Total Health series by Susan Boe

[Julie in MO]

For those of you who have used this series, I was hoping you could give me some insight. I've looked at the table of contents for the middle school and the high school books and they look very similar. I have upcoming 9th and 7th graders. We try to do as much together as we can and it looks to me like I could stretch my 7th grader and have her join us in the high school edition. If you have used this book, what do you think? Are there topics in the middle school book that I'd regret "missing?" Thanks for your thoughts!
Blessings,
Julie in MO

[Julieofsardis]

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[Gamom3]

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[TechWife]

Before this school year I compared the two books for my 7th grade ds. I don't remember specifics about the high school book. I decided to go with the middle school book - Talking About Life's Changes because that is what he is going through - a lot of changes. Friendships are changing, interests are changing, demands of school are changing, body is changing, etc. I thought we would miss out on a lot of conversation opportunities if we didn't do this book. The book talks about spiritual, mental and physical health and spends an equal time on each, maybe weighted a bit more toward spiritual, but not much. The only thing I can say is that the book is the right one for where my ds is at this time. Is there anyway you can look at them and compare them - more than the table of contents? I didn't get a good feel for them until I actually read through significant portions of both of them. I also found the student workbook to be a great resource - it is far more than a fill in the blank type workbook and asks the students to think through the implications of the choices that they are presented with.

[Julie in MO]

Hi,
Thanks publically Atozmom for PMing me about my question. Here is her response for the others who posted:
Chapter 5 there is a section on STD's. It is about 8 pages long. Here are the subtitles to this section. Chlamydia, Gonorrhea, Syphilis, Herpes Simplex II, Fighting STD's, What are the consequences, AIDS, History of Aids, What the virus does to the body, How do you get AIDS, Prevention. Of course under the prevention section it says the only safe sex is not sex.

Chapter 11 has 2 1/2 pages that briefly talk about rape.

Chapter 13 discusses sex, abstinence, and abortion. It is about a 10 page section. The next section after that is about tobacco, drugs and alcohol. 11 pages. It mostly talks about the harmful effects they have on your body.

Chapter 14 discusses dating, marriage and parenting. Sex is again discussed in the marriage section.

All of the topics above are discussed in a very tasteful way, always keeping God and His Word as the basis of all decisions. Considering there are 16 chapters in this book, a very small portion deals with the heavier issues. Again, even then they are done well.

I really like this book. I think it is one of the best health texts available for Christians. Hope this helps some.

HTH!
Julie

[CynthiaOK]

Thanks for the review. I've been looking at using it next year with my two younger boys (9th and 10th).

[atozmom]

Thanks Julie. :) I meant to go back and post about this after I pm'd you and forgot. Thanks for doing it for me.