Comments on: Why Talking About Puberty Is Important https://imaginationsoup.net/why-you-must-talk-about-puberty/ | Best Children's Books Tue, 09 Feb 2021 04:53:50 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Janelle https://imaginationsoup.net/why-you-must-talk-about-puberty/comment-page-1/#comment-49743 Fri, 12 Aug 2011 00:18:24 +0000 https://imaginationsoup.net/?p=10292#comment-49743 Will have to bookmark this post for the future. Seven? Yikes that’s young.

]]> By: PragmaticMom https://imaginationsoup.net/why-you-must-talk-about-puberty/comment-page-1/#comment-49570 Tue, 09 Aug 2011 19:22:21 +0000 https://imaginationsoup.net/?p=10292#comment-49570 Such good advice but such a squeamish topic for us moms. I gave my daughter a book on it and then did several q and a sessions. That worked pretty well for me and the questions she gave me were more technical in nature trying to understand a diagram of a uterus. I do think that you don’t need to reinvent the wheel as there are so many excellent books out there, but I think you have to talk about it face to face which is so HARD!

This is the list of books that readers suggested to me:

http://www.pragmaticmom.com/?p=2066

We both picked The Care and Keeping of Me. I personally gave Understanding the Facts of Life to my daughter.

]]> By: wordplayhouse™ https://imaginationsoup.net/why-you-must-talk-about-puberty/comment-page-1/#comment-49430 Mon, 08 Aug 2011 11:21:21 +0000 https://imaginationsoup.net/?p=10292#comment-49430 All good advice. I think it’s so important for the parent to be relaxed and treat the conversation as open and easy, just as if speaking about what they had for lunch or the weather. Children need to feel as much as possible that there isn’t embarrassment around the subject so they feel comfortable coming back to their parent for more questions or help.

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