Grow Up and Love Your Body!: The Complete Girls’ Guide to Growing Up Age 8-12 incl. Body-Care and Self-Esteem Special

I was asked to read this book when my youngest sibling found out he was having a girl. I went through all the things in this book but you know how first time parents can be! He wanted to know if it was accurate to what girls actually go through during those ages. I read it and found it pretty informative. The author uses easy to understand concepts and I love that self live is the focus of this book. The author includes cute pictures and I wish there were more of them in it. One of the coping mechanism that's recommended in this book was actually something my therapist had told me to use so I feel like the author really gets it. Overall, I found the book to be helpful and encouraging for girls reaching the most awkward stage of life.

Excellent read! Great outline for preteens and parents listing ideas of how to discuss puberty and it’s many changes with their daughters. This book covers the change in hormones, emotions, body makeup and mindsets. This opens the door to an array of family conversations. It also helps our Beloved daughters to understand the science of how and why their body matures. Excellent outline and conversation starter😊

Black and white. Very basic but its perfect for the age range and for the girls still at beginners lvl of reading. Good book to read aloud. I would actually prefer to an involved parent when it comes to teaching/learning about a young girls body than letting someone else influence her.

This book came in handy before my daughter hit puberty. She had so many questions about menstruation

This book was very helpful for both me and my daughter. I read it first so I could preview the information and have a better understanding of what changes are happening to her and how she might feel about them or be responding to them. Definitely some of the topics she is not interested in talking with me about( and to be honest i feel a bit awkward about it too) and she doesn't have many good older female role models to ask ( her grandmother is little old fashioned.) This book i think helped her realize that it's okay to feel teh way she does and give her a better idea of what to expect in the days to come. I did end up talking with her about puberty and having the book to talk about instead of just a conversation with her body as the topic made it a lot easier. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone else in this situation.

My granddaughter loves this book! I gifted it to her so she could look up any subject matter pertaining to being a girl and going through hormonal changes in private…..she’s read the book more than once in the little amount of time she has had it. It’s written perfectly for 8 to 12 year olds and includes topics like bullying and friendships. The information is presented in an easy way to understand and with matter of fact details taking all the embarrassment out of learning such a typically awkward subject.

I decided to read the book before I introduced it to my 10 year old. Not all parents have the same teaching methods or the same material that we are introducing to our children and the book being classified as 8-12 gave me a feeling of trust but I had to make sure anyways. The book speaks about body changes and immediately moves into “sexually active”. They lost me. Im speaking to my child about her body changing and if I didn't read the book now before she understand that I have to speak to her about sex?!. If your child understands sex and changes in their bodies, then this book is good to give additional information and body confidence.

This book is pretty big- maybe 8 by 10 inches which I found surprising. I like the large font and easy words. I offered my 9 year old to read it on her own or for us to read it together. She wanted me to read it to her. Takes us less than 5 minutes to get through a chapter so it’s easy to add to our day. There are a few typos but overall it’s a good introduction to puberty

We are using this to help answer questions that our eight-year-old daughter has Help explain things anyways that she can understand without scaring her

This book is truly awful! It is poorly written, full of grammatical errors and typos. Not suitable for the age group it claims to be intended for. It offers superficial, boilerplate “advice”, which in no way constitutes meaningful content for children going through these significant developmental stages.

Good a discussion of males is included in the book; at this point in a young girl's development, she begins to see guys in a more complex light, as a potential romantic partner rather than just another playmate or classmate as she did in earlier years. The book explains that it is all due to hormones, how it works, how it affects you, and most importantly, how to process and cope with it. This is vital information to have since a girl's first crush may be considered as a type of milestone in her life. The advice in this book may be extremely beneficial to any young girl going through the time in her life that is perhaps the most transformative she could encounter at any point in her life. The book touches on a wide variety of other issues as well. In a world in which self-image is a topic of discussion on a daily and active basis, the opportunity of bringing this topic up in a,safe and loving inviroment is a most, went thorough the pages progressively before I show it to my prepubescent loved one and discovered that it was rather nice. The structure, the language, and the attention that has been placed into the page persuade me that this is the perfect one to take in those topics and offer perspective to my children who do not really enjoy to exercise or grasp the terms and banal acertion.

Poorly written

It’s not often we see a book that caters to woman and body care, i’m going for nuts and bolts to build this self-esteem, in particularly because of the society we live in today and the norms and values that hinder a younger self esteem because of expectations society places upon being a woman. So books like this is life changing for girls as it makes the transition from becoming a go to a woman much more easier and much more relatable. I can’t speak for most women but I myself had a particularly hard time transitioning between the ages eight and 12, because of this I do not want my younger siblings to experience the same hardship or even so my future children, hence why I bought this book. My younger sister is not particularly a reader so I bought this book giving her daily lessons on body care and growing your self-esteem and maintaining that self-esteem even when tackling the expectations of social media. This book has good tips and tricks to her to hand with that, for instance I particularly found the family & conflict and The good hygiene chapter very beneficial for not only my younger sister but for myself also. I love how this book is filled with encouragement and motivation for young ladies to be a better version of themselves and a version of them which is confident, aspiring and ambitious. That age between eight and 12 is a particularly hard time for young girls so this book definitely makes the transition much more easier and much more natural. Furthermore, I love how Sarah Weston implemented images to the book so girls Will remain engaged with the book. My younger sister particularly loves this book and has told a teacher about this book. I honestly think not only this book will change the lives for younger women but also for all the women who are still trying to figure themselves out. This book is a 10 out of 10, I will definitely recommend to your family and friends.