The Six-Year Old

• Children can jump rope, throw and catch a ball, and perform numerous other feats that require muscle coordination.
• Begin the task but don’t finish them because attention-span is very brief.
• Most children enjoy collecting objects such as shells, leaves, or stones.
• Boys and girls play together in this age, although they prefer to associate with children of the same gender.

Seven–Year-Old

• They are quieter and is ready for learning.
• Enjoy cooperative games such as hide and seek, and advanced motor activities such ad roller scatting, bike riding.
• Know the months and the seasons and begin to tell the time.

Eight-Year-Old

• Children prefer group activities, such as Brownies and Cub Scouts.
• Prefer companions from same gender.
• Enjoy more competitive sports.
• Wants to do everything and can play alone for a longer period.
• Understand the numbers of days before special events (e.g. birthdays, Christmas).

Nine-Year-Old

• Resist the adult authority if it does not coincides with the opinions in the ”group”.
• Hand and eye coordination is almost or well developed.
• Listening to the radio, watching TV and playing computer games.
• Ready for more complex math, can multiply, know months and dates.

Ten-Year-Old

• Are courteous to the adults.
• Think clearly about social problems and prejudices.
• Want to be independent and resent being told what to do but is receptive to suggestions.
• Maintain good writing speed use fractions and knows abstract numbers.

Youth/Teenagers 

• They often seem to be preoccupied.
• They are not ready to stand alone, but they cannot bear the thought of depending on parents.
• They think they must overcome the problems without parental help. Their attitude implies, “can’t you see that I’m not a child anymore?”
• They enjoy earning money by obtaining odd jobs.
• They are able to understand and accept reasonable discipline.