Topics: online safety.

Non-fiction

The internet has changed parenting forever. Carr-Gregg provides an essential guide to the online world of today's real wired children, from toddlers to teenagers.

Age: Parents and teacher.

Carr-Gregg, Michael. Real wired child: What parents need to know about kids online. Victoria: Penguin Books, 2007.
ISBN: 9780143004653

Animated videos on sexual health topics produced by Queensland Health.

Queensland Health has produced a number of animated videos on the following topics:

Sexually transmissible infections and blood-borne viruses

• Chlamydia - Female
• Chlamydia - Male
• Gonorrhoea - Female
• Gonorrhoea - Male
• Herpes
• HIV
• Blood to blood transmission
• Syphilis - Female
• Syphilis - Male

Sexual and reproductive health

A practical guide for teenage girls on understanding the physical and emotional changes associated with puberty.

Movsessian, Shushann. Puberty Girl. Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 2004.
ISBN: 9781741141047

Puberty Boy explains the transitions that boys need to go through to become healthy young men in a unique, colourful and commonsense way.

Price, Geoff. Puberty Boy. Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 2005.
ISBN: 9781741145632

A WA Department of Health booklet addressing the changes that happen during puberty and how to look after yourself during this time.

Updated in 2021 to combine the 'Girls and puberty' and 'Boys and puberty'. Aimed at ages 10-13 years.

For Western Australian schools and organisations:

Free bulk orders can be made via www.dohquickmail.com.au. Please register with an organisational email (gmail and hotmail are not accepted through this automated system). Delivery is only available to WA addresses.

A simple yet sensitively written picture book that covers changes in bodies and appearance during puberty, good hygiene and other issues including protective behaviours and feelings for young women with special needs.

Stewart, Rose Heather Anderson. and Fay Angelo. Puberty and special girls. Australia: Secret Girls' Business, 2010.
ISBN: 9780975011355

Between 2014- 2016, Curtin University conducted a comprehensive educational program for both practising teachers and pre-service undergraduate student teachers to equip them to deliver RSEin schools. This infographic provides a project overview, highlighting key achievements of the project over the three year period. In December 2016 Curtin were successful in being awarded the Tender to continue provision of this program through to 2019.

Providing perspectives and language to account for every student's unique journey through puberty to adulthood.

Created to address the vast gender diversity of young people attending American schools. Designed to provide educators with perspectives and language to account for every student's unique journey through puberty into adulthood. Created in collaboration with Gender Spectrum, Advocates for Youth, Answer, GLSEN, Human Rights Campaign, Planned Parenthood, SIECUS.

Commissioner for Children and Young People's profile of children and young people in WA.

Key findings around sexualisation, gender, sexuality and body image drawn from international research and over a decade of international research. UK, 2017 Answers the questions: 1. Are groups of young people particularly prone to poor body image? (racism, white privilege, heterosexual matrix, girls, boys, trans youth) 2. Has the growing use of social media and communications platforms encouraged poor body image? 3. What is the link between sexting and body dissatisfaction? 4. Can the internet and social media be used as a tool to promote positive self-image?