AT THIS TIME in your life, on some days it might seem like . . . everything!
Your body is changing.
Your feelings are changing.
Your relationships with your friends and family members are changing.
It hardly seems fair, does it?
Especially because often as a boy gets older, he finds that it gets more difficult to talk with the adults in his life about the kind of things he used to. There are a few very good reasons for this:
He might be afraid to ask a question he thinks he should already know the answer to.
He might feel like he doesn’t know the best (or the most polite) word to use to describe something that is happening with his body.
He might be worried that something he is feeling isn’t normal, and that people would laugh at him if they knew what was going on in his head (or his body!).
Not very fun, but it is 100% normal!
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And it isn’t just kids who sometimes develop troubles communicating. You may have noticed that sometimes the adults around you have trouble talking about the changes you are going through.
It seems like they should be able to handle it, since they’ve been through this hard “kid to adult” transition themselves. So what are they worried about? Mostly the same things you are!
They might worry about not having all the right information.
They might remember how awkward this time was for them and feel like they don’t have any advice to help you get through it.
They might even be worried (does this sound familiar?) of not knowing the correct or polite terms for body parts and body processes.
And especially, they might be worried about giving you more information than you want to know or are ready for.
So with boys and adults all red-faced and stammering and stuttering it makes it hard for information to flow back and forth. That’s where this book comes in.
There’s no such thing as a stupid question.
This book has a lot of information about the changes that are coming your way. We hope it will answer many of your questions so that you feel more ready and informed and less confused and scared.