These individual variations in timing—along with hereditary factors—are largely responsible for the wide variations in size among children the same age. Height differences among children in a typical elementary school classroom can range from 4 to 5 inches. Particularly in junior high school, girls are often taller than their male classmates, but within a year or two, boys catch up and usually surpass their female classmates.
A number of other factors—so-called environmental influences—can affect physical development as well. Nutrition is important to normal growth processes. A child's need for calories rises during times of rapid growth, gradually increasing as she moves through middle childhood into puberty.
However, if the calories consumed exceed those expended, a child may develop a weight problem. Some parents worry that their child is not eating enough. Even with what seems to be relatively low food intake, however, children can grow at normal rates. If your school-age child is a picky eater , do not worry that this frustrating behavior is impairing her growth.
These fluctuating eating habits may be due to normal, slow-growth periods or simply uniquely personal, unpredictable preferences or distastes for certain foods. As long as a child is gaining weight appropriately 4 to 7 pounds per year and is eating a healthy variety of foods, his nutritional needs are being met. Those who spend their free time watching TV, playing video games, or engaging in other stationary activities rather than playing outdoors may have impaired bone growth.
However, there is no evidence that a very strenuous exercise program will help your child grow faster or bigger. Running marathons, for example, will not stimulate physical growth. There are many opportunities during this time of life for you to talk to your child about what she's experiencing. You should emphasize that these changes are part of the natural process of growing into adulthood, stimulated by hormones chemicals that are produced within the body.
Keep track of your child's bodily changes, while fully respecting privacy. As the age ranges above indicate, there are wide variations of "normal" in the time when puberty begins. Remind your child that while her friends will grow at different rates, they will eventually catch up with one another.
You may be trying to access this site from a secured browser on the server. Please enable scripts and reload this page. Turn on more accessible mode. Turn off more accessible mode. Skip Ribbon Commands. Skip to main content. Because of this, girls are often taller than boys at the end of middle childhood.
Children in middle childhood tend to slim down and gain muscle strength and lung capacity making it possible to engage in strenuous physical activity for long periods of time. The brain reaches its adult size at about age 7. That is not to say, however, that the brain is fully developed by age 7. The brain continues to develop for many years after it has attained its adult size.
The school-aged child is better able to plan, coordinate activity using both left and right hemispheres of the brain, and to control emotional outbursts. Paying attention is also improved as the prefrontal cortex matures. During middle childhood, physical growth slows down. One result of the slower rate of growth is an improvement in motor skills.
Children of this age tend to sharpen their abilities to perform both gross motor skills such as riding a bike and fine motor skills such as cutting their fingernails. Figure 1. A toothless smile is typical of middle childhood. Deciduous teeth, commonly known as milk teeth, baby teeth, primary teeth, and temporary teeth, are the first set of teeth in the growth development of humans.
In general, children lose the teeth in the middle of the mouth first and then lose the teeth next to those in sequence over the 6-year span. By age 12, generally all of the teeth are permanent teeth, however, it is not extremely rare for one or more primary teeth to be retained beyond this age, sometimes well into adulthood, often because the secondary tooth fails to develop. Nearly 20 percent of school-aged American children are obese. This is true in part because of the introduction of a steady diet of television and other sedentary activities.
In addition, we have come to emphasize high fat, fast foods as a culture. School lunches must meet the applicable recommendations of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans.
Regulations also state that school lunches must provide one-third of the recommended dietary allowances of protein, Vitamin A, Vitamin C, iron, calcium, and calories. However, local school food authorities may make decisions about which specific foods to serve and how they are prepared. Many children in the United States buy their lunches in the school cafeteria, so it might be worthwhile to look at the nutritional content of school lunches.
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