Puberty for Girls – You and Your New Body Magnetic Pack

This innovative product allows you to produce your own ‘Puberty’ display using the 39 picture magnets, 2 blank magnets and text descriptions provided. The Puberty for Girls pack when placed on the My BodyBoard can then be assembled as a display, or the magnets taken off and another My BodyBoard magnetic pack such as the ‘Puberty For Boys’ pack used to begin a new lesson. The Professional pack costs £60 and the School pack £40.

Faces: We believe it's important that you are able to choose the appropriate face for your class. We have therefore created faces from different ethnic backgrounds.

Tanner Stages: One through five to show breast and sexual organs in development through puberty.

Breasts – Different Shapes & Sizes: Girls often have issues with the size of their breasts. Girls with large breasts may feel that heavy breasts cause back and shoulder pain. Girls with small breasts may feel that their breasts aren’t like the breasts on the covers of fashion magazines. Also, there are a lot of false ideas about breasts. Some people think that girls with larger breasts are more sexually experienced (wrong!). The truth of the matter is that breasts come in all sorts of different shapes and sizes.

Bra (brassiere): Women's breasts vary widely in size and shape; most are asymmetric and can change from month to month depending on the menstrual cycle, pregnancy, or weight gain or loss. As a result, 75–85% of women wear an incorrect bra size.

Female Reproductive System: The female reproductive system (female genitals) contains two main parts. The first part is the uterus, which hosts the developing baby and produces vaginal and uterine secretions. The second part consists of the fallopian tubes; and the ovaries.

Pubic Hair: Pubic hair is on the surface parts of the female external genitalia. After puberty pubic hair distribution is an inverted triangle.

Underarm Hair Growth: Underarm hair, as is typical of pubic hair and most of the other kinds of human body hair, normally starts to appear at the beginning of puberty, with growth usually completed by the end of the teen-age years.

Managing Body Odour: Body odour (you may have heard people call it B.O. for short), is something that every adult gets, keeping skin well-ventilated and dry can prevent growth of odour-producing bacteria.

Increased Hair Growth over Body: Puberty marks the time when hair starts to thicken or grow in areas where no hair grew before. Females can expect hair to thicken on the legs and arms and grow in the armpits and genital area.

Razor: A razor is a sharp blade that cuts the hair off close to the skin. Shaving removes the tip of the hair shaft that pokes out of the skin, but the hair grows back.

Shaving: When hair is on body parts and not the head, sometimes people shave it off. Young kids don't usually do this, but older girls might shave or wax their underarms, legs genitals and sometimes the arms if excessively hairy.

Widening of Hips: As the pelvis (the large bone across the hips) begins to grow, the hips get wider, the breasts develop and the waist gets smaller. In other words, girls’ bodies become softer and shapelier.

Deepening of Voice: Under the influence of hormones known as androgens, the voice box, or larynx, grows in both sexes. Before puberty, the larynx of boys and girls is about the same size. Most of the voice change happens during stage 3-4 of puberty around the time of peak growth.

Ovulation Cycle: The first part of the ovulation cycle is called the follicular phase. This phase starts the first day of the last menstrual period (LMP) and continues until ovulation. This first half of the cycle can differ greatly for each woman lasting anywhere from 7 days until 40 days. The second half of the cycle is called the luteal phase and is from the day of ovulation until the next period begins. The luteal phase has a more precise timeline and usually is only 12-16 days from the day of ovulation.

Menstruation (Period): Menstruation is the discharge of blood from the uterus (womb). It is composed of the lining of the uterus (endometrium) together with fresh blood caused by the breaking of very fine blood vessels within the uterus as they detach from the inside of the uterus.

Menstrual Cycle: The menstrual cycle is the term for the changes that can occur in fertile women for sexual reproduction and fertilization.

Period pains (dysmenorrhoea): Dysmenorrhoea is a medical condition where there is pain during menstruation that interferes with daily activities.

Tampon: A tampon is inserted into the vagina to catch blood during a period before it exits the vagina.

A Pantiliner (also pantliner, panty liner or panty shield): is an absorbent piece of material used for feminine hygiene. It is worn in the gusset of a woman's panties.

Brain: Puberty is initiated by hormonal signals from the brain to the gonads, which are, the ovaries in a girl and the testes in a boy.

Hormones during Puberty: Hormones play a large role during puberty. They are the cause of many of the body’s physical changes during puberty. Hormones will cause your body shape to change, breast to grow, hips to widen, periods to start, female eggs to ripen and new areas of body fat to develop.

Acne: Acne is caused when the pores of the skin become clogged with excess oil, dirt or sebum. Rampant hormones cause the body to produce this extra sebum, which can become a breeding ground for bacteria that thrives in the excess oil on puberty-fuelled skin.

Arguing: Anger is a natural human emotion and during puberty, feelings become more intense because of hormonal changes. Teens can feel enormous pressure as they make the transition from childhood to adulthood.

PMS (Pre-Menstrual Syndrome): Girls start to experience a mixture of emotions when their hormones kick in at puberty. It is important to maintain good nutrition so that you can avoid hormonal imbalance and mood swings.

Distance from Parents: As girls and boys go through puberty, they also begin to go through big changes in their thoughts and feelings. As children get older, you become less dependent on your parents and more dependent on yourself.

Bullying: The physical changes that occur during puberty can cause considerable worry for young people. Girls often compare themselves to their friends, and worry if they are growing or changing faster or slower – this can also lead to bullying from other girls because they are different.

Personal Grooming – Awareness of Appearance: Puberty and adolescence are times of significant physical and psychological change in young people. Awareness of appearance often intensifies during these years.

Butterflies in the Stomach: It is common for one to feel butterflies in the stomach when in the early stages of a romantic relationship. Butterflies in the stomach are often seen as a positive and harmless sign of one's subconscious feelings for one's romantic interest and are caused by the release of mood altering hormones called endorphins.

Romantic relationships: During the teen years, sexual feelings are awakened in new ways because of the hormonal and physical changes of puberty. These changes involve both the body and the mind, and teens may wonder about new, and often intense, sexual feelings.

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