Six - eight-year-olds seem to settle down to a steadier pace of growing and learning and are interested in real life tasks and activities.
Your child has now developed permanent teeth. He enjoys testing muscle strength and skills and has a good sense of balance. He can also begin to understand time and the days of the week. He is also able to learn difference between left and right
Encourage reading and writing by allowing children to write stories and create music. Also encourage your child to build models and make crafts. Help your child children explore the world they live in, by taking field trips to museums.
At this stage, children have longer attention spans. Being with friends becomes increasingly important. You will find that girls want to play more with girls and boys with boys. They may have a best friend and an enemy.
Children can find criticism or failure difficult to handle and view things as right or wrong with very little middle ground, be patient with them.
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