Show Your Doctor Dottor Says T The Tt lot oll li is ont one of t f 1 a II wit series e of oI 1 articles written by hI members of 1 the te With Utah State Stare Medical As Association and In III n roco cooperation with your lOut local lo 10 o cat cal These c. artie are lire ached cd to appear every other ether week throughout the year In III an 11 effort to letter better acquaint you Oil tv with rh problems e o of 1 health end and designed to Improve the beir c of o the people t ot of l Uth Tt iE ADOLESCENT GIRL Part 1 t IA tA A Tiny Tears doll a new MW doll cradle a n beach ba ball 11 was her list two years ago This year her Christmas list was all clothes i t felt circle skirt a nylon half hall slip alip s six JC yards around The new Christmas requests arc are as liS reliable a harbinger of adolescence as the changing contours of ot the young ladys lady's body Often Orten these changes of adolescence strike the parents suddenly because mothers and fathers lathers are reluctant to lose a achild achild achild child to the mysterious limbo of adolescence and Childbirth without fear has become become be be- come a near cult with relief of fear from repeated explanations Could we achieve adolescence without awe owe by making use o the same educational techniques It ItIs Itis Itis is difficult to fear intensely that which Is well known First examine some fads facts about the onset of adolescence in girls There is marked individual variation vari varl variation ati n in the age at which adolescence adolescence cence occurs It is important to understand that this phase of life has a slow beginning and follows n i course lourse of somewhat irregular development over many years ears The beginning of adolescence Is called puberty Changes In Inactivity inactivity activity of ot the endocrine glands initiate the more obvious changes in in the girls girl's body Hair grows under he her het arms The pubic hair begins to appear Tier Her breasts enlarge en- en J large gradually She notices that she he is taller than the boys in her room loom nt at school These changes may often be seen as early as ten tenor tenor tenor or eleven cleven years of or age At about the time of puberty she he may become very self cons con can s-clous s about her body Her lIer feelings feeling's feel feel- inns ings may be a n mixture of pride and nt about her merging emerging womanliness Hence the Christmas list 01 of the special clothes clothe which comprise I a kind of ot colorful billowy uniform of ot adolescents ado ado- At Al eleven to fifteen years of age the girl experiences the most dramatic of her physiological changes Menstruation begins She should know beforehand that the menstrual cycle is normal She should be told that there is no dangerous loss of ot blood She should not be led to believe that it Is a time of pain or illness However she should not be asked to deny that she the feels some discomfort discomfort discomfort dis dis- comfort or emotional change Instead In In- stead she should be reassured that the discomforts she may feel are arc of no major importance She must bo be reassured that although she may be by menstruation a atlon lan At lit times she can not be harmed by normal menstruation Just as the process of ot digestion may become faulty so can menstruation menstruation menstruation men men- vary from the healthy cycle that It normally is Digestive disturbances are not signals for violent alarm and unusual symptoms symptoms toms connected with menstruation should merely suggest a II trip to the doctor In the first year of the menstrual cycle it is expected there will be somo some irregularity Irregularity of the cycle during the first first year U f there are no other unusual symptoms need not b be a cause of worry It i ta Is advisable that this phase of the girls girl's development development de de- de be un under dol medical supervision Just as her other up growing-up processes have been During the adolescent changes In physiology and anatomy the girl has been moving toward maturity maturity maturity ma ma- in more subtle ways She spends a great deal of ot time thinking think ing lag about aboul herself as an adult Some girls feel such urgent need to prepare themselves for this state that they begin Spartan routines of self denial briefly But Dut Buta Duta a pleasantly unsettling characteristic character character- of or adolescence is that one tired old personality need not be bo kept long Her ller richer ricer emotional development gives the young woman vast new goals and her increased mental growth gives the means of attaining the goals Dut But these goals and skills are new With her restless drive she must change frequently She Is a II little lIlUe like the school boys boy's horseman who mounted his horse and rode off in all four directions You may be sure that your daughter will try on many new personalities before she decides Til Ill I'll buy that Continued |