Developmental Issues for Six to Eight Year Olds
Six to eight year olds confuse fantasy and reality; they understand perspective, point of view, seriation, temporal reasoning, spatial relations, symbols and signs and literacy as a way of reading and writing.
They are social, helpful and demonstrate that they understand attachment, a sense of security and loss, separation, and numbers and letters.
They are bilateral, symmetrical movers and shakers.
They play games, follow rules and directions, shift attention easily, pay attention, seek approval, show a range of emotions and are beginning to engage in abstract reversible thinking.
They add, subtract, and multiply.
They save face by "making up stories",.
They show distrust when angry or resentful.
They are not miniature adults, but role play and act out adult behaviors.
A "list" is probably not as valuable as a discussion and dialogue and observation of children. There are hundreds of child development texts which can show you the stages of social, emotional, motoric, language, communication, self-help, intellectual, and other skills children have or which are emerging.
Observe and record child behaviors and actions. That's the way to know.
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