The first monthly is a disturbing event both for the girl, and for parents. The teenage period is filled with alarms and doubts. Therefore it is very important to give the child useful and necessary information which will help it to be prepared for the forthcoming physiological and psychological changes.
Instruction
1. Growing of the girl is followed by changes of physiological and psychological character. This period does not do without doubts and alarms. The yesterday's child begins to change in the eyes, turning into the adult girl. In the teenage period the angular figure of the girl is rounded, becoming more womanly. The breast begins to grow, hair under mice and in intimate parts of a body appear. Level of sex hormones in an organism increases, causing puberty.
2. Approximately aged from 10 up to 16 years at teenage girls the first periods (menarche) begin. The first monthly for each girl – a disturbing and joyful event. Psychological features (emotions, reactions, behavior) each person are individual. Therefore relation of teenage girls to the forthcoming event as to growing process also different. So, some girls look forward to the beginning of the first monthly while others – feel various fears and experiences about it.
3. Straight talk on growing and the first periods helps to remove the cause of alarm of the maturing girl. It is important that the teenager had an opportunity to discuss the delicate moments with the adult of one with him a floor: mom, elder sister, grandmother. It is known that the age of approach of the first periods is affected by also hereditary factor. It is possible that the first monthly at the daughter will begin approximately at the same age in what came at her mother.
4. If the conversation on a menstrual cycle is held with the girl by mom, then she needs to share own experience and experiences. Such psychological support will help to understand to the teenage child that the first periods – important and informidable process through which there pass all women.
5. In a confidential conversation it is important to find out the concerning moments, to explain them and to answer all arising questions. As a rule, girls are disturbed by the volume of the forthcoming blood loss during monthly and painful feelings. Full information on features of a menstrual cycle in this case will significantly facilitate disorders of the teenager. Special attention should be paid to a question of intimate hygiene, signs of approach of the first periods and its characteristics.
6. It is recommended to add knowledge of the teenager also by means of special literature (the encyclopedia, the brochure) and the training movies. It is necessary to pick up books in which well and process of periods is it is clear stated, and then to check them together with the girl.