Books about puberty - do any not buy into the gender woo?

@SwordToFlamethrower I think @AutumnCrow meant that she used to not see the point of the Lords/wanted Lords reform, but reassessed that view having seen the essential check the Lords are on the excesses of elected MPs.

What do you mean? He went on TV and said "you categorically cannot change your sex". His book predates gender woo

I know you are looking for your son, but for the benefit of this thread, mums of girls need to watch out for the hating your body narrative, as well as gender woo.

A lot of puberty books for girls have the default position that the reader will already think she is fat and ugly and that it is perfectly normal to think that.

Yes he's one of the Lords who rescued the terminology of the Maternity Bill and made me rethink my views on the Upper House.

I got one called the girls guide to growing up. It’s aimed at girls but no reasons why a boy couldn’t read it for information. And being a good partner when he’s older :)

Thanks @PoochiesPinkEars bought that one too!

Agree
THE best book for where babies come from is Mummy Laid An Egg by Babette Cole

www.booktrust.org.uk/book/m/mummy-laid-an-egg/

It is perfect for age five, it's all funny and realistic and as honest as you need.

I appreciate the focus on accuracy to put “facts” in quotation marks to convey that these are not actually facts at all, in fact they are completely false concepts a number of people think it’s a good idea to mislead children with.

Not very factual at all, but 'Mummy Laid an Egg' is a light, silly picture book about how babies are made that my 2 enjoyed. The kids sept the parents straight at the end!
It prompted some questions which might lead nicely to the factual books x
Also 'Look Inside your Body' by Usbourne is a fab general body book with lift the flaps. We read that one to death.

Thank you, I remember her now..I will get the book.

Lord Robert Winston does a book. it's good. Called Help your kids with growing up. No gender woo

@2mummies1baby thanks so much!

Milli Hill is incredibly anti gender woo to great personal cost. She has been slandered and cancelled by those in her profession (birthing - she was the founder of the positive birth movement and also wrote give birth like a feminist which is fab). My period is a great book which my dd found really helpful.

Secondhand ones from around 2010 on eBay.

@WellExactly2 I've just googled it and it seems to have been published in the UK under the name "Let's Talk"- it has the same cover.

https://www.wob.com/en-gb/books/harris-robie-h/let-s-talk-about-girls-boys-babies-bodie/9780744540857?gad_source=1&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIs4m6ufjrhQMVkIZQBh1b9w2UEAQYBSABEgLocvD_BwE#GOR001975254

I literally just found a book like this in a charity shop yesterday! It's American, annoyingly, so some of the spellings are a bit dodge, but I doubt your 5 year old will care!

It's called 'It's NOT the Stork!' and it's aimed at age 4+. Haven't fully read it, but I've flicked through and it looks great.

I can't remember, was Milli Hill anti gender woo? The book looks great and would like to buy it for DD.

I hate that we need to check that books meant to be teaching girls about their bodies aren't teaching them that some girls can have penises.

We had some great Robert Winston ones, very clear and covered physical and emotional changes. I think they were published by DK I’ll see if I can dig them out. Also the Usborne books as above.

For DDs https://www.millihill.co.uk/books/my-period/

Well yes indeed, it's not 'hateful' to know that sex is immutable and it matters. Indeed it's rather poor form on MN for a poster to suggest that a legally protected belief in the importance of a piece of biological fact and common sense is in any way 'hateful'.

I respect your right to profess your faith, which I don't think is hateful, I just don't happen to share your beliefs. Those of us who believe that sex is real generally want to make sure our kids are taught biological facts, and not the "facts" that genderism believes.

I'm still trying to parse that one, let alone make sense of it.

(not you, the pp)

@WellExactly2 I got How Did I Begin for DS around that age and it's really good.

How Did I Begin? amzn.eu/d/c09ybU5

I bought "Growing Up" from eBay for this exact reason!

I had it as a kid and remembered it as being pretty good. Obviously being from the 90s there is no gender woo. Some of the info on sanitary products is a bit of of date - nothing on mooncups or period pants - but I have already chatted with DD about this a few times and she sees me deal with period pants and cups so not an issue for us.

I completely LOVE the style of the illustrations and as the 90s are back in fashion she thinks it looks retro cool rather than old fashioned.

What "hateful mindset" would that be then?