679890270

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A guide for pre-adolescent girls to the changes that puberty brings to their bodies, including information about menstruation.


Girling Up

Girling Up

Author: Mayim Bialik

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2019-05-14

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 0399548610

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Mayim Bialik, Jeopardy! host and star of The Big Bang Theory, puts her Ph.D. to work as she talks to teens about the science of growing up and getting ahead. A must-have book for all teenage girls. Growing up as a girl in today’s world is no easy task. Juggling family, friends, romantic relationships, social interests and school…sometimes it feels like you might need to be a superhero to get through it all! But really, all you need is little information. Want to know why your stomach does a flip-flop when you run into your crush in the hallway? Or how the food you put in your body now will affect you in the future? What about the best ways to stop freaking out about your next math test? Using scientific facts, personal anecdotes, and wisdom gained from the world around us, Mayim Bialik, the star of The Big Bang Theory, shares what she has learned from her life and her many years studying neuroscience to tell you how you grow from a girl to a woman biologically, psychologically and sociologically. And as an added bonus, Girling Up is chock-full of charts, graphs and illustrations -- all designed in a soft gray to set them apart from the main text and make them easy to find and read. Want to be strong? Want to be smart? Want to be spectacular? You can! Start by reading this book. Praise for Girling Up: "Bialik is encouraging without being preachy . . . many teens will be drawn to this engaging and useful book." --Booklist "Ultimately, the author stresses that 'Girling Up' does not end with adulthood—it is a lifelong journey. Thanks to Bialik, readers have a road map to make this trip memorable." --School Library Journal "Written in conversational style . . . the tone remains understanding, supportive, and respectful of the reader’s individuality throughout the text." --VOYA


Asking About Sex and Growing Up

Asking About Sex and Growing Up

Author: Joanna Cole

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 1988-05-20

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 9780688069285

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Uses a question-and-answer format to present sex information for preteens.


Talking Together

Talking Together

Author: Lorna Scott

Publisher:

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 82

ISBN-13: 9781899194964

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Offers support to parents of children with learning disabilities who are approaching or who are around the age of puberty. This work is written in an easy to follow style suitable for young people who may not be able to read. It also helps schools working in partnership with parents.


Talking Together about an Autism Diagnosis

Talking Together about an Autism Diagnosis

Author: Rachel Pike

Publisher: National Autistic Society

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13: 9781905722372

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At The National Autistic Society we are often asked about how best to talk to someone about their autism diagnosis. We feel that a person with autism has the right to know their diagnosis. Wanting to protect someone from their diagnosis can feel like the kindest thing to do, but in reality it often gets harder the longer it is delayed. There are definite advantages to talking about the diagnosis, but these vary between individuals. Many people have commented that they would like to have known earlier because knowing their diagnosis came as a relief and a source of comfort. This book offers a wealth of advice and guidance. Aimed primarily at parents and carers of younger children, it includes helpful information also for schools and for people working with adults with autism.


Someday

Someday

Author: Alison McGhee

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2015-12-15

Total Pages: 20

ISBN-13: 1481460129

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A mother reflects on the all the milestones, from walking in a deep wood to holding someone else's hand, that her child will achieve during life.


The Two Sexes

The Two Sexes

Author: Eleanor E. Maccoby

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 9780674914827

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How does being male or female shape us? And what, aside from obvious anatomical differences, does being male or female mean? In this book, the distinguished psychologist Eleanor Maccoby explores how individuals express their sexual identity at successive periods of their lives. A book about sex in the broadest sense, The Two Sexes seeks to tell us how our development from infancy through adolescence and into adulthood is affected by gender. Chief among Maccoby's contentions is that gender differences appear primarily in group, or social, contexts. In childhood, boys and girls tend to gravitate toward others of their own sex. The Two Sexes examines why this segregation occurs and how boys' groups and girls' groups develop distinct cultures with different agendas. Deploying evidence from her own research and studies by many other scholars, Maccoby identifies a complex combination of biological, cognitive, and social factors that contribute to gender segregation and group differentiation. A major finding of The Two Sexes is that these childhood experiences in same-sex groups profoundly influence how members of the two sexes relate to one another in adulthood--as lovers, coworkers, and parents. Maccoby shows how, in constructing these adult relationships, men and women utilize old elements from their childhood experiences as well as new ones arising from different adult agendas. Finally, she considers social changes in gender roles in light of her discoveries about the constraints and opportunities implicit in the same-sex and cross-sex relationships of childhood.


When Angels Speak of Love

When Angels Speak of Love

Author: bell hooks

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2007-02-06

Total Pages: 113

ISBN-13: 1416538232

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Feminist icon bell hooks reminds us of the full spectrum of feeling we spend in love through her inspiring collection of love poetry, with a new introduction by Cole Arthur Riley, author of Black Liturgies. Written from the heart, When Angels Speak of Love is a book of fifty love poems by bell hooks, one our most beloved public intellectuals, and author of over twenty books, including the bestselling All About Love. Poem after poem, hooks challenges our views and experiences with love—tracing the links between seduction and surrender, the intensity of desire, and the anguish of death. “Love must clean house, choose memories to keep, and memories to let go,” she writes. These verses are expansive yet accessible—encompassing romantic love, to love of family, friends, or oneself. In any iteration, these poems remind us of both the beauty and possibility of love.