Dr. Ruth Talks to Kids: Where You Came From, How Your Body Changes, and What Sex is All about

by Ruth Westheimer and Westheimer

Book Overview

When it comes to questions about where babies come from, the way in which boys' and girls' bodies change as they're growing up, and what sex is all about, few people know all the right answers. In this book, Dr Ruth addresses childrens' concerns with warmth and frankness. Topics in Dr Ruth Talks to Kids include physical changes in adolescent bodies and the feelings that go along with them, responsible decision-making about sex, contraception myths...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0027925323
• ISBN13: 9780027925326
• Release Date: April 1993
• Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.3" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

Great.

Perfect book for those that want to teach their children without the burden of religion. Very responsible advice.

This is a great book.

When my daughter was about 10 I realized that my technique of answering questions she asked but not going into more detail than she asked about no longer worked. She suddenly knew just enough to be embarrassed to ask about anything! She really hated it if I brought The Subject (sex) up, so thinking that she just didn't want to associate The Subject with her mother (I can certainly understand that!) I got her a book that she could read privately. She refused to even look at it. So I read it to her as a bedtime story. We shut the door and read it over three or four nights. It's a pitch-perfect book. I'm so glad my daughter wouldn't listen to me -- hearing it from Dr. Ruth, with her open-minded, loving yet clinical, detached, scientific yet human perspective was truly informative, interesting, and empowering. That was three years ago and my daughter is very calm and realistic as she, and her whole 7th grade class, surf through puberty. I'm buying it again because I raved about it so much that I lent it out and haven't seen it for two years and now the little sister needs a turn.

A resonable, responsible voice

I love Dr. Ruth. A rational approach to sexual development and an excellent investment.