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The Life-Span Perspective - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Middle Childhood has the potential to be the healthiest years of a child's life. This is when we should be really cracking down on healthy habits that are necessary for growth. These habits include proper bedtimes, hygiene, healthy meals, vitamins, active play (indoor and outdoor), etc. This is the time where their bodies are growing rapidly and the way they treat them (based off what they are taught) truly matters.
  - - - From the age of 2 children are growing their cognitive function substantially. This is reliant on their exective function. Executive functioning is based on memory, inhibition, and flexibilty. All of this works together to help the child anticipate, strategize, and plan behavior based on the thoughts they are presented with.
        
        Middle Childhood is the time where they are being taught healthy habits. This is because of physical growth but cognitive as well. Children are now at the age where they understand the reasoning behind what they are being taught/told, but they are still impressionable and looking for direction. This means they are essentially sponges picking up everything that they see. The things they learn here will stem into how they think, learn, and process. They are learning structure and deciding how they will conduct themselves.
  - - - Middle Childhood is where children are changing the sense of self that they once held to the sense of self they are determining on their own. They are now at the stage where they are making friends and comparing themselves to others. This is when self-esteem and bullying and morals and everything of the sort comes into question. Children need guidance during this time to do this in a healthy way. They will base their worth on their intelligence, their status, their bodies, etc. They are coming closer and closer to independence and will soon no longer be as susceptible to the guidance and opinions of their parents. It looks as though this is the mark for defining who they will be and who they will seek guidance and validation from.