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Characteristics of 9 and 10 year olds
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Individual variation in skills and personality
Tools used and handled appropriately
Handwriting now a tool
Drawings often detailed
Does complete job of dressing.
Boys and girls interested in doing own hair, but majority doesn’t do it completely until age 10 and then only if it is uncomplicated
Rhymes words
Finished products in carpentry and cooking
Uses table utensils well; uses table manners
Language now used more as a tool, less for its own sake
May return to many incorrect grammatical uses
Writes out lists and plans
Uses language to express subtle and refined emotions; disgust; self-criticism
Considerable verbal criticism of parents’ actions
Extended use of code language
Emergence of independent critical thinking
Increasingly realistic conception of the world
Becoming more independent, self-sufficient, dependable
Busies self with own concerns; may prefer work to play
Interested in many activities
At times puts on an "I don’t care" attitude at others
Anxious to please and to be liked
Self-conscious about own activities, body, home, behavior of parents and siblings
Self-critical, may demand too much of self
Sensitive and embarrassed by correction
Beginning to have crushes on others
Beginning to become peer-oriented rather than parent-oriented; may have conflicts between values of adults and peers
Few fears, but worries a great deal about mistakes he has made, failing in studies, doing wrong thing, not measuring up to other children
Complains a great deal, but forgets complaints quickly
Involvement with mother prevalent at 8 years has disappeared
Stronger tendency to have special friend
Great interest in team games and in learning to perform skillfully
SOURCE: Susan H. Turben, Ph.D. Beachwood, OH
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