During childhood boys and girls are: Select one: a. roughly the same size. b. dramatically different in size. c. identical in motor ability development. d. dramatically different in motor abilities.
Research has shown that boys and girls usually are roughly the same size during childhood which is usually from 3 to 9 years old. During this time, there is mostly same physical growth size and physical size. However girls tend to outgrow boys from periods after these ages, late childhood and periods of adolescence. This is because girls mature earlier and before boys.
