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Puberty is a stage of life where children progress from being children to become young adults. This is a stage when the human body undergoes a number of changes over several years, and this effects different people in different ways. During this stage of life young adults are not only subject to physical change, they are also subject to the influence of the media including newspapers, TV shows, magazines, the internet including many different websites and online content. I have looked at a number of these and I have written my thoughts below. The first two of these offer educational material on many different topics while the third website targets young girls.

BBC NEWS The BBC News website presents a lot of valuable information that helps parents and teenagers deal with the realities of puberty in a common sense way by providing explanations and information on puberty as well as a number of ways to keep fit and stay in shape. This information is aimed at parents who are more likely to visit the site, however the information allows parents to help their kids deal with the changes they will experience during puberty.

Teens Health Website This website seems to present a realistic discussion on adolescence and puberty by dividing this stage of life into small pieces of information that are easy to understand. For example the site is broadly divided into area for parents, kids and teens, and each of these areas contain information that relates to each broad age group. The teens part of the website covers the following topics: your body, your mind, sexual health, food and fitness, recipes for teens, drugs and alcohol, expert answers about being a teenager, diseases and infection, school and jobs and staying safe.

Dolly website I had a brief look at the Dolly website and it seems to contain information that targets young teenage girls and their area of interest. There is a lot of information relating to fashion, popular actors and musicians, there is a blog, there are lots of photos of popular people and I think that these aspects of the website could easily influence a teenager who is going through puberty. I am uncertain whether the influences are all good or all bad or a combination of good and bad. For example, showing photos of skinny attractive people may motivate the reader to improve their own appearance however the same photos could affect others differently by making them feel bad about themselves.