My Body, My Self for Girls : The 'What's Happening to My Body?' Workbook - Softcover

Area Madaras, Lynda; Madaras

9781557041500: My Body, My Self for Girls : The 'What's Happening to My Body?' Workbook

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1557041504 ISBN 13: 9781557041500

Publisher: Newmarket Pr, 1993

Here are stories, quizzes, exercises, checklists, suggestions for diary-keeping, illustrations, and lots of personal anecdotes about physical changes and the differing feelings girls have about them. Everything affected by the onset of puberty is covered, from body image, diet, height, weight, pimples, cramps, to first periods, first bras, and first impressions. Drawings, cartoons, and photos illustrate the pages throughout.

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Review:

Based on the bestselling classic, What's Happening to My Body? Book for Girls, this workbook uses quizzes, exercises, personal stories, checklists, and other activities to help girls learn about the changes that will take place in their bodies during puberty. What's Happening to My Body? explores these physical and emotional changes in greater detail, but the workbook/journal invites more participation, so that girls can really get involved in the sometimes bewildering, wonderful, and scary transformations that take place as they become women. Written in a peppy, fun style, with a strong emphasis on honest, straightforward discussions, the workbook covers such topics as menstruation, acne, pubic hair, breasts, growing pains, and sex, with such chapter headings as "The Big M," "The Female Sex Organs: An Owner's Manual," and "B.O. and Zits--Is Puberty the Pits?" The information provided and questions asked are smart, sensitive, and highly relevant to girls entering puberty. Questionnaires ask girls to decide what they would do in different situations (Jan's breasts have started to develop, but she lives with her dad and is embarrassed to ask for a bra. What suggestions do you have for Jan?). Women, do you wish someone had given you some remotely useful information when you were an adolescent? Do a girl in your life a favor now and give her My Body, My Self for Girls. And don't worry, boys, there's a workbook for you, too: My Body, My Self for Boys. (Ages 8 to 15) --Emilie Coulter

About the Author:

Lynda Madaras is the author of eleven books on health, childcare, and parenting, including six from Newmarket Press. Lynda is recognized worldwide by librarians, educators, reviewers, parents, nurses, doctors--and the kids themselves--for her unique non-threatening style, excellent organization, and thorough coverage of the experience of adolescence. For more than twenty years a sex and health education teacher in Pasadena and Santa Monica, California, she has made numerous appearances on Oprah, Today, Good Morning America, CNN, PBS, and is quoted often in newspapers and magazines. She lectures frequently to teachers, librarians, nurses, health professionals, and parents' groups. She lives in California. Area Madaras was just 11 when she assisted her mother with the first "What's Happening to My Body?" book, published in 1983. (In fact, Lynda began to write it with her daughter, when she realized that there was no book available to give to Area at that time of her life.) In the ensuing years, Area has collaborated and continues to consult with her mother on other books in the Series. She has an M.A. in Communications from the Annenberg School at the University of Southern California, and has been working for six years in Internet site and content development. She lives in California.

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