Archives for April 2007
The Maturing Girl
Girls begin to grow and mature about a year or two earlier than boys. This means that they will start to show changes at about eleven or twelve years of age. And, as with boys, girls who live in tropical climates tend to start a year or two earlier than those who live in cooler [...]
The Boy Begin to Mature
The period when boys and girls begin to mature is called puberty, and the child who is maturing is called an adolescent. Puberty is one of the most difficult and trying times for children. Physical growth often occurs more rapidly than the growth and development of the mind. As a result, the child may appear [...]
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Height and Weight
Some youngsters are tall for their age; others are short. Some are heavy; others are light. We can’t always tell too much about how tall or short or how light or heavy someone’s going to be eventually, because we all change a lot as we grow. Many children are short when they are very young, [...]
How a Child Grows
Many slow starters catch up and may even pass the quick starters.
Normal children vary greatly in the way they grow, both in their bodies and their minds. Some children are quick starters and grow tall at a very early age, and some children begin to read and write and to learn arithmetic much sooner [...]
Inheritence
Inheritance means that we get certain of our traits, our physical appearance, and some of our mental abilities from our parents. We say that these things are passed on to us from our mother and father through their genes. Of course, we can’t always tell specifically what we inherited from one parent or the other, [...]
The Newborn Child Arrives
The baby’s footprints are taken and are placed on a special chart that already has the mother’s fingerprint on it. This makes sure that the baby doesn’t get mixed up with another newborn child.
Girls and boys who are born in hospitals today are taken care of as if they were precious jewels. After holding [...]