Children between the ages of 6 and 12 are in the age period normally referred to as middle childhood. As an age group, 6 to 12 year olds are less clearly set separated than infants, adolescents. Middle Childhood is the time of life that starts when youngsters enter school and keeps going until they reach adolescence.
The cognitive changes simply depicted youngsters as an extended perspective of their social world and of themselves, providing the foundation for important social and emotional changes that also start in these years. Along with their broadened exposure to adults and peers outside the family, children of these ages are typically given more opportunity, more responsibilities, and more rights. This period is therefore marked by tensions …show more content…
Following behavioral changes occur in middle childhood:
EMOTIONAL UNDERSTANDING, EXPRESSION AND CONTROL
During middle childhood, children make great steps regarding their ability to recognize emotions in themselves as well as other people, control their own emotions, and communicate about emotions, both expressively and with language.
At this time, most children started making sense of recognizing emotional behaviors present in interpersonal situations. As soon as they start to notice other people's emotional behaviors (e.g. seeing someone cry and laugh at the same time), they begin to appreciate the reality of mixed and complex emotions. They also start to adapt these emotions. If they see a person laughing, they also try to laugh like that person. If a person is sad and she is in a bad mood then a child of middle age also try to adapt that mood or face expression when a child will be in a bad mood.
SCHOOL
When you entered your child in a school your child is more independent than before. During the middle childhood years, parents have usually two important tasks to perform related to their
The cognitive changes simply depicted youngsters as an extended perspective of their social world and of themselves, providing the foundation for important social and emotional changes that also start in these years. Along with their broadened exposure to adults and peers outside the family, children of these ages are typically given more opportunity, more responsibilities, and more rights. This period is therefore marked by tensions …show more content…
Following behavioral changes occur in middle childhood:
EMOTIONAL UNDERSTANDING, EXPRESSION AND CONTROL
During middle childhood, children make great steps regarding their ability to recognize emotions in themselves as well as other people, control their own emotions, and communicate about emotions, both expressively and with language.
At this time, most children started making sense of recognizing emotional behaviors present in interpersonal situations. As soon as they start to notice other people's emotional behaviors (e.g. seeing someone cry and laugh at the same time), they begin to appreciate the reality of mixed and complex emotions. They also start to adapt these emotions. If they see a person laughing, they also try to laugh like that person. If a person is sad and she is in a bad mood then a child of middle age also try to adapt that mood or face expression when a child will be in a bad mood.
SCHOOL
When you entered your child in a school your child is more independent than before. During the middle childhood years, parents have usually two important tasks to perform related to their