16: Human Development Video
Transcript:
Chapter 16 Video
INTERVIEWER (voice over): Today on Things We’d Rather Not Talk About, we are asking a group of teenagers about the P word.
INTERVIEWER: Define puberty.
RESPONSE: Man, I don’t even know where to get started with that.
RESPONSE: It’s this kind of terrible thing that happens when you get to a certain age and your whole brain just goes crazy.
RESPONSE: Puberty is that time in your life when your friends become just as important as your family. So life is suddenly full of drama.
RESPONSE: Puberty sucks.
INTERVIEWER: What happens when boys go through puberty?
RESPONSE: A lot of things.
INTERVIEWER: Just pick one.
RESPONSE: Um hair. They get hairy. Like lots of places.
RESPONSE: Our voices get like, really deep. And then they crack, like get all high pitched.
INTERVIEWER: They get deep. (talking in a forced deep voice) Like “Luke, I am your father.”
RESPONSE: Yeah. Maybe not quite like that.
INTERVIEWER: What happens when boys go through puberty?
RESPONSE 1: Boys? They stink.
RESPONSE 2: Like, even worse than before.
RESPONSE 1: And some of them get tall.
RESPONSE 2: Really tall.
RESPONSE 1: And somehow they get even more immature. I’m not sure how that’s possible.
INTERVIEWER: What happens when girls go through puberty?
RESPONSE 1: Do you really want me to describe it for you?
RESPONSE 2: Our bodies go through all these changes, like our skin starts to break out.
REPONSE 1 groans
RESPONSE 2: And we have to shave our legs and armpits.
RESPONSE 1: The worst.
INTERVIEWER: What happens when girls go through puberty?
RESPONSE 1: Girls get crazy.
RESPONSE 2: I mean it’s true. Half the time I have no idea what’s going through their heads.
RESPONSE 1: But they also get cool, too.
RESPONSE 2: Well obviously. You know, their bodies—they kind of—get shaped differently? Not that I pay any attention to that stuff or anything.
INTERVIEWER: What do you think has changed most about you and about your life over the last year or two?
RESPONSE: Well, probably how I spend my time. Who I hang out with. I spend more time with my friends now. Not that I don’t care about my family. Just, you know, it’s good to get out of the house.
RESPONSE: I’m starting to think more what I believe in and what I want to do with my life, and just thinking about the future more.
RESPONSE: I eat a lot. I’m pretty much always hungry.
INTERVIEWER: What would you say to an eight- or ten-year-old version of you about puberty?
RESPONSE: Don’t do it. Stay eight-year's-old forever.
RESPONSE: Uh learn to shave without cutting yourself.
RESPONSE: Make lots of good friends. Because they’re gonna go through all the same crazy stuff that you are.
RESPONSE: Don’t panic. It’s going to be okay.
INTERVIEWER (voice over): So that’s it for puberty. Join us next time when we discuss the human reproductive system on Things We’d Rather Not Talk About.