The Power of Knowledge
We realize parents have lots of questions and would like to have the answers easily available, so below we’ve compiled a comprehensive resource list of websites and books. If you don't find what you're looking for or one to contact us and we'll add it to the others.
We strongly encourage you to view any website yourself before giving the information to your child or teen. This will allow you to check for age appropriate content.
Books: How to Talk With Your Teen About "Sex"
It’s Perfectly Normal - Growing Up, Changing Bodies, Sex and Sexual Health
Robie Harris (Cambridge,MA;Candelwich Press, 1994 Ages 10 and up)
How to Talk to Your Child About Sex
Linda and Richard Eyer (NewYork: Golden books, 1998)
Learning About Sex - A Guide for Children and Their Parents
Jennifer Sowle Aho (New York, NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1978)
How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & How to Listen So Kids Will Talk
Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish ( Mamaroneck, NY: International Center for Creative thinking 1990)
The Seventeen Guide to Sex and Your Body
Paula Elbirt and Sabrina Solin (Aladdin Library, 1996)
The Art of Talking with Your Teenager
Paul Swets (Adam Media Corporation 1995)
A Parent’s Guide to Teenage Sexuality
Jay Gale (New York, NY: Henry Holt and Company, Inc., 1991)
The What’s Happening to My Body? Book for Boys - A Growing Up Guide for Parents and Daughters
Lynda Madara (New York, NY: Newmarket Press, 2000)
Ten Talks Parents Must Have With Their Children About Sex and Character
Pepper Schwartz, PhD and Dominci Cappello (New York: Hyperion, 2000)
Beyond the Big Talk - every Parent’s Guide to Raising Sexually Healthy Teens-From Middle School
To High School and Beyond; Debra Hafner (Newmarket Press, 2001)
Sex and Sensibility - The Thinking Parent’s Guide to Talking Sense About Sex
Deborah Roffman (Perseus Books, 2000)
What’s the Big Secret? Talking About Sex With Girls and Boys
Laurie Krasny Brown, Ed.D. and Marc Brown (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1997)
Books: About Daughters & For Daughters
Celebrating Girls - Nurturing and Empowering Our Daughters
Virginia Beane Rutter (Berkely, CA: Conari Press, 1996)
Embrassing Persephone - How to be the Mother You Want for the Daughter You Cherish
Virgina Beane Rutter (Berkely, CA:Conari Press, 2000)
What’s Happening to My Body? Book for Girls - Growing Up Guide for Parents & Daughters
Lynda Madaras (New York, NY: Newmarket Press, 2000)
Books: About “Periods” and Puberty
Period - A Girl’s Guide to Menstruation With a Parent Guide
JoAnn Loulan et al. (Book Peddler, 2001)
Getting Your Period
Jean Marzollo (New York, Ny:Newmarket Press, 2000)
The Period Book
Karen Gravelle & Jennifer Gravelle (Walker and Company, New York,1996)
The Care & Keeping of YOU, The Body Book for Girls
Valorie Lee Schaefer, (Pleasant Company Publications 1998) American Girl Library.
Growing It’s A Girl Thing
Mavis Jukes, (Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. 1998)
Books: About Sons
Changes in You and Me - A Book About Puberty, Most for Boys
Paulette Bourgeois et al., (Andrews McMeel Publishing, 1994)
What’s Going On Down There - Answers to Questions Boy find Hard to Ask
Karen Gravell et al., (Walker & Co, 1998)