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Essay / PUBERTY - 1006
Reading the vignettes discussed this week brings back so many memories from my childhood. I remember how hard it was for two of my childhood friends and when they found out that I had reached puberty and at the time I was 9 years old, myself and my other two Friends thought they were going to go through puberty too, unfortunately both of them have to. wait all year, nothing has changed. (Q 1) My puberty experience started at the age of 10, which means why should two friends go through puberty when Helen was my best friend, she was 11 and a half, she was still waiting and I remember she was anxious asking me what kind of signs she would get or feel, my other friend Lyse, she didn't care I guess but, Hélène didn't have it in the end and it was me she called after talking to his mother. (Q2) I don't know if my mother had the same experience as me, apparently she never talked about it with me, but she shared with us that when she had her period for the first time, it was at school, after going to the bathroom and she saw something from that. a sign that she already knows it because her grandmother had discussed it with her, that's all she told us. How was it different from mine? At least her grandmother discussed it with her and I, no one did because I kind of grew up with my brothers so they didn't really talk to me about my transition into adolescence . During my reading this week, I actually learned a lot about what teenagers feel when they reach the stage of puberty, where many of them might worry about being fat and worry obsessively about how their body will change. (Pg.: 237 Belsky) Discuss what children experience during puberty, the name for all the internal and external changes associated with physically becoming adults? However...... middle of paper ...... I'm sure I discuss all the details and necessary information with my children, however, I will find a good way to start a conversation with my daughter in order to approach her because girls are funny, especially when they try to talk about sex with them, my niece always acts funny whenever I ask her if she has a boyfriend and if you make sure to have a condom, you won't have kids at 18, maybe after you graduate from college, she'll be like aunt, stop "Lol! (p. 255) The author explains that perhaps the first step in beginning to intervene with young people prone to eating disorders is to examine how adolescents who are accepting and accepting of their bodies reason and think. As one interview study suggests, these young people don't deny their imperfections, but they ignore negative comments and focus on their physical assets. (Belski,2013)