Puberty

Puberty * Sexual maturation or puberty is the biological event that marks the end of childhood.


 * Hormones produce diffrent growth patterns in boys and girls.


 * Some girls may start to mature as early as 8 and boys might start to mature at 9 or 10 years old.
 * Thirteen is the average age for puberty to start.


 * Before they hit puberty they normally have a growth spurt.


 * A Growth spurt is a rapid increase in weight and height.


 * Normally it happens to females between the ages of 10-14 and in boys the ages of 11-16, it normally lasts two years soon after the hit sexual maturity.

Once a growth spurt begins they can grow an average of 3 inches a year.


 * The girls begin there first menstrual period at the age of 13.


 * Boys begin to develop pubic hair and larger genitals at the age of 12.


 * At the age of 13 their first ejaculation or spermarche.[[image:http://uchspsychology.wikispaces.com/space/showimage/3675344128.jpg]]

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