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you need to include up past school leaving too
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12 – 16 years:
•Moving on to college, university or starting a job.
•Leaving friends.
•Leaving home to start at university.
•Family structure change.
•Completing homework.
•Choosing options / career.
•Examinations.
•Hormones / puberty.
•Moving house or relocating.
The onset of puberty will affect all children with hormonal changes.
•In boys these include the production of the *** hormone testosterone which will result in the rapid growth of their forehead, jaw line and facial hair. This also triggers the voice to break, sweat glands to produce a different type of sweat. The boy’s testicles and penis will start to enlarge and pubic hair will grow.
•In girls these include the production of two *** hormones oestrogen which initiates puberty and progesterone which prepares the body for pregnancy. This also triggers sweat glands to produce a different type of sweat, the enlargement of the breast, areola and milk ducts, pubic hair will grow and the pelvic bone and hips will widen with the onset of the menstrual cycle.
All children at the age of 14 will have to choose main options or subjects to study. These choices may influence secondary education, higher education or their future career. As these choices will affect the child into adulthood there is a great responsibility on the child to study the right subject and not to just follow their peers. This may involve the realisation and acceptance that the child may enjoy a subject but not have the academic ability to succeed.