Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Trends and issues
- List of Family life-cycles
- List of Figures and Tables
- Note to the Student
- Note to the Instructor
- How to use the CD-ROM
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part 1 The Study of Human Development
- Part 2 Conception and Birth
- Part 3 Infancy
- Part 4 Toddlerhood
- Part 5 The Pre-school Years
- Part 6 Middle Childhood
- 15 Physical Development in Middle Childhood
- 16 Cognitive Development in Middle Childhood
- 17 Social and Emotional Development in Middle Childhood
- Part 7 Adolescence
- Part 8 Studying Human Development
- Glossary
- References
- Index
- STUDENT FEEDBACK FORM
15 - Physical Development in Middle Childhood
from Part 6 - Middle Childhood
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Trends and issues
- List of Family life-cycles
- List of Figures and Tables
- Note to the Student
- Note to the Instructor
- How to use the CD-ROM
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part 1 The Study of Human Development
- Part 2 Conception and Birth
- Part 3 Infancy
- Part 4 Toddlerhood
- Part 5 The Pre-school Years
- Part 6 Middle Childhood
- 15 Physical Development in Middle Childhood
- 16 Cognitive Development in Middle Childhood
- 17 Social and Emotional Development in Middle Childhood
- Part 7 Adolescence
- Part 8 Studying Human Development
- Glossary
- References
- Index
- STUDENT FEEDBACK FORM
Summary
‘If One Only Knew the Right Way to Change Them–’
So she set the little creature down, and felt quite relieved to see it trot away quietly into the wood. ‘If it had grown up,’ she said to herself, ‘it would have made a dreadfully ugly child: but it makes rather a handsome pig, I think.’ And she began thinking over other children she knew who might do well as pigs, and was just saying to herself, 'If one only knew the right way to change them – 'when she was a little startled by seeing the Cheshire Cat sitting on a bough of a tree a few yards off.
Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in WonderlandKEY TERMS AND CONCEPTS
Locomotive activities
Manipulative activities
Norms
Somatotype
Endomorph
Mesomorph
Ectomorph
Obesity
Socialisation
Introduction
Considerable advances have been made in our understanding of the nature of children's physical growth and development thanks to the work of such psychologists as Arnold Gesell (see chapter 6). For all that, developmental psychologists can sympathise with Alice's ruminations about the pig. More particularly, a great deal remains to be understood about the relationship between aspects of children's physical growth and their psychological development in middle childhood. This chapter explores some of these links. Other topics discussed include girls' participation in sport and the relationship between food and physical activity. The Family Life-cycle: 15 focuses on the effect of parental conflict on children.
Gross motor development
The Australian Sports Commission (1997) reports that greater than 30 per cent of Australians do not exercise.
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- Child, Adolescent and Family Development , pp. 313 - 329Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2002