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Q How are children developing?Q What do they need from their parents?
- They are learning about human life cycles at school and about friendships, feelings, helping friends and classmates and other people that can help them e.g. school nurse.
- Some girls will start to go through puberty at age 8/9, not necessarily start their periods but start the hormonal changes, growing breast buds and experiencing mood swings.
- To be able to explain where living things come from
- To talk about different kinds of families
- To help them have names for and ways to express different feelings
- That boys and girls are different but can do lots of the same things
- To answer questions about things they've seen or heard in the world around them
- To explain human lifecycles to them - how babies are made and grow
- If you think your child is about to start puberty, or their friends are - to explain the physical and emotional changes at puberty. Free booklets about puberty
Books you can borrow about puberty
