A Guide to Puberty

Rich in information and advice to help make the transition from childhood to adolescence less bumpy, the psychology and skills book "What is puberty?" published by Women's Publishing House in February 2025 is truly a valuable handbook not only for teenagers but also to help parents understand, accept and learn how to connect and be companions with their children during puberty.

What should parents do to understand and accompany their children when they enter puberty? What can be done to help teenagers overcome their impulsive moments, not feel lost, bored, confused or depressed at school, overcome challenges and turn puberty into “the years of youth”? These are not easy questions to answer and not easy to implement. But readers can easily find the answers through the book “What is puberty?”.

Book cover.

With a thickness of 186 pages, printed in size 17x24cm, the book "What is puberty?" is structured into 7 "survival tips" revolving around the life of puberty: Family, friends, emotions, changes in the body, school and clothing choices. The updated information will answer questions about puberty when there are changes in growing psychology. In particular, the authors, including: Dr. Harriet S. Mosatche - university lecturer, Head of Psychology and Vice President of the Girl Scouts of the United States; Master Karen Unger - Program Development Manager at the Boy Scouts of the United States, have many useful tips to help teenagers discover themselves, strengthen their skills, learn to understand and handle their own emotions, build friendships, connect more with relatives, know how to set goals and find ways to complete them, plan for their future.

There are many useful tips that can be listed from this handbook. For example, to overcome family conflicts when teenagers want more freedom to explore the world and assert themselves but are bound by strict rules from their parents, the advice for them is: “Be responsible! If you want to be able to do more things - stay up later, go out with friends, save money to do what you want, you need to prove to your family that you can use your freedom properly”. Properness is shown through being on time for appointments, knowing how to make a chart of household chores to do every day or every week, proactively monitoring and implementing the agreement on the amount of time using electronic devices in a week, making the bed every day before going to school, taking out the trash at least once a week, not leaving clean clothes on the floor...

Or to strengthen family bonds, the advice is to regularly tell jokes and riddles to each other, watch comedies together, play word guessing games, act out acts that make everyone laugh. Or create digital photo albums together to relive beautiful memories.

Or in the case of being bullied at school, the advice is to ask for help from friends, because it is not easy to bully or tease someone who always has friends around. Along with that, avoid the bully, never be alone anywhere, whether it is the hallway, the toilet, or other places where that person can find you; or go far away or run away from that person, quickly move to a safe place. In particular, you need to persistently talk to your parents, teachers, principals, school drivers or other adults for help with the principle: "Keep talking about bullying until you are listened to".

It can be said that, not only providing useful information about gender, through the translation of translator Ngo Ha Thu (Master of Cultural Studies, University of Sydney, Australia), the book "What is puberty?" has contributed to giving teenagers and parents many solutions to deal with anger, deal with pressure from friends, family, school, increase community activities, it is truly a useful book for teenagers.

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