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Follow the links below to find information on puberty and the changes associated with it.
The list includes information for parents and carers, as well as information for people going through puberty. You can find a range of information on puberty at:
Reviewed January 2009
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Breasts
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Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
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Breasts are two mounds of flesh which grow on the chest of girls as they reach puberty.
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Sep 2009
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Child development: 12-15 years
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Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
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The early adolescent years are a time of rapid change physically, socially and emotionally. In all areas of life it is the beginning of your child's transition from childhood to adulthood and probably a bit of wandering in nobody's-land on the way.
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Sep 2009
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Puberty - what it feels like
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Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
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Although puberty refers to the physical changes when the body becomes sexually mature and ready to reproduce (have babies), there are also a lot of emotional changes at this time.
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Aug 2009
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Sexuality
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Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
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Sexuality is a combination of people's sex, their sexual feelings for others, their feelings about themselves as sexual beings, their ............
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Jul 2009
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Gynecomastia (male breasts)
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Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
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As if puberty is not hard enough on guys. Your voice breaks, you grow facial hair and then it seems as though you might be growing breasts. Gynecomastia is the medical term for breast tissue growing on a male.
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Jul 2009
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Acne
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Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
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Acne means those pimples and lumps under the skin that many young people get when hormones start getting active in their teens. Acne can involve mild to severe outbreaks of pimples and cysts on the face and sometimes on the back, shoulders and chest.
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Jul 2009
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Men's stuff
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Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
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Whatever you may have called them when you were a little kid in your family or among your mates, your 'privates' have got other names used by doctors and other health professionals.
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Jul 2009
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Sexual feelings
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Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
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The sex hormones your body is producing may cause you to have sexual feelings. Sometimes they make you feel sexy.
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Jun 2009
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Secret boys business!
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Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
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Whatever you may have called them when you were a little kid, in your family or among your mates, your 'privates' have got other names used by doctors and other medical professionals.
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Jun 2009
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Zits (acne)
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Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
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Sometimes life seems to be really unfair. Just when you start to worry a lot about how you look you get 'zits'!
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Jun 2009
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Puberty - changes in thinking
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Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
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Suddenly your body is telling you that you are changing into an adult and your mind starts to do some changing too.
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Jun 2009
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Who says you're overweight?
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Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
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When you are a nearly teen, there are all sorts of things happening in your life. Some young people put on weight, then suddenly have a growth spurt and go skinny.
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Jun 2009
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What is puberty?
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Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
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Apart from the first year of your lives, the most growing that you do happens during puberty.
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Jun 2009
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Personal hygiene - taking care of your body
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Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
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Keeping your body clean is an important part of keeping you healthy and helping you to feel good about yourself. Caring about the way you look is important to your self esteem...
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May 2009
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Problems with puberty in girls
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The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners
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Puberty is the time when a child goes through the physical changes involved in becoming an adult. The average age for a girl to start puberty is 11 1/2 years although any age between 8 and 14 years is considered normal.
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Mar 2009
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Problems with puberty in boys
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The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners
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| Description: |
The time when a child goes through the physical changes involved in becoming an adult is known as puberty. On average most boys start puberty at 12 years of age however any age between 9 and 15 years is considered normal.
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Mar 2009
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Sweating and body odour
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Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
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There are lots of different activities that cause us to sweat more than usual. Hot weather, exercise and doing something that makes us feel anxious...
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Mar 2009
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Boys' breasts
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Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
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Older boys can develop breast tissue as can some older men, so it is not an unusual thing to happen.
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Mar 2009
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Puberty
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Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
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Puberty is the time in our lives when our sexual reproductive organs mature. This means our bodies become capable of having babies.
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Feb 2009
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Puberty
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Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
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Puberty: young people begin to develop the outward signs of becoming an adult and when they become able to reproduce (have a baby).
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Nov 2008
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