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Middle Childhood Physical Development

This document summarizes physical, motor, health, and stress-related developments that occur during middle childhood between the ages of 6-12. Key physical changes include slower growth compared to earlier years, the potential start of puberty, continued skeletal and muscular growth, and further development of vision and hearing. Motor skills become more refined and practiced through playing games and sports. Common illnesses include respiratory and digestive issues while injuries often happen when children exceed their physical limits. Stressors include appearance, health issues, and daily hassles, though developing resilience and supportive family environments can help children cope.

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Middle Childhood Physical Development

This document summarizes physical, motor, health, and stress-related developments that occur during middle childhood between the ages of 6-12. Key physical changes include slower growth compared to earlier years, the potential start of puberty, continued skeletal and muscular growth, and further development of vision and hearing. Motor skills become more refined and practiced through playing games and sports. Common illnesses include respiratory and digestive issues while injuries often happen when children exceed their physical limits. Stressors include appearance, health issues, and daily hassles, though developing resilience and supportive family environments can help children cope.

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PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT: MIDDLE CHILDHOOD

A. HOW THE BODY CHANGES changes are slower and less spectacular; puberty
often begins earlier than adults may think
1. HEIGHT AND WEIGHT
*ECTOMORPH
*MESOMORPH
*Placid Children
*Emotionally disturbed children
(Difference of Growth Depends on: FOOD, EXERCISE, CLIMATE, RACE)
2. SKELETAL AND MISCULAR GROWTH
- girls mature ahead through the childhood
- rapid increase in muscle growth
-heart grows more slowly
*Rheumatic fever causes streptococcal
3. VISION AND HEARING
- binocular vision is well developed
-Eustachian tube narrow tube that equalizers air for air drums
*Myopia near sightedness
*Visual irregularities
4. PERCEPTUAL DEVELOPMENT
- perform numerous sophisticated skills
5. BRAIN DEVELOPMENT slow and steady/structure-elaborates
Robert Totcher brain wave theory that occurs every five years
Left brain numbers, speech and comprehension, etc.
Central brain higher intelligence
Right brain arts, drawing, clay modeling, etc.
6. APPLICATIONS:
a. Exercising Growing Intelligence
b. Noticing and Enhancing Special Strengths
c. Musical Abilities
d. Speech Improvement
Vocabulary building
Pronunciation
Forming sentences
e. Improvement in comprehension
B. MOTOR DEVELOPMENT
1. BASIC SKILLS EXPANDED AND REFINED
2. MOTOR FITNESS ability of an athlete to perform at their sport
Importance:
-allows a child to enter in a group
-practice skills
-physical skills value
-self-entertainment
3. COMPONENTS OF MOTOR FITNESS
a. Coordination
b. Balance
c. Speed
d. Agility

e. Power
4. PLAY
a. Games and Sports
b. Contribution of Games and Sports
5. APPLICATIONS
a. Physical Fitness
b. Cardiovascular Endurance
c. Improving Large, Muscle, Strength and Endurance
d. Increase Flexibility
C. HEALTH IN MIDDLE CHILDHOOD
1. ILLNESS, INJURIES AND ACCIDENTS
a. Illnesses respiratory and digestive upset are the most frequent
types
i.
Acute illness sudden onset and ends quickly; develop from
virus, cold, gastrointestinal
ii.
Chronic illness gradual onset and long duration (asthma)
iii.
Sickle-cell disease
b. Injuries occurs when children exceed their development limits
c. Accidents motor vehicle, drowning (boys)
- fires and explosions (girls)
2. DEATH
-children vary in understanding
-experience stages of grief
-reaction to their grief
a. Understanding Death
b. Stages of Grief
i.
Stage of Protest
ii.
Stage of Pain
iii.
Stage of Hope
c. Common Reactions to Grief
d. Precursors for Undereating Behaviors
i.
Anorexia Nervosa
ii.
Bulimia Nervosa
FACTORS:
Obsession with thinness
Negative body image
Low self-esteem and depression
Early dieting
Parental pressure and parental relationship
e. Obesity excessive accumulation of body that results from the
storage of excess food energy (calories) in the bodys fat cells
3 major risk factors/triple threat:
i.
Gender
ii.
Ethnicity
iii.
Poverty
Causes of Obesity:
i.
Heredity
ii.
Environment

Application:
i.
Helping Obese Children
ii.
Family Factors
iii.
Exercise Programs
iv.
School Prevention Programs
D. STRESS
1. COMMON CHILDHOOED STRESSORS
a. Appearance
b. Health
c. Little things
2. Daily Hassles
3. Stress and Illness
4. Applications
i.
Hans Selyes advise to cope with stress
They can remove stressors
They can refuse to allow neutral situation to become
stressor
Children can deal directly with the stress
Children can find ways of relaxing to ease the tension of
stress
ii.
Family Variables
iii.
Controlling the Environment
iv.
Developing Resiliency
Factors influencing childrens susceptibility to stress
Family harmony
Close attachments
Parental caregiving style
Availability of substitute caregiver
Separation
Number and spacing of children in the family
Parental psychopathology
poverty

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