Teen Health, Course 1

Chapter 8: Growth and Development

Parent Letters - English

Parent Letter and Activities
For use with Chapter 8

Dear Parent or Guardian,

Your student’s health class is currently studying growth and development. The topics include adolescence, human reproduction, and heredity and the life cycle.

Questions your child will consider include: What physical, mental/emotional, and social changes take place during adolescence? How do hormones affect growth and development? What are the jobs of the male and female reproductive systems? How is an egg cell fertilized? How does a developing unborn baby receive nutrients and oxygen? With your help, your student will explore these topics with confidence and find answers that will provide information for making healthful choices. Your participation in the exploration of these topics is vital.

To support and extend our classroom work, please set aside some time during the next few weeks to complete one or more of the following activities with your child.

  • Share your family health history, including any conditions or traits that may be inherited. Does your child think he or she has inherited any traits from you?
  • Talk in positive ways about the physical and mental/emotional changes your child has been going through. Tell him stories about yourself as you went through adolescence.
  • Help your child understand the process of fertilization and development of a fetus by looking in medical and/or health textbooks. Allow the child to ask you questions, and answer them as directly as possible.
Please engage in other activities that you feel will help your child understand growth and development. Thank you very much for your attention. As always, please feel free to contact me.

Sincerely,

Health Teacher

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