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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 specially aimed at people going through puberty. You can find a range of information on puberty at:
Reviewed September 2007
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Puberty that happens early
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Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
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Puberty is said to be precocious (ie. very early) in girls if breasts start to develop before age 8 or periods start before age 9. In boys precocious puberty is when there is sexual development before age 9
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Jul 2008
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Adolescence
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Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
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Adolescence is the time when you begin changing from a kid to an adult. This doesn't happen overnight - in fact it happens over several years.
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Jul 2008
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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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Jun 2008
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Acne
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Better Health Channel
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Acne is a skin problem that usually includes mild to severe outbreaks of blackheads, pimples and cysts. Triggers include hormones associated with puberty. Self-help strategies include keeping the skin clean and resisting the urge to squeeze pimples.
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May 2008
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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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May 2008
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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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May 2008
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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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May 2008
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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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Apr 2008
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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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Apr 2008
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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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Feb 2008
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Dandruff - does your head feel itchy?
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Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
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Dandruff is itching and flaking of the scalp that some people start getting around puberty.
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Dec 2007
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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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Nov 2007
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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 changes, 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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Oct 2007
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Gynecomastia (male breasts)
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Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
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One of the unexpected changes that can happen to boys during puberty is that their breasts can start to grow. This is a common and normal part of development of males,
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Oct 2007
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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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Aug 2007
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Child development: 10-12 years
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Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
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It is in these three years that children move from 'childhood' to a view of a more adult world that they will clearly want or be forced to join in the near future
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Aug 2007
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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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Aug 2007
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Men's stuff
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Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
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| Description: |
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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Feb 2007
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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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Aug 2006
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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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| Date: |
Aug 2006
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