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Child Development - The 10 Year Old

10 year-olds *

Physical

  • large muscles are developing quickly
  • desperately needs outdoor time and physical challenge
  • often writes more sloppily than at nine
  • snacks and rest periods benefit their rapidly growing bodies

Social-Emotional

  • generally content; enjoy family, peers, and teachers
  • friendly, generally happy; quick to anger and quick to forgive
  • works very well in groups; enjoys clubs, activities, and team sports
  • usually truthful; developing more mature sense of right and wrong
  • highly sensitive to and able to resolve questions of fairness and other social situations
  • able to enjoy cooperative and competitive activities
  • quite concerned with friendship and fairness issue
  • eager to reach out to others
  • enjoy being noticed and rewarded for their efforts

Language

  • listens well
  • reads voraciously
  • expressive and talkative; likes to explain things

Cognitive

  • very good at memorizing facts
  • increasingly able to think abstractly; enjoys rules and logic; good at solving problems
  • enjoys collecting, classifying, and organizing
  • can concentrate for long periods
  • takes pride in school work
  • enjoys choral reading, singing, poetry and plays

* Yardsticks , by Chip Wood, 3rd Edition.