Child psychology - Late Childhood

Characteristics of late childhood:

Late childhood extends from 6 years to 12 years. By 12, the child becomes sexually mature. For most young children, there is a major change in the pattern of their lives. While adjusting to the new demands and expectations, most children are in a state of disequilibrium. They are emotionally disturbed. Many changes take place in attitudes, values and behavior. While the last year or two, marked corporal changes take place. The corporal changes at the end of this stage originate a disequilibrium resulting in the disturbance of accustomed life style..

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It is a troublesome age by which the children are no longer willing to do what they are told to do. Older children, especially boys, are careless about their clothes and other material possessions. Such an age is called as the sloppy age. Again it is regarded as a quarrelsome age because we can see the boy child and girl child often indulged in mini quarrels.

It is at this stage that the children fetch the rudiments of knowledge that are thought about as indispensable for thriving adjustment to adult life.

Again there is a gang spirit in which the major concern is the acceptance by the age-mates in a gang. There is a team spirit in play activities and creative works.

Physical increase gives a predictable future in body buildings with reference to weight and height. corporal increase in sex matters, come to be more pronounced. Puberty increase spurt a minuscule later for boys than girls.

Skills industrialized are as follows:

i) Play skills

ii) School skills

iii) Self help skills

iv) public help skills

v) Hand skills

vi) Speech skills

vii) Pronunciation skills

viii) Vocabulary skills

ix) condition maintenance skills

Other predominant behaviors are as follows:

i) Unpleasant emotions are socially unacceptable

ii) Expression of anger in moodiness

iii) Heightened emotional expressions

iv) learning to curb external emotional expressions

v) Boys have more wide peer groups than girls

vi) Not satisfied with associates

vii) Aim for socio-metric status in age-mates

viii) Desire for leadership in peers

ix) Constructive play activities

x) Exploring and collecting things

Child psychology - Late Childhood

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