Puberty is affected by nature and nurture. Please explain and list examples.

Based on the information in lecture about adolscents (imaginary audience and personal fable) can professionals make a difference in helping teens avoid dangerous behaviors (smoking, drinking, unprotected sex)? How as a parent do you get your adolescent not to participate in dangerous behaviors if you did them yourself? Would you encourage adolescents to delay initiating sexual activity until they are older or married? Would you encourage them to stop if they had already started? How would you convince them to stop? Adolescents are physically more adult-like in appearance. What are the implications regarding society's (teachers, police, court system, parents, etc) expectations?

Puberty is affected by nature by there is a major growth spurt to both males and females. Puberty is also affected by natural hormones in our body; Testosterones for males and Estrogen for females but both sexes have those same hormones that help construct our natural body. Also, genes affect us by making the structure of who we are in the environment. For girls, their breasts begin to develop, pubic hair develop in many parts of the body, the size of the uterus increases, and females undergo through the beginning of their menstrual cycle called Menarche. Meanwhile for boys, the testes and penis increases in size as well as appearance of pubic hair, they have their first ejaculation called spermarche, facial hair appears and their voice deepens. Nurture also affects puberty such how the parents, friends, peers, the community, and how the environment interacts with teenagers. If they are around positive environment and with real friends, they are most likely to engage in positive behavior. Teens also learn to experiment with drugs, and engage in sexual activities with their opposite genders but it just a normal experience for them. It is the parents, guardians, and adults responsibility to safely guide the teens and give them advices that would make them lead to a safer, happier life.
Yes, parents, adults, guardians, and professionals can make a difference in helping teens avoid dangerous behaviors. Why, because they can provide guidance to the teens, and they can help by providing advise and tips. At the same time, it might be hard for them to stop the teens because teens feel invincible and think they can do whatever they want, and that is just a part of their behavior development. They also begin establishing their own identity, and experimenting new things with curiousity. However, adults can still help in providing love, care, advise and warnings to their teenage sons/daughters so that they won't take the road of harmful living. Since as a parent, I used to engage in dangerous behaviors but I have gained wisdom and knowledge about it, I will safely tell and advise my teens to try and not engage in dangerous activites. I will take them to workshops and activities that reenact real life examples of the dangers, and terrible experiences once someone engages in bad behavior, and make them know the important and necessary information so that they will know the consequences and bad things at some extent. If they do this, I might be disappointed but at the same time, I wouldn't just leave my adolescent child feeling guilty and regretful. I will try and fully understand him/her at my deepest consent, and I will still be a loving parent to my children no matter what.

I will encourage my adolescent teens to delay any initiating sexual activity till they are older or married because it would be very safe for them not to engage any sexual activity till they are physically, socially, and congitively ready, but at the same time, I would not know what they are doing outside my radar, but it is still my responsibility to give them advise and warn them to not have sex at an early age. If my teenage childen do engage in sexual activity, I will tell my male children to wear condoms, and anything that would always be in protective measures, and if my child was female, I would just safely tell her to not engange in sex because there will be a risk of getting pregnant and getting diseases from having sex such as HIV, herpes, and gonnorhea, and she might not be fully ready in engaging sexual activity especially if it would mostly hurt herself and her body. If they had started, I would try and advise them to stop because I wouldn't want them to be risking themselves in those kind of behaviors, getting diseases, and the risking of getting someone or her own self pregnant, but at the same time, it is my teenagers choice to make her own decisions because they are capable of thinking and making wise decisions, and I just want to lead them to a safer and healthy road of adolescent life. As adolescents grow, they become physically look like adults in appearance, but their social and cognitive abilities are not fully developed, and they are still on the road to learning new things around their environment. Society's implications toward adolescents usually have higher expectations for the child, and making sure they are on the positive, and safe road since teenagers will soon transcend into becoming adults. Teachers expect teenagers to be mature, and be willing to learn new material, and engage themselves in thinking smart and critically so that they can use everything they've learned in real life. The state, police, and court system expects adolescents to be obedient, and be law-abiding citizens since teenagers must learn to respect authority at all times, and always act on good morals and standards for everyone in order to be fair. Meanwhile, parents usually have higher expectations for their sons/daughters, and they would want them to always engage in safe behavior, graduate through high school and college, and then eventually settle for their own careers once they become adults, and parents will always be their for children no matter what, as long as it both makes the parents and their children happy.