3. The Healthiest Time
Growth slows
Gain 5-7 pounds and 2 inches per year
Slim down
Muscle strength and lung capacity
Motor skills improve
4. Children and Sports
Sports are best when parents stay
home
College Sports Excesses Seep Into High
School
5. Childhood Obesity
16-33 percent
American children
obese
Doubled since 1980s
Orthopedic, self-esteem
problems
Pediatric type II
diabetes on the rise
9. Concrete Operational
Stage
Classification
Identity: 5 is always 5
Reversibility: 2+3=5 and 5-3=2
Reciprocity: 4x6=2x12
10. Information Processing
Theory
Sensory register
Working memory
Knowledge base
Processing speed improves
Metacognition: strategize
11. Language Development
Vocabulary growth at 20 words per day
5th graders know about 40,000 words
New understanding of words
Grammar more easily learned
12. Kohlberg’s Moral
Development
Preconventional based on reward and
punishment
Conventional based on what other
people think
Postconventional based on the welfare
of others rather than self
14. Autism Spectrum Disorders
Autism or “selfism”
Poor language skills
Sensitive to touch, sound, detail
Fear change and prefer repetition
Lack social awareness or social
emotions
Asperger’s syndrome
15. Learning Disability:
“A measured discrepancy between
expected learning and actual
accomplishment in a particular
academic area” (Berger, p. 282)
17. Assessment of Intellectual
Skills
Achievement tests are designed to
measure what kids have learned
Aptitude tests are designed to measure
potential to learn
IQ tests are a type of aptitude test
19. Sternberg’s Triarchic
Theory of Intelligence
Academic (Componential)
Creative (experiential)
Practical (contextual)
20. The World of School
Parental involvement
Family capital
Student perspectives
McLaren
Student state (298 minutes)
Street corner state (66)
Home state
Sanctity state
21. Cultural Influences
Hidden curriculum
What lessons do children learn that are
not part of the stated curriculum?
23. The Society of Children
A living laboratory for social skills
Popular-prosocial children
Popular-antisocial children
Withdrawn-rejected children
Aggressive-rejected children
24. Self-Concept
Where do the comparisons come from?
http://www.bratz.com/
Industry vs. Inferiority
25. False Self-Training:
Being a child but being held to
external, adult standards; having
developmental needs denied
26. Child Sexual Abuse
Sexual act with a child performed by an
adult or an older child
Disregard for child’s developmental
immaturity and inability to understand
the sexual behavior (Steele)
29. Divorce’s Impact Depends on:
Degree of conflict prior to divorce
Amount of financial hardship
Actions of divorcing couple
Adjustment of custodial parent
30. Short Term Consequences
(First Year)
Grieving over loss
Reduced standard of living
Adjusting to transitions
Relief from conflict
31. Long Term Negative
Consequences
Greater anxiety about marriage
Unrealistically high expectations for a
partner
Economic/Occupational impact (tied to
financial hardship rather than divorce)
32. Positive Consequences:
Beyond the Deficit Model
Most lead happy, well-adjusted lives
Better relationship with custodial parent
More communication with mothers
More democratic parenting
Freedom to escape negative role
models
Greater emotional independence in sons
33. How to Take Care of Yourself
During Divorce
Take care of your own mental health
Allow children to grieve
Try to have a conflict-free relationship
with ex
Comfortable, healthy environment
34. Impact of Repartnering
Remarriage more difficult than divorce
Changes in parenting
Disagreement over roles
35. Impact of Repartnering
Impact on parental involvement
Greatest involvement when neither partner
has remarried
Least involvement when father has
remarried and mother has not
37. Stepfamilies/Blended Families
As common today as in the 1700-1800s
From divorce rather than death
“Incomplete institution” (Cherlin)
Do children in stepfamilies have more
difficulties than those in single-parent
families?
39. Ten Commandments for
Step parenting
Neutral territory
No preconceived roles
Set limits
Past loyalties
Neutral responses
No instant love
40. Developmental Stages of
Stepfamilies
A 7 year process
Early stages
Fantasy, immersion, and awareness
Middle stages
Mobilization and action
Later stages
Contact and resolution