A school nurse is teaching a health class for 5th grade children.The nurse plans to include which statement to best describe growth in the early school-age period?

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During the school-age developmental period,boys are approximately 1 inch taller and 2 pounds heavier than girls.Puberty occurs 1 1/2 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 in white girls.Physical growth is slow and steady during the school-age years.

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