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Objects used repeatedly by a child as bedtime companions |
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repeated urination in clothing or bed |
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Physcial skills that involve large muscles |
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Physcical skills that involve the small muscels and eye hand coordination |
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Combinations of motor skills that permit increasingly complex activities |
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Preference for using a particular hand |
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Action taken to endanger a child involving potential injury to the body |
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Condition showing symptoms of physical abuse of a child |
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Faliure to meet a childs basic needs |
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Sexual activity involving child and older person |
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Nonphysical action that may damage childrens behaviroal, cognitive, physical, emotional functioning |
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Failure to give a child emotional support, love, and affection |
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Which sex is slightly taller at age 3-6? |
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Boys. Girls have more fatty tissue. |
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By how many pounds and inches do children increase a year? |
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What happens to cartilage? |
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It turns to bone as children increase thier activity. Needed to protect thier organs. |
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What does all physical change coincide with? |
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Where are all teeth by age 3? |
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All primary teeth are in place; there are no restrictions in eating habits. Flouride is used to build strength. |
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What is another name for primary teeth? |
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What habit is present among 4 year olds? |
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Thumb sucking. Continued sucking can lead to permenant tooth damage. |
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At what age do permenant teeth appear? |
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Why would a child begin to regulate thier own caloric intake? |
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If thier parents allow them to eat when they are hungry or vise versa. |
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What percentage of children meet dietary guidlines or don't meet them at all? And why? |
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1% meet guidline. 6% don't meet at all. Children eat too much fats adn sugar, and not enough fruits and vergtables, and grains |
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How can a child's daily protien requirement be meet? |
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What do dairy products help build in children? |
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Do 3-4 year olds show negative effects from a low fat diet? |
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No, there were no changes in height, weight, and BMI. |
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Who is more at risk for obestity in today's society? |
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Does obesity have a genetic link? |
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What do children of overweight parent lead to? |
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What do children of overweight parent lead to? |
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When is the best time to treat childhood obesity? |
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Early to middle childhood |
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Under what circumstances to children sleep better? |
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If they have a set bedtime, and a transitional object such as a teddy bear |
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What percentage of 1-4 year olds have bedtime struggles? |
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What are some reasons for bedtime struggles? |
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Sleeping with parents, stress, depressed mother, parents with mixed feelings toward child, parental change of scedual. |
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What percentage of 3-8 year olds have night terrors or nightmares? |
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When a child is awakend abrubtly from deeo sleep in fear, then goes back to sleep and doesnt recall anything. Upsets more parents than children. Occurs within an hour of falling asleep, and disappear around age 6 |
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They happen towards the morning and are vividly recalled by the child. They may be a sign of stress. Repeated themes signal problems that children cannot solve when they are awake |
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What percentage of girls and boys experience enurisis? What percentage have close relatives with the same problem? |
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7% of boys age 5, 3% girls age 5.75% have close relative who also experienced condition. |
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What percentage of the population has a physical disorder in which they are unable to control thier baldder? |
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What is developed or occuring in motor development around ages 3-6? |
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The cortex is more developed. Bones and muscles are stronger. Lung capacity is greater. They can skip. |
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Which sex tends to do better with gross motor skills? |
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Girls. But by age 6, boys can throw and catch better. |
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What percentage of the population is right handed? |
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What advantages do left handed people have? |
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Spatial imaginiation. They are more likely to be gifted |
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What are some disadvantages for lefties? |
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More accidents, allergies, sleep problems, migranes, stutters, dislexia, reading disabilities, behavioral problems, ADD. |
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Is there evidence that shows that right handed and left handed people have different abilities? |
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By what percentage have instances of the flu and pnemonia dropped? |
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What is the disease free survival rate for children under the age of 15? |
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What are most childhood deaths due to? |
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What environmental influences make children less healthy? |
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Parental smoking, stree, poverty |
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On average, how many colds does the 3-5 year old catch per year? |
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What do repeated illnesses help the child to do? |
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Cope with physical distress and understand its causes |
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What do repeated illnesses help the child to do? |
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Cope with physical distress and understand its causes. |
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Due to seatbelts in cars, what percentage of automotive death has declined? |
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More than half of accidents occur where? |
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Day care. 1-5 are from falls |
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Children are less likely to be injured where? |
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At day care verses the home. |
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What percentage of children live with smokers? |
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What does second hand smoke do to a child? |
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Increases risk of contracting illnesses |
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More children die from smoke inhalation than what other cause? |
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What size familes are sick more often? |
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Children in which type of day care tend to be healthier that children who arent in daycare? |
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Which age group is the largest living in poverty? |
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Where do the health probelms in poorer children begin? |
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3million american children are exposed to what? |
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Lead, which can effect development |
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What has happened to the number of abused children from 1986-1993? |
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What has become the leading cause of death among children? |
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Maltreatment. 2000 die, 140-000 serioulsy injured |
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Who is often the murder of a child? |
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What number of abused children are under age of 7; age of 4? |
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Who is more likely to be sexually abused? |
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What type of abuse are boys more exposed too? |
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Emotional neglect and injury |
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Is there racial differences in abuse? |
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