The appearance of voice in a person occurs through several organs: vocal cords, larynx, nasopharynx, thorax, lungs. Air, bursting from the lungs, makes the vocal cords vibrate, and the nasopharynx and the thorax are resonators. The height of the sound depends on the thickness and length of the vocal cords - the larger and thicker, the lower the sound. In children, the larynx is small, the vocal folds are small, so the children's voice is high and sonorous.
When and why do boys break their voices?
At the age of 12-14 years, the boys begin to age changes in the body, under the influence of sex hormones, ligaments begin to grow, thicken and lengthen. At this time, they show signs of breaking voices - it changes from high to low and vice versa. This is what is called the mutation of the voice. Often at this time, a problem arises, but not physiological, but rather psychological: the boy is used to the sound of his high voice, but the adult bass sometimes scares him. But for most boys, the voice mutation is quite a natural process and continues for an average of several months.
What if the voice breaks down?
Parents should know about the three characteristics of teenage voice mutation:
- in the period of breaking, you can not load the vocal cords, because of overstrain in the folds, nodules arise, resulting in a voice becoming hoarse;
- avoid a cold - the mutation can be delayed;
- what kind of voice a teenager will have in adulthood - it is not known: what is inherent in nature, it can not be changed already.
Teenagers are often interested in how to speed up breaking the voice. So, you can not do this because the mutation is a natural physiological process, and it is not worth interfering in nature.
Does the voice of girls break?
The thing is that the vocal folds of girls grow more slowly than boys and at the beginning of puberty they are much shorter for girls. The girls' voice is also breaking, but not as clearly and not as fast as the boys.
This or that timbre of voice is inherent in nature from a person and it is necessary to perceive it as a given. An adolescent will take time to get used to his new voice. Explain to the child that breaking the voice is a kind of the beginning of the way to adulthood. And if the parents take seriously the adolescent during the mutation of his voice, will support him with good advice, then this process will pass the least painful and much faster.