Green apples hanging on the branches: 88 growth secrets that middle school students should know

Author: Liu Chang
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Publish Date: 2006-06-01
Features: Explores sensitive issues of adolescence, reveals the secrets of privacy in adolescence, lets us have a heart-to-heart conversation, and exposes the secrets of boys and girls. This book is a must-read dictionary for all boys and girls, and also a care manual for all parents and teachers. Youth is a bright landscape, and growing up is a moving melody. But during the process of growing up, you will inevitably encounter various unexpected problems. 88 secrets of growing up, 88 easy-to-understand analyses, 88 warm suggestions, involving the most typical problems in physiology, psychology, life, and health. Just like your closest friend, it can not only dispel the clouds hanging over your heart but also help you remove the stumbling blocks on your growth path, so that your youth train can run smoothly. If you encounter troubles during your growth, if your friends have unresolveable confusions, or if your parents or teachers don’t understand your behavior, please open this growth manual with them. Your doubts and gaps will be resolved. This book will become your most intimate youth companion. In the innocent middle school days, boys and girls grow rapidly in body and mind: the prominent gender characteristics make them clearly distinguish between boys and girls in their hearts; that tender emotion adds many imposed sorrows to their carefree hearts; and the simple ones also learn to fight for the future’s responsibility in this flower-like middle school era. All this often leaves them unprepared, and they ask themselves in the dark, in this season of growth, how many secrets are waiting to be explored? This book will untie the many knots that trouble the growing-up teenagers. Youth is as shy as a flower bud, so let the blooming season slowly unfold in silent reading. Strolling through the long river of youth, the familiar scenery of the past has changed. Don’t know from when, the smooth face has grown fine hair, and sparse stubble has begun to sprout around the lips. On one morning, facing the morning light in the mirror, you suddenly discover that you are no longer the ignorant child of the past, and thus, you enter the journey of youth in a daze. Facing these changes you’ve never encountered before, you really feel lost. Those sprouting stubbles have added a lot of trouble to us, like the experience of Liu Yang in the following text, have you ever had it? Liu Yang is a young man in his adolescence. Don’t know from when, some sparse stubble began to appear around his lips. Every time he looked in the mirror, he felt these stubble affected his handsomeness, so he got into the habit of using tweezers to pull the stubble when he had nothing to do, just like the others in the dormitory. Although it is natural for people to love beauty, he didn’t expect that a few days after pulling the stubble, his chin began to swell, and the right half of his face also swelled. This scared him badly, so he rushed to the hospital to see a doctor. After the doctor’s diagnosis and analysis, he learned that his appearance was due to bacterial infection of the sebaceous glands caused by pulling the stubble. Boys are certainly familiar with such behavior, and maybe you’ve been fighting with the stubble in the mirror recently. Clinically, it is often possible to see cases like Liu Yang, and the patients are mostly boys in their adolescent development. When boys enter adolescence, their bodies undergo great changes, which is undoubtedly and very normal. With the gradual maturation of sexual development, stubble will appear on the lips of boys, which is a very natural phenomenon, indicating that you have started to grow up. However, some boys think that stubble is not beautiful and affects appearance, so they often pull the stubble one by one with their hands or tweezers. Don’t think this is no big deal. In fact, pulling stubble is a very bad hygiene habit, and it will also affect your health. It may sound a bit sensational, but if you don’t believe it, you might as well first find out what parts stubble is made of. Once you understand this, you’ll know why Liu Yang’s pulling stubble turned him into a “swollen-face king.” Stubble is a type of hair, and structurally, it is the same as other parts of the body, divided into the following parts: the part exposed to the skin is called the hair shaft, the part buried in the skin is called the hair root, the enlarged part at the end of the hair root is called the hair bulb, the concave part at the lower end of the hair bulb is called the hair papilla, and the hair papilla contains nerve endings and blood vessels, which supply nutrients to the hair and receive sensory information. The sac-like structure around the hair root is called the hair follicle, and it is connected to the nearby sebaceous glands. As long as there is a hair bulb, hair papilla, and a complete hair follicle, the hair can regenerate. Although pulling stubble is painful, it actually only pulls off the hair shaft and hair root. Since the hair bulb, hair papilla, and hair follicle cannot be removed, the stubble can still grow back, and it will never be a one-time solution. Pulling stubble is very easy to damage the facial skin, hair follicles, and adjacent sebaceous glands. Once damaged, the bacteria on the surface of the skin will take advantage of the opportunity to cause inflammation of the hair follicles and sebaceous glands, forming boils or causing the lips or even the face to swell. Seeing this, you should understand why Liu Yang ended up like that! Pulling stubble may be a “small effort,” but it can make you suffer if you’re not careful, or even “lose face.” So, if you also have this habit, you must break it off in time. If you really feel that stubble somewhat affects your handsomeness, you can choose to shave it off with a razor, which is both time-saving and labor-saving. What’s the fun of that? P2-3