Before my daughter was old enough, I saw a puberty education video from

August 8, 2017 3:42 PM

Before my daughter was old enough, I saw a puberty education video from Norway or Finland National Health Services ? It was an educational cartoon, I think for schools , with funny/goofy/70's science'ish graphics (mostly black background) of a boy and a girl separately in a lab and test tubes and the voice over of a "scientist" going over the stages with a dry delivery of the whole process of the changes to expect - maybe it was 25 minutes . I admired the mix of information and humor; would like to find it as it seemed a solid basis for starting a conversation .
posted by epjr to Education (8 answers total)

related. this book has un-intimidating artwork, and a really smooth, practical tone.
posted by j_curiouser at 3:48 PM on August 8, 2017

Best answer: WARNING TRIGGER : THESE ARE CARTOONS BUT ARE PUBERTY VIDEOS and strange ouch , I found it , and it is terrifying

then there is this

Thanks
posted by epjr at 4:22 PM on August 8, 2017 [4 favorites]

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posted by Countess Elena at 5:12 PM on August 8, 2017 [1 favorite]

what
posted by roll truck roll at 5:45 PM on August 8, 2017 [1 favorite]

Uh, I'm, uh, gonna go out on a limb here and suggest maybe you find something else to introduce puberty to your daughter? Because holy shit that was horrifying.

Gonna go bleach my eyeballs now
posted by telepanda at 8:08 PM on August 8, 2017 [6 favorites]

I think that of all the nationalities which are likely to make videos suitable for "a solid basis for starting a conversation" - those from Norway are probably for those at the absolute least squeamish end of the scale. Here is another example (extremely NSFW).
posted by rongorongo at 3:21 AM on August 9, 2017

Response by poster: Yeah it is strange for another reason .

It seems these videos are from the same source - but the first one seems clipped/fast in a way that makes it scary and the second is kind of what I remembered/liked but not so sparse and artistic - it was something in between.

But yeah moving on . . .
posted by epjr at 8:17 AM on August 9, 2017

Best answer: When you said it was of Norwegian origin it made me think immediately of this terrific informational video that my sister/b-i-l shared with their daughter.

If the other animated one is a little too freaky, try this one instead?
posted by mcbeth at 7:40 AM on August 10, 2017 [1 favorite]