Physical and Motor

Development
 -Potbelly tightens due to the development of
abdominal muscles.

-Trunks, arms and legs grow longer but the head

is relatively large.

- Most boys this age, is a little taller and heavier

and has more muscle per pound of body weight,
whereas most girls has more fatty tissues,

- Both boys and girls typically grow 2-3 inches a

year and gain 4-6 pounds.
 - muscular and skeletal growth progresses,
cartilage turns to bones at a faster rate that
before and bones become harder and stronger,
giving the child a firm shape and protecting the
internal organs

- Wide range of motor skills develop; increased

capacities of the respiratory and circulatory
systems build physical stamina.
 Nutrition and Oral Health
- Preschoolers eat less in proportion to their size
than infants do.

- Children vary in their ability to recognize their

internal cues of hunger and fullness, and parents’
eating habits have an influence.

- Most 3 year-olds will eat only until they are full

while 5 year old tend to eat more when larger
portion is put in front of them.
- lean meat and dairy foods should remain in the
diet to provide protein, iron and calcium.

Obesity
Obesity
• Hereditary
• it also depends on fat intake and
exercise.
• limited access to healthy affordable
foods.
• television and media.
- By age 3, all the primary teeth are in place. The
permanent teeth which will begin to appear at
about age 6, are developing.

Sleep Patterns and Problems

- Young children usually sleep more deeply at
night than they will later in life.

- Children past infancy should not be put to bed

by feeding and rocking.
- About 30 to 40 percent of children in their first
four years engage in bedtime struggles lasting
more than an hour and wake their parents
frequently at night.

- Walking and talking during sleep are fairly

common in early childhood.

- Nightmare are sleep terrors are cause by

accidental activation of the brains’ motor control
system.
Nightmare
and Sleep Terr