Description
A sensitive and informative guide to puberty for girls - tackling everything from body changes to mood swings, hormones and first periods.
Bright, cartoon-style illustrations and scientific diagrams explain the physical and emotional changes of growing up in a simple and reassuring way, while the contents and index pages make key topics easy to find.
Chapters in this book include:
- Growing up
- When will it happen?
- Taller and wider
- Getting hairy
- Getting breasts
- The bra business
- How does it start?
- What's it all about?
- The changes inside you ...
- ... and on the outside
- Why periods happen
- Using towels
- Using tampons
- Coping with periods
- Your feelings
- Good food
- More about eating
- Keep moving
- Keep clean
- From the neck up
- How boys' bodies work
- Boys have worries too
- Problems to avoid