Program #11 - Playmates
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content: National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Medical Sciences
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content: National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Medical Sciences
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content: Medical Sciences Film Collection
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content: Medical Sciences Film Collection / Series 3: Public Health and Nursing Films / At Home With Your Child (series)
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content: Reel OF 222.42
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content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: The three to five-year-old is featured. He will grow taller rapidly and become more slender. His jaw and facial bones will grow. He should be introduced to the dentist. By five years of age he plays with other children, dresses and undresses himself, is toilet-trained, feeds himself, and has a longer attention span. He is very attached to his mother and doesn't like her to leave him; assure him she will come back.  It's hard for him to accept a new baby, but let him help in the preparation for it. After four years, the appetite improves and he expresses likes and dislikes of food. Emphasize that dessert comes at the end of the meal and is not the meal. Measles is the most serious illness without an immunization.  Recommends gamma globulin if exposed to measles.