What are the effects of nonverbal communication between parents and their teens about puberty?

mlopez: What are the effects of nonverbal communication between parents and their teens about puberty?
Where do teens find info about puberty besides from parents?
What are the outcome for the teens?
Is it a negative outcome?
Why isn’t there communication between parents and their teens?

Answers and Views:

Answer by – αsια [primary] Ei3 – #2
Internet, friends, media etc.

Answer by sensfan
normaly if they dont find it out from parents they find it out from TV, internet and friends. Its better to hear it from your parents because a) the teen can be sure its correct information and b) they aren’t going to be confused and have someone to talk to if they get questions

Answer by evieee:)
i think they dont talk about it because its awkward and their trying to avoid that. the outcome of the teens who learn about it from something other than their parents isnt really different from the ones who learned from their parents. the negative outcome is they might feel that they cant go talk to their parents about the changes their going through and they might feel they cant ask their parents about it.

teens can find out about puberty from the internet and also there are a lot of books about it. a really good one is called ” The Care & Keeping of YOU: The Body Book for Girls”
that book is really good it helps me with all the problems i have

Answer by Domenic F
They touch their PENIS or VAGINA and they’re like “hmm this feels good what do I do with it?” After that they experiment a bit and ask around and look around and find out.