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
- 12 Physical Development of Pre-schoolers
- 13 Cognitive Development of Pre-schoolers
- 14 Social and Emotional Development of Pre-schoolers
- Part 6 Middle Childhood
- Part 7 Adolescence
- Part 8 Studying Human Development
- Glossary
- References
- Index
- STUDENT FEEDBACK FORM
12 - Physical Development of Pre-schoolers
from Part 5 - The Pre-school Years
- 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
- 12 Physical Development of Pre-schoolers
- 13 Cognitive Development of Pre-schoolers
- 14 Social and Emotional Development of Pre-schoolers
- Part 6 Middle Childhood
- Part 7 Adolescence
- Part 8 Studying Human Development
- Glossary
- References
- Index
- STUDENT FEEDBACK FORM
Summary
‘…And If It Makes Me Larger …’
Soon her eyes fell on a little ebony box lying under the table: she opened it, and found in it a very small cake, on which was lying a card with the words EAT ME printed beautifully on it in large letters. ‘I'll eat’, said Alice, ‘and if it makes me larger, I can reach the key, and if it makes me smaller, I can creep under the door, so either way I'll get into the garden, and I don't care which happens!
Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in WonderlandKEY TERMS AND CONCEPTS
Enuresis
Primary enuresis
Secondary enuresis
ADHD
clumsiness
Introduction
The 4-year-old pre-schooler is barely recognisable from the 2-year-old toddler who gleefully exercised new-found physical abilities on hapless parents or who could not easily be reasoned with when denied a brightly coloured toy that had caught his or her eye.
Four-year-olds are past the naming stage of asking ‘What's that?’ (‘Wazzat?’) and are now curious to know ‘Why?’. When pre-schooler Matthew sits in the kitchen watching his father prepare dinner the ‘whys’ are apt to fly thick and fast: ‘Why do you put salt in the soup, Dad?’; ‘Why is pepper hot?’; ‘Why do you chop the leaves off celery?’; and on and on it goes.
At 4 years of age, children can answer their parents' questions clearly. Their attention span is increasing and cooperative play with other children becomes a little easier.
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- Child, Adolescent and Family Development , pp. 249 - 263Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2002