(Of course, this isn`t a hard and fast rule.) Physical changes for girls begin as early as two years before menstruation. This might mean pains in her breast area or the appearance of soft ...

Discover why children are entering puberty years earlier than previous generations. Environmental chemicals and obesity ...

Growth and development in puberty consists of not only physical changes, but changes in emotions, personality, behavior, thinking, and speech as well. In other words, your boy or girl is a child ...

These reproductive development changes can have physical and emotional repercussions down the road. In the short term, “girls who go through puberty earlier grow faster and stop earlier,” says ...

The film, about an Asian Canadian teen going through puberty, reflects how, for Asians, those teen years are confounding not only because of the physical changes ... age of many girls in the ...

Puberty typically begins between the ages of 9 and 11, which is when physical changes start to appear. The Tanner Stages are used to describe specific changes that children and teens may ...

We examined longitudinal changes in physical activity in a large, biracial cohort of adolescent girls and examined racial differences and other factors associated with these changes. The National ...