By Barbara J. Tinsley
Exploring the ways that young children discover ways to be fit, this booklet examines kid's knowing of overall healthiness, from early formative years via early life, and the way it impacts their habit and genuine actual future health. The learn scrutinizes the ways that mom and dad, different kids, colleges, media, and kid's domestic and local impact kid's well-being, attitudes and behaviour.
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Political, economic, or religious beliefs), parents’ implicit theories about childrearing, and parents’ beliefs and feelings about each child’s potential behavior patterns. Each of these affect and belief systems influences the manner in which parents respond to particular health or safety behaviors of their child (Lees & Tinsley, 1998).
However, children between the ages of 6 and 10 believe, according to Nagy, that a single germ causes all kinds of illness; only at age 11 are children starting to understand that specific germs cause specific diseases. Bibace and Walsh (1980) offer further evidence of concordance between Piagetian states of cognitive development and children’s explanations of illness. According to these researchers, preschool children (aged 2–6 years) explain illness phenomenologically, attributing illness to trees, the sun, or magic.
Results indicated that a very small percentage of the children (15%) accounted for 50% of all of the visits and that approximately one-quarter of the children never visited the health office. Other studies of school health office visits are also of interest. Stamler and Palmer (1971) studied the relation between elementary school-age children’s visits to the health office and ratings of dependence of the children. Although the study had sampling problems, the results indicated that children who frequently visited the health office also had high dependency ratings.