Your Eight Year Old - Lively and Outgoing

Informationen zum Autor Louise Bates Ames, Ph.D. and Carol Chase Haber, M.A. Klappentext The eight-year-old child is an exuberant! outgoing bundle of energy; he meets every challenge head-on! willing to try almost anything. Sometimes parents are amazed at the enthusiasm and excitement with which their child greets the world. However! eight is also a time when the child begins to do a great deal of analyzing and evaluating! finding fault in himself and others--especially Mohter. How do parents help an eight-year-old through this up-and-down age? What should parents expect in their relationships with the child and how can life in the family be made easier? What will the child's relationship with friends and siblings be like? In the successful tradition of the Gesell institute series! "Your Eight-Year-Old" is a well-researched! highly accessible guide. chapter one CHARACTERISTICS OF THE AGE      The typical Eight-year-old can be described as outgoing, lively, and evaluative. Unlike the child at Seven, he does not withdraw when the going gets tough. On the contrary, he remains right out in front, meeting every challenge that life throws his way.   With his typically outgoing, expansive nature, an Eight-year-old is much more responsive to his environment than at Seven. With his high energy level, he seems willing to tackle almost anything, even the new and difficult. He is expanding emotionally, growing out of his earlier shyness, and relating to other people more easily than he used to. He even approaches strangers with some confidence.   Eight’s liveliness, or speed, is obvious to almost any adult. He darts around the house or yard, seemingly unaware of physical obstacles in his path. His entire body seems ready for action. He works fast, plays fast (loves running games), talks fast, even eats fast. When necessary he can shift very rapidly from one activity to the next, and wastes little time in looking back.   Though at times his expansiveness and speed lead to carelessness, these usually don’t cause the Eight-year-old too much difficulty. However, his evaluativeness certainly does. It makes him all too aware of his own failures. Eight tends to be hard on himself for his mistakes. His evaluativeness also makes him all too aware when other people do not respond as he would like them to. Eight is extremely sensitive to perceived criticism of others. On the other hand, this evaluativeness sometimes helps him make sound judgments as to what he can or cannot accomplish, when he is or isn’t going to be successful. This helps to curb his headlong rush into things and can sometimes prevent him from undertaking the totally impossible.   Intellectually, as in other ways, Eight is becoming more expansive. He can express amazement and curiosity. He is growing aware of the impersonal forces of nature. He can distinguish fundamental similarities and differences when comparing a baseball and an orange, an airplane and a kite, wood and glass. The origin and growth of plants from seeds begins to intrigue him. He takes a deepening interest in the life processes of animals. He is even beginning to believe that all men are mortal and that even he will one day die. But at this relatively positive age, this knowledge does not depress him as it might have done earlier.   How Eight loves to talk! He comes home from school just “bursting” with news: “You never saw anything like it!” “Oh, it was awful!” In fact, everything tends to be dramatized: “Hey, what’s the matter with me!” “This has got me crazy!” “I always get the easy ones wrong.”   Personal space is expanding for the Eight-year-old. He can now return home alone by bus from a somewhat distant point. His walking area within his own neighborhood is so wide that it is sometimes hard to locate him. He loves to take trips to new cities, visit museums, zoos, and other places of interest. Eight’...

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• Autori: Louise Bates Ames, Carol C. Haber, Carol Chase Haber, Frances L. Ilg
• Editore: Dell Publishing Inc.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.03.1990
• EAN: 9780440506812
• ISBN: 978-0-440-50681-2
• Pagine: 160
• Dimensioni: 137 mm x 202 mm x 10 mm
• Categoria: Guide e manuali > Salute