Middle Childhood Children in
Mexico
ANDREA, JUAN, DEYANIRA, AND MADISON
CHILD DEVELOPMENT
DR. VILLANUEVA
Mexico in General
 Capital- Mexico City
 Birth rate: 19.39
 Size- Area of 761,606
square miles
 Population- 115,296,767
 Currency- Pesos
 Language- Spanish
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Indigenous languages
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Yukatek Maya and Zapotec
 The literacy rate in the
country is 97%.
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births/1,000 population
Life expectancy: 76.66
years
–male: 73.84 years
–female: 79.63 years
Infant mortality rate:
16.77 deaths/1,000 live
births
0-14 years: 27.8%
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male 16,329,415
female 15,648,127
A Day in the Life……
 http://www.timeforkids.com/des
tination/mexico/day-in-life
 School: Large schools hold two
shifts—one group of children
attends in the morning, and one
attends in the afternoon. The
school year typically runs from
the beginning of September
through the end of June.
 Play: Lotería. Soccer is the top
sport. Sports are important.
 Family: Many homes in Mexico
include not just parents and
children but grandparents, aunts,
uncles, cousins or other family
members.
Physical Domain
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Success in school
Fine & Gross motor
Skills
Food & Nutrition in
Mexico
Cognitive Domain
 Concrete Operational
Stage
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Increase their
understanding in other
people’s perspectives
 Stages of Moral
Development
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Discard the idea that there
should be an absolute
standard of right and
wrong
 Conservation
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7-8 Conservation of
substance
9-10 Conservation of
weight
12 Conservation of volume
 Classification
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Able to tell apart class
inclusion
Social Domain
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