Preadolescents generally prefer certain brands, and are a heavily targeted market of many advertisers. Their tendency to buy brand-name items may be due to a desire to fit in, although the desire is not as strong as it is with teenagers. Some scholars suggest that pre-adolescents ... reported frequent encounters with sexual material in the media, valued the information received from it, and used it as a learning resource ... and evaluated such content through what they perceived to be sexual morality. However, other research has suggested that sexual media influences on preadolescent and adolescent sexual behavior is minimal. Freud
Freud called this stage the latency period to indicate that sexual feelings and interest went underground. Erik H. Erikson noted that latency period children in middle childhood can then direct more of their energy into asexual pursuits such as school, athletics, and same-sex friendships. Nevertheless, recent research contradicts these notions—suggesting that sexual development, interest, and behavior among latent period children does not cease. Instead, the apparent lack of sexual interest is due to children not sharing their sexual interests/emotions with adults. See also
Precocious puberty

References
Further reading
 The dictionary definition of Wikisaurus:preteen at Wiktionary
Myers, James. "Tweens and cool", Admap, March 2004. G. Berry Brazelton, Heart Start: The Emotional Foundations of School Readiness (Arlington 1992)
Fibrofolliculomas are 2 to 4 mm in diameter, dome-shaped, yellowish or skin-colored papules usually located on the head, neck, and upper trunk. They are characteristically seen in Birt–Hogg–Dubé syndrome. : 674

See also
List of cutaneous conditions
List of cutaneous neoplasms associated with systemic syndromes
Trichodiscoma


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