Children also need help understanding sexual development of their own body. Somewhere between 6 and 12 years today. The first physical signs of puberty begin. A sense of privacy about the changes tends to develop as well, but the bodily changes can be disturbing even frightening. If a child has not been prepared for such events. In fact these changes can still be hard to deal with when children do understand what's happening to them and why.At the age of 10 my friends at school told me girls bleed and I was horrified. I remember hearing them arguing about whether blood comes out of the back or the front. When I was finally told about menstruation, my father who is a vet related it to a cat.
Children are extremely eager to learn about their sexuality developing bodies, if denied proper information, they usually turn to extremely untrustworthy sources of information.......other children.
We thought babies came out of the mother's belly button. I spend a lot of time trying to imagine how that will be possible a big baby from such tiny hole. Actually I wasn't too far wrong on that one.
Someone told me to get pregnant from French kissing.
My girlfriend told me that if you get a cold when you got your period, you got one every single month thereafter. I was terrified, once a month is an awful lot of sneezing.
Without proper information young people make all kinds of incorrect assumptions about what is going on in their bodies and end up being far more tortured then they need to be.
Dr Pamela Stepehson Connolly
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