Mixed with all the usual stuff are facts about how genes work and the ups and downs of early bloomers versus late ones.
“We are really good at talking to girls about puberty and body changes and social changes and emotional changes, but we are really bad as a society in talking to boys about it.”
Our social conversation about puberty has been largely directed at girls,” Natterson said in a recent interview. “Boys have very little information in the print world. She takes a head-to-toe approach to puberty and adolescence after years of requests from parents for a book boys can claim as their own. Cara Natterson, the pediatrician and Los Angeles mom who has connected with millions of young girls through her bestselling “Care & Keeping of You” books has now written one specifically for boys.
