Broken Bones are more common during this time (age).
What is preschool (3-5)?
100
The density of these are twice that of an adult brain.
What are synapses in the frontal cortex?
100
Running, jumping, and skipping are examples.
What are gross motor skills?
100
This promotes optimal health and physical growth in early childhood.
What is eating a nutritious diet?
100
Hot bath water, lead poisoining, air pollution, contaminated water are all considered...
What are Environmental Threats?
200
Children need less of this as they grow older.
What is sleep?
200
This reduces the density of synapses during early childhood.
What is pruning?
200
fastening buttons, using scissors and eating with a spoon are examples of this.
What are fine motor skills?
200
One of the fastest growing nutrition problems in the US.
What is obesity?
200
Most common chronic illness of children.
What is asthma?
300
The most rapid time for physical growth.
What is infancy?
300
One consequence of this is "handedness".
What is lateralization or hemispheres?
300
This gender can jump higher, run faster and throw a ball farther during early childhood.
What are boys?
300
These children are in poorer health.
What is malnourished or not getting enough to eat?
300
Physical harm to a child.
What is abuse?
400
Parasomnias, nightmares and night terrors are examples of this.
What are sleep disturbances?
400
The maturation of this part of the brain is extremely rapid during early childhood.
What is the cerebral cortex?
400
This gender is generally better at fine motor skills such as puzzles, cutting and stringing beads.
What are girls?
400
These have improved the overall healthe of children in the US.
What are vaccinations?
400
Not meeting a child's basic needs and emotional needs.
What is neglect?
500
Another word to describe bed-wetting and is linked to genetic factors and which usually disappear without treatment.
What is enuresis?
500
The process through which neural axons become coated with a fatty sheath of substance and provides insulation which enables more rapid transmission of neural impulses.
What is myelination?
500
The best way to encourage motor development.
What is practice?
500
Most common form of serious injury to young children.
What are motor vehicle crashes.
500
Chemical substances that are harmful to children's developing nervous systems.