Resource Information.
We have included some resources available that cover various aspects of development to suit your family needs. They discuss issues related to communication, choices, and how to talk to teens and parents.
Disclaimer: The Idaho Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Program provides this list as a resource only; this is not an endorsement. The Program cannot be held responsible for any information in the books or videos listed. Because of the diversity within these resources, we recommend that you review the materials prior to sharing them with your kids.
Books
Keep Talking: A Mother Daughter Guide to Pre-Teen Years
by Lynda Madison Pd.D.
It's Perfectly Normal – Growing Up, Changing Bodies, Sex & Sexual Health
by Robie Harris
Confident Kids - I Always, Always Have Choices
by J. Hall
What's Happening to My Body? A Book For Girls
by Lynda Madaras
What's Happening to My Body? A Book for Boys
by Lynda Madaras
My Self For Girls
by Lynda & Area Madaras
How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk
by Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish
How to Talk So Kids Can Learn: At Home & In School
by Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish
Between Parents and Child: For Parents to Communicate With Their Children
by Dr. Haim and G. Ginott
Happiness Through Choice
by Robin R. Reed
Making a Love That Lasts
by Jacob Aranza
Teen Tips: A Practical Guide For Parents with Kids 11-19
by Tom McMahon
258 Great Dates While You Wait
by Greg Johnson
Red Light, Green Light Preventing Teen Pregnancy
by Janet Ollila Colberg
Caution: Do Not Open Until Puberty!
by Rick Enright
Sex, Lies, and the Truth
by Focus on the Family
Sex Stuff for Kids 7-17
by Carol Marsh
Sexual Development of Young Children
by Virginia Lively & Edwin Lively
Risky Times: How to Be AIDS – Smart and Stay Health
by Jeanne Blake
Sex Education Dictionary for Today’s Teens and Pre-Teens
by Dean Hoch & Nancy Hoch
Bellybuttons are Navels
by Mark Schoen
Where Do Babies Come From?
by Susan Meredith & Susan Mayes
How Sex Works
by Elizabeth Fenwick & Richard Walker
Period
by JoAnn Gardner-Louian, Bonnie Lopez & Maria Quackenbush
Now What Do I Do?
by Robert Selverstone, Ph.D.
What’s Going on Down There: Answers to Questions Boys Find Hard to Ask
by Karen Gravelle
Talk About Sex: A Booklet for Young People
by Patti Britton & Carolyn Patierno
Sex Ed. Growing Up, Relationships and Sex
by Dr. Miriam Stoppard
Smart Sex
by Jessica Vitkus and Marjorie Ingall
Girl Stuff. A Survival Guide to Growing Up.
by Margaret Blackstone and Elissa Harden
It’s Perfectly Normal
by Robie Harris
I Kissed Dating Goodbye
by Joshua Harris
When Sex is the Subject; Attitudes and Answers for Young People
by Pamela Wilson
The “Go Ask Alice” Book of Answers.
A guide to good physical, sexual and emotional health by Columbia University’s Health Education Program.
Henry Hold and Co, Inc. 1998
Asking About Sex and Growing Up
by Joanna Cole
Five Hundred Questions Kids Ask About Sex (and Some of the Answers)
by Frances Younger
How You Were Born
by Joanna Cole
Changing Bodies, Changing Lives 3rd Edition
by Ruth Bell
Videos
Teen-Parent Communication
Power of Choice: Communicating With Your Parents
Just For Me: My Choice
I Don’t Know What To Do: Decision Making Skills
Yes? No? Maybe?
I’m Not Everybody!
Abstinence, it’s the right choice
Know How: Abstinence – encourages teens to postpone sexual involvement.
Real People: Teens Who Choose Abstinence