Precocious puberty

having flawless hair, flawless bodies, flawless teeth and flawless skin, but they are never able to truly escape their flaws. Imperfection is inevitable, but many people are not content in accepting that reality, especially adolescents struggling with puberty and acne. In a nation that is entirely consumed by the obsession of perfection, the Epiduo advertisement blatantly targets the perfection obsessed teens by recognizing imperfections and offering a solution to make those flaws disappear.…

Some of the effects that early physical development can have upon the mental and emotional state of a young girl are: - Moodiness - Embarrassment - Depression, - Self-consciousness - Negative body image - Higher chance of developing an eating disorder - More likely to get involved with drugs - Higher rates of suicide As a teacher you need to be aware of what your students are going through in order to provide them with a comfortable and safe learning environment. Girls that show signs of…

How much pressure on a child is too much? Parents may want to see their kid succeed, but there comes a point when enough is enough. Parents are supposed to help relieve the stress of their kids, but in fact, 68% of teens say their stress is caused by their parents (TeenHelp 2016). When discussing the topic of pressure on teens and children by parents, Laura Katen states in her article, “Teenage Overload: Are Teens Being Pushed Too Hard”, a story that was shared with her by a witness of parental…

in Catcher in the Rye. Many teenagers have experienced them as well. Their experiences change their perception of the world, their insecurity can often give them the feeling they can not reach out to others, and their hormones as they go through puberty can give them the desire to engage in sexual activity. However, those three are not the only aspects of being one. There are many, many more aspects to being a typical teenager, and Holden has probably experienced a lot more than only three of…

Stakeholders that will be directly impacted by my solution:  Adolescent Teenagers (Male/Female)  Potential child  The Government External stakeholders that will be impacted by my solution:  Parents of adolescent teenagers  Hospitals  Orphanages  Educational departments / Teachers Reasons why this solution will directly impact Adolescent teenagers: Harms: • If this solution isn’t proposed then adolescent teenagers will continue to take many risks and as a result directly impacting…

Oily skin: how I dealt with it Oily skin: the one thing in life that seemed impossible to get rid of when I was a young teenage boy entering the awkward stages of puberty. And it didn’t help that I fitted the ‘oily skin’ criteria: Asian? Check. Lives on the equator? Check. Going through puberty? Check. Screwed? Check. It plagued my life no matter what I was doing. Whenever I woke up, my face was drenched in oil and if you managed to touch it you would notice how briskly your fingers slid off…

ADOLESCENCE According to WHO, adolescence is one of the stages of life which occurs between the ages of ten and nineteen and it is characterized by all round rapid growth. It is the transition from childhood to adulthood. Fayal, a developmental psychologist (1998), said that human development occurs in stages and each stage has its distinct characteristic. According to Erik Erikson, (1902-1994), psychoanalyst and a neo–Freudian, adolescence is the period during which an individual tends to…

Adolescence is a transitional period linking childhood and adulthood of a person. The word “adolescence” means a period of growth to maturity” (Collin, 2007). It begins at puberty and extends to the late teens or early twenties when the person is largely able to manage his or her own life. This is a time of physical, sexual, emotional, intellectual and social changes that occurs when the young person moves away from dependence on parents and protective confines of the family and towards relative…

Life Span Reflection: Menopause Physical development changes drastically throughout your lifetime. Examples of physical development that individuals may/will experience are puberty, obesity, improving motor skills, and many others. The topic I am going to discuss is menopause, which occurs only in women in late adulthood. To summaries, menopause is the period within a woman’s life where the ability to produce offspring’s ends and the ceasing of menstruation occurs; menopause occurs in woman…

Bodybuilding Natural Vs Steroids With bodybuilding, as popular and as mainstream as it has now become, unfortunately there is a certain stigma attached to it that simply will not go away, and that stigma in question is the use of anabolic steroids, hormones, and various other illegal, and potentially harmful compounds. As dedicated to bodybuilding as an individual may be, most members of the general public will take one look at a muscular guy and immediately brand him as being a steroid user.…