Preparing For Your First Period (Ages 9-10)

Keep your immune system strong   Chlamydia and gonorrhea don’t always show symptoms Always use a condom Before your daughter graduates from high school, let’s make sure she has a clear understanding about the common bacterial STDs, what they look like, and how they are treated.…

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We are so careful to make sure that our daughters are ready for their first period. But after they start having regular monthly periods, they have likely reached the end of puberty and have entered sexual maturity. This is a big deal. Although your daughter…

So often we emphasize concepts in reproduction and forget that our teen might not understand the basic information behind the concept. For example, although they might know that a condom helps prevent pregnancy, do they know how the condom does that? This illustration would be…