Characteristics Ages 7 and 8
- Controlled aggression is a positive response
- Competitive
- Friendly; still egocentric; worries about friends
- Tricky, teases, wanders
- Normal interest in absolutes: good and bad
- Reads with inflection; likes to be read to
- Counts; adds 1-2 digits; subtracts
- Conserving amounts mentally
- Plays games; forgets or makes up rules
- Unisex play
- Interested in current events
- Family-centered; dependent on external “controls”
- Boasts; brags; estimates own talents
- Bilateral coordination: all extremities
- Increasing strength
- Tense handling of tools
- Increasing interest in differences among classifications of objects
- Asks about “others”
- Social acceptance paramount
- Articulates 45,000 words
- Defines words
- Starts to alphabetize
- Starts to want to write cursively
