Archive for February, 2009
In the middle and late childhood, children are on different plane, belonging to a generation and feeling all their own. it is the wisdom of the human life span that at no time are children more ready to learn than during the period of expansive imagination at the end of early childhood.
Children develop a sense of wanting to make things – not just to make them, but to make them well and even perfectly. Their thirst is to know and to understand. They are remarkable for their intelligence and for their curiosity. Their parents continue to be important influences in their lives, but their growth also is shaped by successive choirs of friends. They do not think much about the future or about the past, but they enjoy the present moment.