Puberty+5th+grade+Education

PUBERTY HAPPENS

Whether you want it to or not, your child is growing up and their body is changing. It is important to make sure they are prepared and understand the changes that are going on in their bodies.

Toward the end of the school year, the 5th grade girls are taken by Mollie Babcock- Guidance and Jessica Ganchi- Nurse and the boys are taken by Ryan Marsh- and Chris Beyer- teacher, to review some basic education on puberty. They are shown a video and have time to ask questions. You, the parent, will receive a notice home in your child's school folder alerting you of when this lesson is going to occur.

Click on this link to view the [|Puberty Video] that is shown for 5th grade puberty education. You will need to find on the bottom of the page the "video" section and click on either "Always Changing- Girls" or "Always Changing- Boys" for the video you would like to preview. They are about 20 minutes in length.

If you want to have a discussion with your child about puberty, there are many books and websites out there that can help. Below is a list of resources recommended Always.

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My Little Red Book – a collection of short stories about first periods from girls and women of all ages around the world, Rachel Kauder Nalebuff, 2009

Growing Up – It’s a Girl Thing, Mavis Jukes, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1998

My Body, My Self, Lynda Madaras and Area Madaras, Newmarket Press, 1993

Period. , JoAnn Gardner-Loulan, B onnie Lopez, Marcia Quackenbush, Volcano Press, 1993

The New Teenage Body Book, Kathy McCoy, PhD, and Charles Wibbelsman, MD,

Putnam Publishing Group, 1992 The Period Book, Karen and Jennifer Gravelle, Walker and Company, 1996 What’s Happening to Me? , Peter Mayle, Carol Publishing Group, 1997 The What’s Happening to My Body? Book for Boys: A Growing-up Guide for Parents and Sons , Lynda Madaras and Area Madaras, Newmarket Press, 2000 The What’s Happening to My Body? Book for Girls: A Growing-up Guide for Parents and Daughters , Lynda Madaras and Area Madaras, Newmarket Press, 2000 Growing and Changing: A Handbook for Preteens, Kathy McCoy, PhD, and Charles Wibbelsman, MD, Berkley Publishing Group, 1986 Changes in You and Me: A Book About Puberty, Mostly for Boys, Paulette B ourgeois, Martin Wolfish and Kim Martyn, Andrews and McMeel, 1994 At the Threshold: The Developing Adolescent, S. Shirley Feldman and Glenn R. E lliot, Harvard University Press, 1993 It’s Perfectly Normal, Robie Harris, Candlewick Press, 1996 //__**websites:**__// beinggirl.com – A fun and informational website geared for teenage girls to use with their parents — remind students to check with their parents before using

always.com – Always products and information tampax.com – Tampax products and information nasn.org – National Association of School Nurses nih.gov – National Institutes of Health ama-assn.org – American Medical Association healthychats.com – a site for parents to help teach their children about health and puberty. From pediatrician, mother and health educator Dr. Chrystal de Freitas, MD, FAAP, founder of Healthy Chats LLC, a family health education resource