Late childhood spans from age 6 until sexual maturity. This stage is marked by profound changes that affect social and personal adjustment as children enter first grade. Physical changes occur and influence attitudes, values, and behavior. Boys and girls mature sexually at varying ages during this period. Late childhood is characterized by names like the troublesome age, sloppy age, and quarrelsome age from parents' perspectives and the elementary school age and critical period of achievement from educators' views. Psychologists may call it the gang age, age of conformity, creative age, or play age. Key developmental tasks include physical development and mastering elementary school work.

1. LATE CHILDHOOD
Extend from the age of six years
to the time the individual becomes
sexually mature.
Mark by conditions that profound
affect a child’s personal and social
adjustments.

2. Marked by the child to entrance into
first grade.
Marked physical changes take place
and they are also responsible for
changes of attitudes, values, and
behavior.
Marked variations in the age of boys
and girls become sexually mature.

3. CHARACTERISTICS OF LATE
CHILDHOOD
Names Used by Parents
 Troublesome Age
 the time when children are no longer willing to do
what they are told to do and when are more
influenced by their peers than by their parents and
other family members.
 Sloppy Age
 the time when a children tend to be careless and
slovenly about their appearance and when their rooms
are so cluttered that is almost impossible to get into
them.
 Quarrelsome Age
 The time when family fights common and when the
emotional climate of the home is from pleasant for all
family members.

4. Names Used by Educators
 Elementary School Age
 the child is expected to acquire the rudiments of
knowledge that are essential for successful
adjustment to adult life.
 Critical period in the achievement drive
 a time when children form the habit of being
achievers, under –achievers or over achievres.

5. Names Used by Psychologists
 Gang Age
 children’s major concern is acceptance by their
age mates and membership of gang.
 Age of Conformity
 children are willing to conform to group-approve
standards in terms of appearance , speech , and
behavior.
 Creative Age
 The time in life span when it will be
determined whether will become conformist
or producers of new and original work.
 Play age
 is an overlapping of play activities characteristic
of the younger and those characteristic of
adolescence.

6. DEVELOPMENTAL TASKS OF LATE
CHILDHOOD
 Physical Development