Posts Tagged ‘puberty’
Good hygiene is important for teenage health and confidence
When your child was younger, you taught your child the basics of good hygiene, washing hands, covering their mouth when they cough and having regular baths or showers. Adolescence is a time to build on these basics. It is a time when your child’s changing body means that personal hygiene will need to change too.…
Read MorePhysical and Emotional changes for Girls and Boys around Puberty
Puberty is the time when all your major organs and body systems mature. At the end of puberty, you are sexually and reproductively mature. The growth and development that occurs during puberty is prompted by changes in the levels of certain hormones in your body. Hormonal changes begin in the mid-primary school years, but puberty…
Read MoreHow to Deal With Puberty?
The time when a young person’s sexual and reproductive organs mature is puberty. The body starts to make hormones that trigger growth and sexual development, before any physical changes happen. Puberty starts at around 10 years for girls and 12 years for boys, take or give a year or so. Physical changes can be seen…
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