Girltalk Fourth Edition: All the Stuff Your Sister Never Told You - Softcover

Weston, Carol

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ISBN 10: 0060585757 ISBN 13: 9780060585754

Verlag: Harper Perennial, 2004

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From bra shopping to babysitting, from making close friends to making great grades, Girltalk has all the answers

Upbeat and up-to-date, honest and hip, Girltalk is an "indispensable guide" (Working Mother) for girls ages eleven to eighteen. This Fourth Edition is the ultimate preteen and teen source for advice on:

• Body: looking and feeling your best
  
• Friendship: you don't like everybody - why should everybody like you?
  
• Love: falling in, falling out
  
• Sex: what you should know before saying yes
  
• Family: making the best of your nest
  
• Education: getting through school, getting into college
  
• Money: making it, saving it, spending it
  
• Smoking, Drinking, and Drugs: advice without lectures
  
• Quizzes: getting to know yourself
  

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Carol Weston is a writer and speaker. She is the author of For Girls Only, Private and Personal, and Girltalk (Fourth Edition) as well as four Melanie Martin novels for younger readers. She's also the "Dear Carol" advice columnist of Girls' Life. Parenting says "Carol Weston gets girls" and Newsweek calls her a "Teen Dear Abby." Of For Girls Only, USA Today wrote, "There are so many dumb advice books that it's a pleasure to find one that really works." Carol has been a guest on Today, Oprah, The View, and other shows and has spoken at many schools both as an author of novels for elementary school kids as well as an advice giver for middle and high school kids. A Phi Beta Kappa Yale graduate with an M.A. in Spanish, she can give a talk at your school in English or Spanish. She now lives in Manhattan with her husband, daughters, and feisty cat Mike.

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From bra shopping to babysitting, from making close friends to making great grades, Girltalk has all the answers

Upbeat and up-to-date, honest and hip, Girltalk is an "indispensable guide" (Working Mother) for girls ages eleven to eighteen. This Fourth Edition is the ultimate preteen and teen source for advice on:

• Body: looking and feeling your best
  
• Friendship: you don't like everybody -- why should everybody like you?
  
• Love: falling in, falling out
  
• Sex: what you should know before saying yes
  
• Family: making the best of your nest
  
• Education: getting through school, getting into college
  
• Money: making it, saving it, spending it
  
• Smoking, Drinking, and Drugs: advice without lectures
  
• Quizzes: getting to know yourself
  

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Girltalk Fourth Edition

All the Stuff Your Sister Never Told YouBy Weston, Carol

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ISBN: 0060585757

Chapter One

Looking and Feeling Your Best

Too fat, too flat, too tall, too small -- are you 100 percent happywith your appearance? Hardly anyone is. It?s especially hard now.Your body may be growing in all directions, blemishes may freckleyour face, hair may be sprouting here and there, your period maybe a mystery. What is going on inside you anyway? Are you stuckwith your features and figure?

Looks make a difference in first impressions. But so do friendliness,intelligence, thoughtfulness, and a sense of humor. Andwith a little effort, anybody can look attractive.

Since you and your body are together for the long haul, youneed to learn to take care of it. This chapter is about how to beyour most healthy and radiant.

Do Guys Worry About Their Bodies?

Before we launch into a discourse about breasts and periods, youmight be wondering if guys ever worry about their bodies. Answer:They do.

Sure, a few wink in the mirror each morning and think they?reGod?s Gift to Manhood?and Womankind. But most wrestle withpuberty-related anxiety.

Guys wonder whether they?re tall enough, whether their pecsand biceps bulge enough, whether their chest, facial, and pubichair will ever grow. They wish their voices would get deeper andstop croaking. They?re tired of having braces and pimples and feelingclumsy and gangly and hungry all the time. They wish theywere more handsome and that their hands wouldn?t sweat whenthey ask you to slow dance.

Guys worry extra in gym showers, locker rooms, and bathroomsbecause they figure someone might be checking out theirprivate parts. And someone probably is! Guys don?t just worryabout size; some even worry that their organ is crooked!

Here?s another male concern: wet dreams. Guys your agesometimes wake up to find they?ve ejaculated during the night,and they wonder if that?s normal. Yes. It?s also normal for guys toget erections at odd times?in the morning, in math class, or evenwhen taking a foul shot in basketball.

Many guys feel uneasy about their sexuality. Are they oversexedif they masturbate a lot, undersexed if they don?t? If they have anorgasm quickly when they masturbate, does that mean they?ll bepremature ejaculators in years to come? If they haven?t started dating,or if they?ve played sex games with other guys or admire theirmale coach, does that mean they?re gay? If they have an X-ratedfantasy involving a married woman teacher, does that mean they?retwisted? No, no, no, and no. Guys grow at different sexual speedsand need not be worried by early imaginings or experiences.

In one important way, girls have an advantage over guys in theWorry Department. Most guys don?t discuss their growing pains,whereas, luckily for us, most girls do. It?s not uncommon for a girlto complain, ?I wish my breasts were bigger.? But find me a guywho would say, ?I wish my penis were bigger.? It?s a shame guysaren?t more open and honest together. They have as many questions,troubles, and fears as girls, but fewer outlets. Guys tease andtaunt each other, yet tend to fret alone. They don?t even have manymagazines or books to consult. But you do. So keep reading!

Everything You Ever Wanted to KnowAbout Breasts

Back to us girls.

If you?re like me, you sometimes get fed up with your figure.Why can?t your breasts be medium instead of mountains or molehills?

It?s frustrating that your body?s timetable answers to hormonesand heredity, rather than to your own wishful thinking. If youhaven?t started developing yet, you may be feeling shortchanged. Ifyou?ve been developing for years, you may worry you?ll wind upwith watermelons. Either way, you might envy the average girls whostrut around the locker room parading their bra-and-panty sets.

I envied them. I was in a mad rush to grow up. I couldn?t waitto get my breasts on and my braces off, to start getting periods andstop getting pimples. At 14, I was a restless late-blooming flatso. Idressed behind curtains and cringed at breast jokes.

Why are you a sailor?s delight? Because you have a sunkenchest! What do members of the Itty Bitty Titty Committee wearinstead of bras? Band-Aids! Pretend you?re a boy for a minute.Ahh . . . doesn?t that take a load off your chest? Poor Rebecca, girlssaid, was so flat she could wear her bra inside out. And peopleteased Sophie that she?d knock down passersby if she turned without warning.

At first hardly anybody was happy. My friend Ali was as distressedabout being busty as I was about being flat. She sportedbaggy shirts to hide her dramatic décolletage.

It was Ali who told me of the Best Breast Test. ?To find out ifyou need a bra, place a pencil underneath one of your boobs andsee if it stays up,? she explained. I ducked into the bathroom . . .and my pencil clattered to the floor. Ali handed me two of heroutgrown bras anyway??booby? prizes, since she?d graduated tolarger sizes. I still couldn?t imagine putting them on, however. Astringbean classmate had worn a bra to a party the previous weekendand a boy had jeered, ?Would you wear shoes if you didn?thave feet??

Status was at stake when we discussed bra sizes. The idealseemed to be As in school and Bs in bust. I earned no grade: justan incomplete. Later when the subject switched to boys, books,baby-sitting...

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Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Harper Perennial
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0060585757
• ISBN 13: 9780060585754
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 4
• Anzahl der Seiten: 448
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