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Puberty

This edition of ReCAPP focuses on puberty. It includes:

three learning activities with accompanying handouts and worksheets:
- Puberty and Growing Up — designed for youth to help them understand and cope with the physical and emotional changes that occur during puberty
- Puberty and Adolescent Development — designed for parents to help them describe the physical and emotional changes that occur during puberty and be comfortable answering their children's questions about puberty, and
- Desarrollo en La Pubertad y La Adolescencia — a Spanish version of the above learning activity for parents
two research summaries:
- Secondary Sexual Characteristics in Boys — a study that examines the stages of puberty among boys of different races and ethnicities, and
- Secondary Sexual Characteristics in Young Girls — a recent study that updates existing knowledge of the onset of puberty in young girls

More information and resources related to the topic of puberty are included below:

More Information/Resources

Suggested Books and Curricula:

Estoy Cambiando: Mi cuerpo
By Susan Pick, Martha Givaudan & Silvia Pick
IMIFAP
Málaga Norte Núm. 25
Col. Insurgentes Mixcoac
03920 México, D.F.
611-58-76
imifap@datasys.com.mx
Hablemos Acerca del…Sexo: un libro para toda la familia acerca del la pubertad
By Lorri Foster & Sam Gitchel
Translated by Jenny Rizo-Patrón
Planned Parenthood of Central California
633 North Van Ness Ave.
Fresno, CA 93728
209/486-2411
Hair in Funny Places: a book about puberty
By Babette Cole
New York: Hyperion, 2000
It's Perfectly Normal
By R.H. Harris
Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, 1995
The Period Book: Everything you don't want to ask (but need to know)
By K. Gravelle
United States: Walker, 1996
Puberty & Reproduction: Comprehensive Health for the Middle Grades
By Catherine Golliher
ETR Associates
Santa Cruz, CA, 1994
800/321-4407
www.etr.org
Puberty: The Wonder Years
A curriculum by Wendy L. Sellers
Central Michigan University
800/214-8961
www.emc.cmich.edu/products/puberty/R0500P.htm
The Seventeen Guide to Sex and your Body
By S. Solin
New York: Aladdin Paperbacks, 1996
What's Happening to My Body? Book for Boys…
A Growing Up Guide for Parents and Sons
By Lynda Madaras
Newmarket Press
New York, NY 1988
212/832-3575
What's Happening to My Body? Book for Girls…
A Growing Up Guide for Parents and Daughters
By Lynda Madaras
Newmarket Press
New York, NY 1988
212/832-3575
Your Body, Yourself: A guide to your changing body
By A. Bell & L. Rooney
Chicago: RGA Publishing Group, 1996

Suggested Pamphlets and Flip Charts:

Menstruation Facts
(Pamphlet)
ETR Associates
800/321-4407
www.etr.org
Menstruation: Talking with Your Daughter
(Pamphlet)
ETR Associates
800/321-4407
www.etr.org
101 Ways to Survive Puberty
(Pamphlet)
ETR Associates
800/321-4407
www.etr.org
Puberty
(Flip Chart)
ETR Associates
800/321-4407
www.etr.org
Puberty Facts
(Pamphlet)
ETR Associates
800/321-4407
www.etr.org
Puberty: Incredible Facts
(Pamphlet)
ETR Associates
800/321-4407
www.etr.org
Puberty: What's Normal, What's Not
(Pamphlet)
ETR Associates
800/321-4407
www.etr.org
Reproductive Anatomy and Physiology
(Flip Chart)
ETR Associates
800/321-4407
www.etr.org

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Suggested Videos:

Beyond Puberty for Girls
(33 minutes)
ETR Associates
800/321-4407
www.etr.org
Beyond Puberty for Guys
(33 minutes)
ETR Associates
800/321-4407
www.etr.org
Beyond Puberty for Guys and Girls
(33 minutes)
ETR Associates
800/321-4407
www.etr.org
Boy Stuff
(16 minutes)
ETR Associates
800/321-4407
www.etr.org
Girl Stuff
(20 minutes)
ETR Associates
800/321-4407
www.etr.org
Puberty for Boys
(21 minutes)
ETR Associates
800/321-4407
www.etr.org
Puberty for Girls
(25 minutes)
ETR Associates
800/321-4407
www.etr.org
What Kids Want to Know About Sex and Growing Up
(60 minutes)
ETR Associates
800/321-4407
www.etr.org