Height and weight - Answers Children grow about 2-3 inches per year between ages 6 and 11 and
approximately double their weight during that period. Girls retain more fatty tissue. African American
boys tend to grow faster than white children.
Less than 10% of cals - Answers should come from saturated fat.
Nutrition - Answers schoolchildren need, on average, 2,400 calories a day.
Sleep - Answers 10 hours at age 9, 9 hours at age 13
Sleep problems - Answers resistance to going to bed, insomnia, and daytime sleepiness are common.
They make their own bedtimes, and have TV's in their bedrooms.
Recess-Time Play - Answers Informal and spontaneously organized. Boys play more physically active
games. Girls favor games that include verbal expression or counting aloud
Rough-and-tumble play - Answers Wrestling, kicking, tumbling, grappling, and chasing. Seems to be
universal.
Rough and Tumble adaptive benefits - Answers Hones skeletal and muscle development, offers safe
practice for hunting and fighting skills, and channels aggression and competition.
Sports - Answers 38.5% participate in organized sports. Improves motor skills, weight control, lower
blood pressure, improved cardiovascular functioning, and enhanced self-esteem and well-being.
Obesity in children has become - Answers a major health issue worldwide. Boys are more likely to be
overweight than girls.
Body image - Answers how one believes one looks. Playing with physically unrealistic dolls, such as
barbie, may be an influence in that direction.
Causes of obesity - Answers Inherited tendency aggravated by too little exercise and too much or the
wrong kinds of foods. Eating out. Inactivity.
Childhood obesity concerns - Answers Risk for behavioral problems, depression and low self-esteem,
medical problems (HBP, High Cholesterol, High insulin levels) Childhood diabetes.
Overweight children often - Answers Suffer emotionally and may compensate by indulging with treats,
making their physical and social problems even worse. Fall behind other classmates.
Hypertension - Answers Chronically high blood pressure.
Preventing weight gain is - Answers easier, less costly, and more effective than treating obesity.
Children should only get about - Answers 30 percent of their total calories from fat and less than 10
percent of the total from saturated fat.
, Effective weight-management programs should include - Answers efforts of parents, schools, physicians,
communities, and the larger culture.
Acute medical conditions - Answers occasional short-term conditions, such as infections and warts.
Common.
Chronic medical conditions - Answers Physical, developmental, behavioral, or emotional conditions that
persist for 3 months or more.
Asthma - Answers A chronic Respiratory disease, apparently allergy-based and characterized by sudden
attacks of coughing, wheezing, and difficulty breathing.
Diabetes - Answers One of the most common diseases in school-aged children. High levels of glucose ni
the blood as a result of defective insulin production, ineffective insulin action, or both.
Symptoms of diabetes - Answers Thirst, urination, hunger, weightloss, blurred vision, fatigue.
Accidental injuries - Answers Leading cause of death among school-aged U.S. children. (Brain injuries
from bike accidents) 88% can be prevented.
concrete operations - Answers 3rd stage of piagets cognitive development (ages 7-12) during which
children develop logical but not abstract thought.
Categorization includes - Answers abilities as seriation, transitive inference, and class inclusion. Improve
gradually between eraly and middle childhood.
Seriation - Answers When they can arrange objects in a series according to one or more dimensions
(weight-lightest heaviest) (Color-Lightest darkest)
Transitive inference - Answers ability to infer a relationship between 2 objects from the relationship
between each of them and a 3rd object (a>b and b>c, then a>c)
Class inclusion - Answers ability to see the relationship between a while and its parts.
Inductive reasoning - Answers Type of logical reasoning that moves from particular observations about
members of a class to a general conclusion about that class
Deductive reasoning - Answers Type of logical reasoning that moves from a general premise about a
class to a conclusion about a particular member or members of the class.
Children in the stage of concrete operations - Answers can work out the answers in their heads; they do
not have to measure of weigh the objects.
Identity - Answers Substance retains nature even when it looks different
Reversibility - Answers Reversing action will cause substance to revert to former appearance.
Decentering - Answers Focus on more than 1 feature at a time.