In a teenager’s life this process is full of roller coaster rides. These young adults experience such fast changes in their Physical, Psychological, Sexual and emotional selves that it leaves them baffled. It’s not simply self-consciousness they feel, but often real anxiety and distress at the unpredictability and inevitability of it all.

As children grow up, they need to learn, adapt, and feel comfortable and confident about the changes taking place in their body and thinking pattern and also the way they see and perceive the world around them. They need appropriate and continuous counselling and guidance both from parents, teachers and counsellors.

Parents at times have problems in accepting that children are sexual beings who need to know about their bodies. Some feel embarrassed to talk about sexuality with their children so they prefer to defer. Some parents of course do this job wonderfully and help make their children responsible members of the society yet some leave them to learn things on their own, by trial and error method.

A caring school environment can provide an invaluable halfway house between the security of home and the demands and pressures of the adult world. Trained teachers and Counsellors at school do a wonderful job of imparting accurate, and age appropriate information to children regarding the physiological, psychological, sexual and emotional changes taking place in them. Just knowing about oneself is not sufficient, it’s equally important to know about the changes that takes place in the opposite sex and be sensitive towards it. Providing sexuality education in school helps these young grownups learn to be responsible to handle their newly acquired sexuality, learn the pros and cons of risk behaviours.