Hey. Who was it that was asking about budding sexuality in girls?
I forget.
Anyway, I remembered the name of the fab book I found:
Girlsource, put out by Ten Speed Press.
It's like OBOS specifically for the teen set, compiled by teens for teens, very practical, good advice about everything from how to figure out who your real friends are, overall health, body image isues, stress, sex, sexual identity, birth control, pregnancy and all its outcomes, family crisis, issues specific to immigrant girls, etc. etc.etc.
It's amazing.
gonna slap you.
I will check this out for my daughter who thinks she knows everything "cuz we learned it in sex ed". This is also her argument for why she should be allowed to watch movies rated R for sexuality, "we learned it all in sex ed, Mom!"
When did the lemons learn the same creed as the sun?
When did smoke learn how to fly?
--Pablo Neruda
reports quite the opposite. She has had some sort of sex ed for three years in a row now, just a few days each year, and tells me that they sure don't teach much compared to books we have at home. Of course, maybe your schools are really advanced. 
You know how one is supposed to wait for questions from their kids regarding sex and then answer truthfully? Ha. If I did that with my kids, they'd never know a thing. They're exactly as I was as a kid - NOT asking Mom and Dad, no way, no thanks. So my daughter gets these little talks when we're alone and library books tossed onto her bed without comment. My son's younger and I'm trying to leave him in his dad's hands, but we'll see if Handsome ever gets around to it. I've been bugging him about it lately, reminding him that our son is growing fast.
I sat in on a sex ed session and it was about your menses, using deoderant, and "your changing body" type thing. But now DD is in a 7-week "Family Consumer Science" class. They have been learning to cook (yay!) and sex ed (not at the same time ha-ha). She had to bring home a baby (computer-programmed doll that cries) and they have actually learned about sex and birth control. She said they even showed them how to use male and female condoms (hell, I don't even know how to use female condoms), diaphragms, et al. Pretty good class, I am very impressed. The computerized, crying baby doll she had to care for all weekend was a really good lesson. It weighed about as much as a real baby so it was quite cumbersome. DD's eyes got huge when I told her about all that you really have to do to stop a baby from crying...so much more than holding a key in its back. Also, let her know she used to cry for 2.5 hours straight instead of every 2.5 hours for five minutes!
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