The average onset of puberty is about two years earlier than a generation ago
. Well over half of tweens and teens report body image issues. The average age of first exposure to porn is 12 for boys and not much later for girls. Those are just a few of the takeaways in a new book, “this is so awkward,” aptly lowercased and titled to break down all things puberty for today's parents.
One of the biggest ways it is inconclusive is the why behind puberty starting earlier. We’ve known for more than a decade that the average age for girls to enter puberty is between 8 and 9, and for boys it's between 9 and 10. What is hard to wrap our brains around, and the science is not there yet, is the lowest common denominator of what’s causing it. We know that there are endocrine-disrupting chemicals in the world that we put into and onto our bodies. That’s probably playing a role.
And by the way, they don’t always agree on the meanings themselves. Even the word sex. So sex can mean vaginal-penile intercourse. It can mean oral sex, anal sex. Our generation thinks of sex as one version, but kids these days think of it as a number of different things. Adults are imprecise with their language and don’t get far enough down the path of having kids define what it is to them and how they perceive it.
Our culture is changing so rapidly. We're going to get stuff wrong. We’re going to get the language wrong, we’re going to get definitions wrong, we’re going to get our approach wrong because society changes and our kids are changing. What worked for them six months ago may not work for them now. And we have to be flexible. Part of being flexible is taking do-overs.
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