Judy Blume. Appropriate?

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So my Y7 DD has come home with a Judy Blume book from the school library. I never read them when I was a teen, but flicking through it, it talks about people getting laid and definitely has sexual themes.

I don't know how I feel about it? She's borrowed it because her also Y7 friend said it was good.

Would you be OK with this? I don't know how to feel about it

Wow that takes me back!

Clearly deemed too racy for Canadians

I read it when I was 13! It was definitely an eye opener.... a very memorable book because of Ralph!

Omg 😮 @MigThePig that's exactly the copy I had

Forever was made into a film which I saw many years ago. I first read Deenie when it was serialised in my sister's Fab 208 comic - I was about 8 so a lot must have gone over my head.

Deenie includes a lot of narrative about masturbation, which is handled in a sensitive and reassuring way - again, I expect young people nowadays are much more savvy than my generation and probably don't need to be told that it's a natural and harmless thing to do, but it was educational back in the early 80s.

I remember Deenie using her flannel in the bath

Forever was very popular in yr 7/8 when I was at school.

I’d have no problems wth my children reading it at that age.

I remember reading Forever in Y6. By Y7 kids at school we’re passing round well thumbed copies of Jackie Collins novels and Lace by Shirley Conran. It got to the stage where the books would quite literally fall open at the sex scenes!

I read it at 12, in the grand scheme of what is available now it's pretty tame tbh.

My mother hit the fucking roof when she found out though

We all bought it on a school trip to Waterstones in Y6

Didn’t she wear a ‘power blue’ sweater because she’d read that boys like that colour on girls best? Remember that still, as well as Ralph obvs!