Observation Of Middle Childhood

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Middle childhood is the time where children start to fully develop their skills. They develop their comprehension skills, communication skills, and many more. In order to get a better look into the life of children during this stage, I decided to observe my niece’s friend, Ryan, who is almost at the end of her middle childhood stage. Ryan is an eleven year old girl who attends Bassett Elementary. I choose to observe Ryan because, she is a very unique girl who does not always fit into what the average girl her age is like. While observing Ryan I noticed that she was slightly shorter than her other classmates. Ryan being shorter than her classmates is abnormal for a girl her age, because on average girls are taller than boys during this age. …show more content…

She prefers to be alone during lunch and recess which is uncommon for a girl her age. According to Erik Erikson Ryan is in the industry-versus (Felman,2014). Normally this is the stage where girls develop friendship through sharing secrets or common interests, however, Ryan don 't seems to have any interest in developing friendships. I also noticed that some of the kids would try to tease her on the playground about her height and she would immediately start attacking them. She has a hard time controlling her anger, so, she is in counseling and has a mentor to help her begin to control her anger better. The thing with Ryan I think she 's just trying to figure out who she is as a person. She still, however has very high self-esteem and does not let what anyone thinks or says about her impact how she feels about herself. According to the textbook African American self-esteem is lower in these years but, that 's not the case with Ryan (Felman,2014). Middle childhood is children start to develop abilities that will last into adulthood. Ryan is at the end of her middle childhood and will shortly become an adolescence. Although Ryan is developing different than most girls, she is still on a good track to becoming a healthy, productive adult. She still has time for her skill to form better and

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