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Summary: Most excellent!
Review: Children's sexuality is a part of the human experience which in today's world we mostly encounter in negative, semi-paranoid terms. This book, a veritable Playbook in all true senses of the word, is an agent of consciousness, helping to usher in the coming age of a sensuous tenderness, of an understanding of sexual pleasure without guilt, of a joyous sharing of delight without cruelty, bigotry, exploitation, discrimination; it's a "hands-on!" guide to exploration and a companion to pleasure, Humanity's birthright. The children of the world are the ones who will actualize this birthright to a Natural sensuality in their own lives, within their own experiences as children now, and as adults in the near future. The Playbook is an aid, a guide, a friend who will help bring about a world in which it will be unknown, weird - pathological! - to deprive any person of their enjoynment of sexual pleasure, or to exploit another's needs and desires, or worse, to sexually impose one's self on another being. Without mentioning any theory, the Playbook draws on the brilliant and insightful work of Dr. Wilhelm Reich, ("Children of the Future"; "The Sexual Revolution"). Without going into political sloganeering, the Playbook is an embodiment of straightforward Feminist perceptions of power, gender, race and sexuality. Without getting legalistic, or falling into any clinical, pseudo-scientific argumentations, the Playbook takes the victories of the Gay Rights Movement into a whole new sphere: it helps the future adult's sense of reality be formed by assuming right from the start that it's Natural to have a freedom of choice in sexual identity!
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Summary: Much Too Explicit for Young Children
Review: I'm not sure if the previous reviewers are parents of young childen, but I must say there is absolutely no chance that I will show my 8 year old this book. I must agree that this book does present sex in a very liberating way, but these are not the values I want my children to have. I encourage my daughter to ask questions about her body, sex and sexuality, and I have been more than open and honest about the entire subject. This book just goes too far for this age group. For example, I don't think a 6-9 year old needs to know what 'coming' is, or needs to fantasize about who they want to have sex with when they are adults. This book should have been broken up into two parts. The content on exploration, I feel, might be okay for a younger child, but the latter part of the book presents subjects that I didn't even think about until puberty. I am well aware that children are maturing earlier(I know I did), but I think this book is much too explicit for children under 10. I do believe that these issues will eventually surface with my children, but for right now I'm happy explaining from where babies come.
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Summary: Much Too Explicit for Young Children
Review: I'm not sure if the previous reviewers are parents of young childen, but I must say there is absolutely no chance that I will show my 8 year old this book. I must agree that this book does present sex in a very liberating way, but these are not the values I want my children to have. I encourage my daughter to ask questions about her body, sex and sexuality, and I have been more than open and honest about the entire subject. This book just goes too far for this age group. For example, I don't think a 6-9 year old needs to know what 'coming' is, or needs to fantasize about who they want to have sex with when they are adults. This book should have been broken up into two parts. The content on exploration, I feel, might be okay for a younger child, but the latter part of the book presents subjects that I didn't even think about until puberty. I am well aware that children are maturing earlier(I know I did), but I think this book is much too explicit for children under 10. I do believe that these issues will eventually surface with my children, but for right now I'm happy explaining from where babies come.
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Summary: Interactive workbook for kids 5-12. Refreshingly different!
Review: Now _this_ is a sexuality education book for younger children different from any other I have seen. A breath of fresh air! 56 pages, black & white, line illustrations throughout. The book designed for pre-pubescent children who are old enough to read (maybe age 5 to 12). The style of the book is quite like a school workbook, though I don't think that's a turn-off in this case. The text of the book talks directly to the reader, not speaking abstractly. It's a workbook since on almost every page there is space for the reader to draw a picture, write a response on the line provided, or tick the box that best describes what they think or feel. The illustrations invite coloring in. The content of the book specifically does not talk much about how babies are made or born, but rather about other aspects of sexuality, specifically how the reader feels about themself. The reader might want to just read the book, or fill it in and keep it secret, or show someone what they have done. I personally don't like Marcia Quackenbush's illustrations that much, though others disagree. (She also illustrated "Period" in the same style). This is a unique book (as far as I know), and I recommend it as something a bit more interactive than simple information books. I think it'd be interesting to give a copy of the book to a child multiple times as they grow up, documenting their growing maturity about what they think and feel.
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Summary: Interactive workbook for kids 5-12. Refreshingly different!
Review: Now _this_ is a sexuality education book for younger children different from any other I have seen. A breath of fresh air! 56 pages, black & white, line illustrations throughout. The book designed for pre-pubescent children who are old enough to read (maybe age 5 to 12). The style of the book is quite like a school workbook, though I don't think that's a turn-off in this case. The text of the book talks directly to the reader, not speaking abstractly. It's a workbook since on almost every page there is space for the reader to draw a picture, write a response on the line provided, or tick the box that best describes what they think or feel. The illustrations invite coloring in. The content of the book specifically does not talk much about how babies are made or born, but rather about other aspects of sexuality, specifically how the reader feels about themself. The reader might want to just read the book, or fill it in and keep it secret, or show someone what they have done. I personally don't like Marcia Quackenbush's illustrations that much, though others disagree. (She also illustrated "Period" in the same style). This is a unique book (as far as I know), and I recommend it as something a bit more interactive than simple information books. I think it'd be interesting to give a copy of the book to a child multiple times as they grow up, documenting their growing maturity about what they think and feel.
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Summary: Excellent book and unique in it's genre...
Review: This was a very good book for my son. The material was presented in a way that was more *interactive* and he responded very well to that. I didn't find the drawings to be very compelling but perhaps the simplicity and *toned downed* nature of them was a good thing becuase some of the material presented was quite frank. I think there are probably many parents that would find the material too frank especially at the younger end of the age recommendations. I have purchased quite a bit of information for my son on this subject in the hopes that if he was too embarrassed to ask me or someone else he would go to these books. I have found in the past that material that he was not ready for he tended to just pass over. Literally, he would just turn the page on things that seemed beyond him... So in his case I feel comfortable presenting information that might not want to read right than, but know where to find it when he wants to seek it out. This was a very good book for my son at 10 years old. For some parents and children they might want to wait a few more years and I am sure for some, this material would be too frank to ever be considered.
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Summary: Excellent book and unique in it's genre...
Review: This was a very good book for my son. The material was presented in a way that was more *interactive* and he responded very well to that. I didn't find the drawings to be very compelling but perhaps the simplicity and *toned downed* nature of them was a good thing becuase some of the material presented was quite frank. I think there are probably many parents that would find the material too frank especially at the younger end of the age recommendations. I have purchased quite a bit of information for my son on this subject in the hopes that if he was too embarrassed to ask me or someone else he would go to these books. I have found in the past that material that he was not ready for he tended to just pass over. Literally, he would just turn the page on things that seemed beyond him... So in his case I feel comfortable presenting information that might not want to read right than, but know where to find it when he wants to seek it out. This was a very good book for my son at 10 years old. For some parents and children they might want to wait a few more years and I am sure for some, this material would be too frank to ever be considered.
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