MIddle Childhood

  • Growing

    Child growing from birth to 12Once children get to the school age they begin to grow both height and weight wise. This is also the only time when girls will be taller than boy (on average). This is when children start losing their baby weight.
  • Industry vs Inferiority stage

    Indusrty vs InferiorityFrom the age of 6 to the age of 12, middle age children go thorugh a stage where they have to meet the expectations of their parents, freidns, and school/activites.
  • Fine motor skills

    fine motor skills in school age childrenFrom ages 6 to 8 children's fine motor skills increase due to the fact that myelin increases in the brain.
  • Cognitive Development

    concrete operational stageThis is the part in a childs life, around 7 tp 12 years of age, where cognative development starts. This is when they begin to think more logically.
  • Friendship Based on Closeness

    Friendship Based on Closeness
    This stage occurs at age 11 to 15 when children start basing their friendships on their psychological closeness to one another.
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