It's Perfectly Normal (2021 Edition)

Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, Gender, and Sexual Health
Includes 4 tactile illustrations
Ages 10 and up

Puberty and growing up is a confusing, awkward, and uncomfortable time in any young person's life. This updated and age-appropriate edition teaches children ages 10 and up about their changing bodies, gender, sex, and sexual health. It answers children's questions about issues like the reproductive system and puberty, and covers other fundamental topics such as intercourse, birth, birth control, sexual health, abuse, issues of responsibility, and respect.

2021 updates include: the importance of consent, sexual health awareness, the sensitive subject of sexual abuse, methods and advances in contraception, gender identity, LGBTQIA topics, destigmatization of HIV/AIDS, and the role of social media for all its good and bad.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction: Lots of Questions
Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, Gender, and Sexual

PART ONE: What Is Sex?
Babies, Kids, Preteens, Teens, Grown-Ups: Sex and Gender
Making Babies: Sexual Reproduction
Strong Feelings: Sexual Desire
Making Love: Sexual Intercourse
Who We Are: Straight, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, +

PART TWO: Our Bodies
The Human Body: All Kinds of Bodies
Outside and Inside: Our Sex Organs
Words: Talking About Bodies and Sex

PART THREE: Puberty
Changes and Messages: Puberty and Hormones
The Travels of the Egg: Eggs and Puberty
The Travels of the Sperm: Sperm and Puberty
Not All at Once! Growing and Changing Bodies
More changes! Taking care of your body
Back and Forth, Up and Down: New and Changing Feelings
Perfectly Normal: Masturbation

PART FOUR: Families and Babies
All Sorts of Families: Taking Care of Babies and Kids
Instructions — Information: the Cell: Genes and Chromosomes
A Kind of Sharing: Cuddling, Kissing, Touching, and Sexual Intercourse
Before Birth: Pregnancy
What a Trip! Birth
Other Arrivals: More Ways to Have a Baby and Family

PART FIVE: Decisions
Planning Ahead: Delay, Postpone, Abstain, Prevent, Control
Laws and Rulings: Abortion

PART SIX: Staying Healthy
Helpful — Fun — Creepy — Dangerous: the Internet and You
Talk About It: Sexual Abuse
Getting a Checkup: Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Scientists Working Day and Night: HIV and AIDS
Staying Healthy: Responsible Choices