The Rough Guide to Girl Stuff

The Rough Guide to Girl Stuff

Kaz Cooke

Language: English

Pages: 532

ISBN: 1848360185

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


The Rough Guide to Girl Stuff is packed with everything a girl needs to know to get her through the teen years. From friends, body changes, clothes school stress, exercise and sex to smoking, embarrassment, dieting, guys, drinking, drugs and heartbreak. Not to mention how to beat bullies and mean girls, earn money, find new friends and get on with your family. Written by award winning author Kaz Cooke, in extensive consultation with medical, psychological and practical experts; The Rough Guide to Girl Stuff provides a wealth of practical tips and non-judgemental advice for teens (and their parents!) Girl Stuff is split in to four key themes: Body, Head, Heart and On the Go and each chapter includes facts, hints, inspiring lists, hundreds of quotes from real girls, and details of websites and books for useful tips if you want to find out more. Designed to be a friend through the teenage years, The Rough Guide to Girl Stuff will be your best friend through every change and challenge.

Girl Stuff is the book I wanted when I was a teenager; a 'best friend' that will honestly answer every question about everything" (Kaz Cooke)

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clean. This 28 BODY change can be hard when you’re stuck on a school bus trip. Bigger, “overnight” pads are good for these times, but it’s best not to wear any kind of pad for longer than four hours during the day. Types of pads Panty pads/liners: these are just to keep your pants fresh and protected from non-period vaginal shenanigans (see the “Clear or white stuff” section earlier) and are definitely not absorbent enough to deal with the period flow. Ultra-thin pads: they are very thin but

brain 130 Looking after your brain 133 139 9 Up, down, all around Moods 140 Feeling embarrassed 141 Feeling angry 143 Feeling anxiety and stress 145 Feeling down 148 Feeling optimistic and strong 151 10 DRUGS 174 Make up your own mind 12 DRINKING 154 Make your own rules Things you need to know about alcohol before drinking 155 Deciding whether or not to drink 162 Being drunk 164 Taking control 171 11 CONFIDENCE 195 In search of the real cool Cigarettes 175 Legal drugs 179 Illegal

range. The Shape chapter helps explain about sizes. You don’t need much sugar Our bodies are designed to love the taste of sugar (it’s even a pain reliever). The human body assumes, from its experiences in the tough old cave folk days, that sugar is hard to get so it craves more. We used to have to make our own cakes from scratch to have something sweet. Now we can get sugar hidden in nearly every packaged and processed kind of food, so most of us eat way more of it than we need. High-sugar

day, six meals a week, breathing in when eating not eating for days and then pigging out (bulimia) GI one – it was working but I couldn’t keep going Blaster Lite, Easy Slim, Slim-Fast, Optislim only fruit diet everything from tablets to starving myself ate vegetables and fruit for three weeks low-calorie low Fat make up my own really: no bread, detox diet, wouldn’t eat anything except dinner also binge eat a lot think a blood-type diet for my eczema, many other diets not sugar, only

risk gets bigger each “next” time. Foreign & Commonwealth Office (www.fco Never go somewhere unknown with a .gov.uk) before you travel. stranger to buy drugs. (Strangers can act Many countries have mandatory (automatic) life sentences or death sentences for using the smallest amount of an illegal drug; having any amount on your body or in your pockets, handbag, rucksack friendly to win your confidence.) Never assume the British or a room where you are or have been; and government selling

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