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Communication and Your 6- to 12-Year-Old
Communicating with a child is one of the most pleasurable and rewarding experiences for both parent and child. Children ...
Source: The Nemours Foundation
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Growth and Development, Ages 9-12
Human development is a lifelong process of physical, behavioral, cognitive, and emotional growth and change. In the ...
Source: Advocates For Youth
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Emotional Intelligence
Emotion has been studied from a variety of theoretical frameworks (e.g., Fox, 1994). Psychoanalytic theorists have ...
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Perspective Taking and Theory of Mind at Different Grade Levels
The table below lists the development trends on perspective taking and theory of mind for children from kindergarten to ...
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Making Friends in Middle School
Making good grades probably tops your list of goals for your middle school student, but making friends is also ...
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Emotional Development Issues in Middle School
As middle grades educators our goal regarding emotional development should be to help our students find their way ...
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Family Assessment: At the Interface of Nature and Nurture Stands the Family
A child's environment"A family is to a child as water is to a fish."The 'nurturing system' that is the family ...
Source: NYU Child Study Center
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Anxiety Checklist for Parents
Some of the following symptoms are typical of children who may have an anxiety disorder. If your answer to several ...
Source: NYU Child Study Center
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How Do Children See Race?
Johnny Lee, a white man who was a former imperial wizard and a founder and recruiter for the Ku Klux Klan Youth Corps, ...
Source: Hand in Hand
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Social Graces: What to Expect in 3rd Grade
By third grade, children are more confident in settings away from their parents. Even though he's more independent, ...
Source: Education.com
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Social Graces: What to Expect in 4th Grade
When it comes to a well-rounded fourth grader, good manners rank up there with mastering cursive writing. And it's not ...
Source: Education.com
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Childhood Emotional Development
In early childhood, children learn that emotions represent their own reactions to situations and events and that ...
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Middle Childhood (9-11 years old)
Developmental MilestonesYour child’s growing independence from the family and interest in friends might be ...
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Your 3rd Grader's Social Life
It's easy to see how third grade spells new social challenges: smack-dab in the middle of elementary school, third...
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Your 4th Grader's Social Life
For most kids, the transition to fourth grade is like merging into a social fast lane. Gone are the comforts of early...
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Gender Differences: 4th Grade
Picture a fourth grader completely immersed in a book or scribbling in a journal. Was the bookworm you imagined male or...
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According to the School Psychologist: 4th Grade
Expert advice from a school psychologist on how parents can better understand their fourth grader.
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Talking Safety
When your child is in upper grade school you must actively help him learn how to gauge what's safe. He's no longer "a...
Source: Education.com
