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17 - Social and Emotional Development in Middle Childhood

from Part 6 - Middle Childhood

Phillip T. Slee
Phillip T. Slee
Affiliation:
Flinders University of South Australia
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Summary

‘– Things That Make Children Sweet-tempered’

‘When I'm a Duchess’ she said to herself (not in a very hopeful tone though), ‘I won't have any pepper in my kitchen at all. Soup does very well without – Maybe it's always pepper that makes people hot-tempered’, she went on, very pleased at having found out a new kind of rule ‘and vinegar that makes them sour – and barley-sugar and such things that make children sweet-tempered. I only wish people knew that: then they wouldn't be so stingy about it, you know’.

Lewis Carroll, Alice Through the Looking Glass

KEY TERMS AND CONCEPTS

  • Latency

  • Industry versus inferiority

  • Self-concept

  • Self-esteem

  • Self-dynamism

  • Social skills

Introduction

The world of the primary school child is to a large extent a world closed to adults in so much as it is a society of its own. There is a timeless quality associated with this period of children's lives. Primary school children move into their own world of magic, fairytale and ritual, which by its very secrecy excludes adults. In her book To Kill a Mockingbird (1960), Harper Lee allows us an all too rare glimpse into the secret world of children, a world characterised by secrets, rituals and rules. The success of the Harry Potter series of books captures significant themes which entrance primary school children. ‘Harry Potter is a wizard! Along with Ron and Hermione, his best friends, Harry is in his third year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry’ (Rowling 1999).

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Child, Adolescent and Family Development , pp. 358 - 382
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2002

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