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Coping with puberty can be challenging for both boys and girls. So, parental support and advice is necessary. Here's how you can guide your child through the various stages of this vulnerable time.

This is a topic we all fail to speak about with our kids. Atleast in my case, I had no knowledge about this crucial stage in everyone's life during my early teen years and when I got my periods for the first time, I was so scared and burst into tears. If only I had known about this earlier and waited for it to arrive, it could have been a much more enjoyable day! I decided then that I would be open to my kids about adolescence, what they can expect and what they will experience. My kids are 7 and 15 and they both know about puberty from the age of 6 and my elder one has infact even taught her little sister about it.

Puberty is complete natural process that everybody goes through. I have two daughters aged 8 and 11 years. Talking about puberty ...I remember my childhood days.. when I was in 2nd standard I had curiosity when Ad. of whisper comes on national TV. I used to ask " Why is blue ink dropped on pad". My mother and others used to keep their mouth shut. I came to know about it through books....and more about when I reached higher primary through our classmstes who already had got their periods. Now my daughters have the same curiosity when Advertisement comes on TV. I take them to medical shops to buy pads along with them. My younger daughter asked Me " Are you a baby to buy these diapers" .I smiled little...and said " No my dear...when girls grow up , they have physical and harmonal changes in the body .All grown girls have to use this". I feel it is duty of every mother to explain about menstruation before girls get their periods in more positive way.

physical changes are natural in teenage. We all go through this phase in our lives. So being a parent we are matured enough to understand what a child goes through this period and needs a emotional support all the time. My daughter is 17 years old and in his teens. I took care of her emotional needs as she feels like crying over petty things, gets angry so easily. But I keep calm and ask if there is any issue at all. I assure her that we are with her in any situation. I took her out for a movie or shopping during her periods which relaxes her mind. most important your kids should know that what ever happens in life my parents loves me the most and the safest place for her.

Every child goes through the gawky period when he or she undergoes various physical changes . These can make the child sensitive, emotional, irritated or self conscious .
I have a son . By God's grace I didn't have to face much challenges during his adolescent period . Sometimes he did become irritated about his facial n body hair n cracking voice . That time it was best to leave him alone in his company of books which were n even now ( he is 27 now)his best friends My parents ,me n my husband always laid emphasize on strong character , respect for everyone , honesty , sincerity and empathy for an all round development .

Changes are natural. We can't control hormonal changes of our child going through physical, biological stages to transform into adulthood. What is under our control is proper discussion with good explanation. Some important lessons which I learnt from my experience is to provide platform for our child to talk or discuss on whatsoever matter without hesitation. They are curious to collect as many information as possible and are able to give the meaning to their surroundings. I was not fortunate to talk on any matters with my parents. I found many answers by my education and experiences. With God's grace, I am fortunate for minute and unique observations. A child has a power to learn by themselves about what's happening with their body, if he/she is unclear they come to parents/friends for guidance, at that time it is the duty of parents to explain precisely and clearly so that child can put a trust in our words. External environment is unsafe as child may learn many unusual and irrelevant things from that surroundings, parents has to take care in their grooming by teaching an important lesson of focus on education and ignore bad people and situations that comes in our way. This helps that child to grow with a different mindset and can easily achieve his purpose in his life.

We need to talk our childs very carefully in different types of stages. 'Puberty' is a very important topic to tell our teen childs. First, on this topic, we need to talk them very carefully with their understanding it means what they r thinking about their different stages of life they going to the initial stage of their life. They can feel some changes wht we realise them and we told them about puberty stage then they will accept some changes carefully.Its our responsibility how we present puberty topic and life strategy to them which can understand with their excellent know. We understand and responsible for this how we can understand our childs and their understanding as we give them good understanding about all stages in this important stage of life.