Puberty, which constitutes the initial phase of adolescence, is a time in which parents are called to be particularly attentive to the Christian education of their children. This is a time of self-discovery and of one’s own inner world, the time of generous plans, the time when the felling of love awakens, with the biological impulses of sexuality, the time of the desire to be together, the time of particularly intense joy connected with the exhilarating discovery of life. But often it is also the age of deeper questioning, of anguish or even frustrating searching, of a mistrust, of others and dangerous introspection, and the age sometimes of the first experiences of set backs and of disappointments.