The What's Happening to My Body? Book for Boys: A Growing Up Guide for Parents and Sons
The What's Happening to My Body? Book for Boys: A Growing Up Guide for Parents and Sons
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Publisher: W W Norton & Co
Publication year: 1987
ISBN: 0937858994
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To help boys realize that they are not alone in their concerns as they go through their transformation to manhood, they need information, and this is the best book to give and share with them. This bestselling classic, written by an experienced educator in a reassuring and down-to-earth style, has sold over 400,000 copies and been translated into 12 languages. The introduction is for the parent, the book for the young man. Readers will be comforted with honest, sensitive, non-judgmental straight talk on the body’s changing size and shape, the growth spurt, reproductive organs, voice changes, body hair, puberty in girls, and much more. This expanded Third Edition addresses questions raised in the thousands of reader letters received by the authors over the years. Material new to this edition includes more detailed discussion of penis size; expanded sections on eating right, exercise, steroid abuse, and weight training; updated advice on acne treatment; and crucial information on AIDS, STDs, and birth control appropriate for this age. Filled with illustrations and stories of boys’ real-life experiences, The “What’s Happening to My Body?” Book for Boys is a comprehensive puberty education and health book for all young boys from ages 8 to 15.