SuitabookThe story of me
Stanton L. Jones
- Reading
- Read together and pause for questions about body-part names or birth. You can explain which ideas reflect your family’s beliefs and add any context you want your child to have.
- Themes
- Reproduction as an explanation: The book explains a baby’s growth inside the mother’s body and the birth process. Reproduction is presented as information about how a baby develops, within a religious account of the body as God’s gift.
- Faith, family and gender: The book links God’s love and the goodness of creation with family, and says God wants each baby to have both a mother and a father. It also presents being a boy or a girl as special. The book affirms this religious and family framework rather than presenting it as a neutral set of alternatives.
- Worth knowing
- It discusses pregnancy, birth, sexuality and private body parts, and presents a family model involving both a mother and a father. Consider whether that framing fits your family’s beliefs.