Is your teenage son quick to be angry? Are you also quick to respond back? There is a way to turn down the heat. Your 13-year-old son’s room looks destroyed. You stop him in the kitchen and tell him he cannot go to the skateboard…
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13+ year old boys
Does This Angry Bird Look Like Your Son?
October 1, 2022
Written by: Dr. Shelley Metten
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13+ Year Old Boys
Boys
Slowly Walk Through Puberty
September 8, 2022
Written by: Dr. Shelley Metten
*Talk about puberty along the way *Let your child discover puberty small steps at a time When I started thinking about how to teach topics like puberty to young kids, I was convinced the best way was to teach the parents and then they could…
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Have You Talked to Your Son About Wet Dreams?
July 8, 2021
Written by: Dr. Shelley Metten
Maybe he won’t say it but this is what he feels after you talk to him about wet dreams. One of the top searched questions on Google by parents of adolescent boys is about wet dreams, also called nocturnal emissions. Not all boys experience these…
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Does Your 13-Year Old Son Know Anything About Ovulation?
November 19, 2020
Written by: Dr. Shelley Metten
When your adolescent son becomes 13 years or older, it is time for him to learn more about reproduction. The biology will be interesting to him because now he will begin to understand how the girl’s reproductive system works. I think most adolescents are interested…
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Eggs and Sperm Both Travel in Tubes to Their Destination
November 5, 2020
Written by: Dr. Shelley Metten
When helping your daughter understand how puberty is different for a boy, it is helpful to show common pathways. For example, eggs are produced in the ovaries and sperm are produced in the testicles. They both leave and follow along inside a tube to get…
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