Speaking of girls and puberty process as a part of biology course in primary school, it is very often difficult not to cause excessive embarrassment amongst pupils. Apparently, primary school age is still not enough to forget about giggling and blushing whenever the very word puberty is mentioned.
Teaching biology in primary school can be a real tall order especially when the course has to focus on the aspects related to girls and puberty process. Funnily enough, usually it’s not girls themselves who make it for such a hard job but boys. At times, whenever words such as breasts, menstruations, vagina, period or genitals are mentioned the class begins giggling or blushing leaving the teacher in two minds about the whole thing. Either thirteen-year-olds aren’t old enough to discuss issued related to girls and puberty or they do it because they want to destroy a lesson. According to education specialists and psychologists it’s both but most of the time giggles are a result of insufficient age. The research has shown that pupils until 16 or even 17 years of age will normally react to the girls and puberty subjects exactly the same as thirteen-year-olds. The only thing that can be done to change this is to start mentioning these subjects as early as possible so that children are given a sufficient amount of time to get used to what awaits them in the future.
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