G6 teachers and students conducted an activity on puberty education from a new perspective. The YD program focused on two topics: appropriate social distance between male and female classmates during puberty and how to correctly cope with appearance and body image anxiety.

In the discussion on the appropriate distance between male and female students, the teachers emphasized the importance of respect and understanding between students. Adolescence is a period of gradual awakening of gender consciousness, in which male and female students need to maintain appropriate distance between one other. These boundaries not only safeguard respect for personal privacy, but are also the key to maintaining a campus-wide positive learning environment. Male and female students should also collectively learn to understand and respect the feelings of others together on a daily basis. While focusing on academics, students should also actively develop their social skills during puberty and learn to build healthy relationships with others on the basis of mutual respect.

At the same time, this puberty education also focused on the issue of appearance and body image anxiety faced by adolescents during developmental stages. The teachers interpreted scenarios step by step with the children through realistic examples and positive lesson messages. With the popularization of social media and the diversification of aesthetic concepts, adolescents devote increasing attention and importance to their own appearances and body shapes, and as a result become even more anxious. Teachers emphasized the importance of self-acceptance, encouraging children to recognize their own individual uniqueness and not to pursue "perfection" as defined by others and disconnected sources. The students were also reminded to avoid over-emphasizing physical appearance and body shape, and instead, to focus on cultivating and celebrating their inner qualities, talents and achievements.

This series of puberty education activities, with a novel perspective directly connected to children's daily speech and behavior, provided adolescents with vital coping guidance. After the YD class, the teachers summarized the analysis of puberty education theme lessons with plans to incorporate children's doubts and questions into the direction of grade-level future efforts. We believe that under the joint efforts of the school, family and society, our children will continue to develop into healthy, happy and confident adolescents.

(Written by Liu Dong            Pictures by Liu Dong          Edited by Cong Luo, Bianca Noguera)