A school nurse is teaching a health class for fifth grade children. The nurse plans to include which statement to best describe growth in the early school-age period?
a. Boys grow faster than girls do until around age 10.
b. Puberty occurs earlier in boys than in girls.
c. Puberty occurs at the same age for all races and ethnicities.
d. It is a period of rapid physical growth.
A
During the school-age developmental period, boys are approximately 1 inch taller and 2 pounds heavier than girls. Puberty occurs 1.5 to 2 years later in boys, which is developmentally later than puberty in girls (not unusual in 9- or 10-year-old girls). Puberty occurs approximately 1 year earlier in African-American girls than white girls. Physical growth is slow and steady during the school-age years.
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