Dr. Donna Adams-Pickett is a board certified Obstetrician/Gynecologist and CEO/owner of Augusta Women’s Health & Wellness Center, a comprehensive, innovative center for women’s health care in central Georgia.
Dr. Adams-Pickett is the author of two puberty primers: Big Sis’ Guide to Growing Up and Buddy’s Big Guy Guidebook. Both books are light-hearted, easy to read and feature main characters of color. Widely utilized by pediatricians and educators, Big Sis’s Guide to Growing Up and Buddy’s Big Guy Guidebook helps remove the stigma and mystery of the physical changes that come with adolescence.
Dr. Adams-Pickett received her undergraduate degree at Howard University in Washington D.C. She went on to complete a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Microbiology and Immunology from the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta and completed postdoctoral Fellowship training at the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. She earned a Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) from Emory University and completed her internship and residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta.
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Dr. Adams-Pickett has over 25 years of work in the science and health care fields but considers her experiences as a wife and mother of two as the most comprehensive and informative contributors to her career.
Some guidelines for parents as their children enter puberty:
The topic of puberty is one that makes most parents uncomfortable. Children sense this unease, and associate the physical changes of growing up as something bad. As a result, children will not utilize their parents as an information source. They will turn to their peers who, in general, are full of misinformation. A common mistake of most parents is to sit down after the child has demonstrated signs of puberty and have one big talk.
By then, it is usually too late and the child is attempting to absorb a large amount of information in one setting. Also, having ONE momentous conversation adds to the big deal, serious nature of the subject which adds to the negative undertones associated with the topic.
The conversation should begin when our children are older toddlers. Begin by teaching children the proper name for their anatomical parts. As they age, each year incorporate information about growing up in your daily conversations, for example, as you purchase deodorant, talk about how one day they will need to purchase and use their own.
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