Help Your Kids with Adolescence: A No-Nonsense Guide to Puberty and the Teenage Years

by DK

Overview

Deal with the ups and downs of growing up. This visual guide to puberty and adolescence is a must-read for all parents and tweens embarking on those scary teenage years. 

This growing up book covers contemporary issues such as internet safety and tackles key topics such as sexuality and body image. Demystify puberty with this must-read home reference book.

 
From your menstrual cycle to sexting, and even cyber-bullying.

This straightforward, unpatronizing approach to tricky topics is the essential illustrated guide to adolescence for both parents and their teens. The stunning graphics and illustrations make this invaluable for tweens and teens alike.

Help Your Kids With Adolescence is a guide for modern kids coming into their teen years. It addresses topical issues like body image, the effects of social media, and sexting. It also offers a biological explanation for the physical side of being a teenager from mood swings, periods, and breaking voices. This book offers a no-nonsense, non-judgemental approach to help parents and their kids navigate their way through puberty and adolescence.  

Sexuality, Confidence, Social Media, Emotions, Stress!

Puberty and adolescence can be a confusing and complex time. Help Your Kids With Adolescence offers straightforward advice to help parents and children survive and thrive during the turbulent teenage years. Emotional well-being, physical changes, online safety, family dynamics, relationships, sexuality, and much more are discussed and explained through jargon-free text and simple, clear illustrations. 

Engaging graphics and illustrations make this modern, comprehensive guide to adolescence invaluable for tweens and teens alike. Whether as a quick-reference guide or cover-to-cover read.

This self-understanding and self-development book will discuss and explain the following topics:

- Growing Up
- Female Puberty
- Male Puberty
- Healthy Body
- Healthy Mind
- Achieving Potential 
- Digital Life
- Sexuality
- Relationships 
- And more.

DK’s bestselling Help Your Kids With series contains crystal-clear visual breakdowns of important subjects. Simple graphics and jargon-free text are key to making this series a user-friendly resource for frustrated parents who want to help with children get the most out of life. Get help with anything from geography and music to maths, SATs, and growing up.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781465461841
Publisher:	DK
Publication date:	07/04/2017
Series:	Help Your Kids
Pages:	256
Sales rank:	1,110,678
Product dimensions:	7.70(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

US Consultant Dr. Karen Rayne provides advice and support to parents on how to educate their children and teenagers about sex and sexuality. Karen's knowledge about adolescent development and education provides her with a solid background for guiding parents through these tricky conversations. She also moonlights as a sex educator for children and adults. Recently, she authored Breaking the Hush Factor: Ten Rules for Talking with Teenagers about Sex. She lives in Austin, TX.

Table of Contents

Foreword Karen Rayne 6

How to use this book 10

1 Growing up

Teen brains 14

Identity 16

Thinking independently 18

Mood swings 20

Self-expression 22

Gender 24

2 Female puberty

What is puberty? 28

Female hormones 30

Changing body 32

Female sex organs 34

The menstrual cycle 36

Menstrual care 38

Breasts 40

Bras 42

3 Male puberty

What is puberty? 46

Male hormones 48

Changing body 50

Testicles 52

The penis 54

Breaking voices 56

4 Healthy body

Keeping clean 60

Sweat and smells 62

Body hair 64

Pimples 66

Healthy eating 68

Eating disorders 70

Body image 72

Exercise 74

Sleep 76

Teen ailments 78

5 Healthy mind

Positive mental health 82

Emotions 84

Confidence and self-esteem 86

Introversion and extroversion 88

Resilience 90

Stress 92

Anxiety and depression 94

Panic attacks and phobias 96

Self-harm 98

6 Achieving potential

School life 102

Tests and studying 104

Problem solving 106

Hobbies and interests 108

Money matters 110

Goals and ambitions 112

Career advice 114

Types of career 116

Going to college 118

Alternatives to college 120

Getting a job 122

Speaking up 124

7 Digital life

The Internet 128

Social media 130

Digital self 132

Making judgments 134

Digital habits 136

Cyberbullying 138

Staying safe online 140

Privacy 142

Gaming 144

8 Wider world

Safer streets 148

Bullying 150

Discrimination 152

Equality 154

Religion 156

Citizenship

Understanding the news 160

Alcohol 162

Smoking 164

Drug use and abuse 166

Types of drugs 168

9 Families

Different families 172

Parent-teen relationships 174

Building trust 176

Dealing with conflict 178

Difficult events 180

Siblings 182

10 Relationships

Communication skills 186

Friendships 188

Interactions 190

Peer pressure 192

Dating 194

Rejection 196

Healthy relationships 198

Unhealthy relationships 200

Breakups 202

11 Sexuality

Sexuality 206

Different sexual identities 208

Attraction 210

Coming out 212

12 Sex

Masturbation 216

Virginity 218

Consent 220

Intimacy 222

Sex 224

Orgasms 226

Sexual reproduction 228

Safer sex 230

Contraception 232

Bacterial and parasitic STDs 234

Viral STDs 236

Pregnancy 238

Pregnancy choices 240

Pornography 242

Sexting 244

Find out more 246

Glossary 248

Index 252

Acknowledgments 256

Editorial Reviews

"Every page of the book… creates a welcoming and familiar atmosphere for learning about a potentially intimidating subject." — GeekDad

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