This is the best book on being a teenager that I have ever read! And this should mean a lot to you coming from a teen (I'm a 15 year old male). It's different from other books in that it encourages teens to make their own decisions in life. It doesn't come out and say, "No! Sex is bad! You will rot in hell if you have sex before you are married!" Instead, it gives equal reasons of why to have sex and why not to and then describes all the means of birth control. But it doesn't just deal with sex, it also touches on emotions that you might have through adolecence, masturbation, what you can do if you do become pregnent, and even drugs.
His father won't talk to him about sex and he is too embarrassed to talk with me. In fact, I had to leave it in his room and he swore he wouldn't look at it. That he had learned everything he needed to know in 1 week of sex ed at school (!)
2 weeks later he thanked me for buying it. Still trying to keep the lines of communication open but at least now I know he is armed with knowledge.This book is an outstanding volume for all teens. It is full of information that they need for making healthy choices through their teen years. It does not promote any single ideology, or push a certain set of values or choices. It gives information that the teen may only get hodge-podge through friends, conversations with parents or some school programs. Also, the book is full of quotes from interviews with teens. So, the teen hears the feelings and ideas in a form that they can "hear", not an adult voice telling them what to do. Far more approachable for teens. This one's a must!I ordered Changing Bodies, Changing Lives for my son, who is just hitting puberty. I own Our Bodies Ourselves so I expected a high caliber book, and it didn't disappoint. I paged through it before I gave it to him and was reassured to see that it delivers the same kind of honest, nonjudgmental, thorough information as OBOS does.
It handles not only the standard "puberty" information of sexual anatomy, safer sex and drugs, but also emotional and social areas like negotiating increased independence from parents, the sometimes confusing nature of sexual and romantic orientation, and body image and individuality. The material quoted from teens is frank and unpolished and helps to highlight that other people have probably experienced some of the same things the reader has. The book's approach is clearly that everyone is different, there is no one right way to navigate the difficult teenage years, and that everyone needs to be informed to make their own choices.
I don't know why people reviewed the pictures as looking out of date. Maybe it's regional but I was pleasantly surprised that they looked very current. (It may seem like a small thing but I remember how hard it is, when you're a teen, to take advice from a book that sounds like it's old and clueless.)
I didn't expect my son to be too interested in it yet but he looked at it for some time and shared a few things that he found surprising or interesting. His verdict is "Huh. They just tell kids what we need to know. That's kind of neat" which lets me know this was the right book to get.
I have no agenda except to facilitate my children growing up as healthy, well-adjusted and happy as possible. Because of that my priority was to place the most unbiased and complete information I could into their hands. I am very happy with this book and very glad I can trust that my children will not be misinformed or have information withheld from them because of someone else's agenda.I have given this book to both of my younger siblings, boy and girl. I research human sexuality and therefore appreciate the balanced, medically accurate information this book provides. It does a good job of presenting different social views on human sexuality without endorsing any one view. A great resource for adolescents and a great way to make up the education gap for all the innacurate and missing info in their health classes.
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