This is the stage of a child wherein his attitude is often unreliable. One moment he is enthusiastic and the next he is all of a sudden grumpy. You would notice that a few minutes ago he was gracious, bighearted and affectionate while within a few minutes he changes into a kid who is envious and crying. Their minds are working too well and they develop to think rationally while progressively improving on their analytical skills and with that, they begin to understand the reasons on why things happen and why things have to be in a particular way but simply in their own logical understanding. Oftentimes they are so sensitive and that they do not take criticism well and are always hurt and upset when they are being criticized.

Physical Appearance of a Six Years old

• At this age, your child’s baby teeth are replaced by permanent teeth.
• Most of the kids at this age suffer from myopia or nearsightedness.
• They have started to grow and have increased in their weight and have grown even taller too.

Motor Development

• A six year old kid may tend to be restless and has trouble staying still and enjoys every moment of the day especially during their play time with their peers.
• Has developed the ability to tell time and can remember special occasions and knows the important dates and are able to tell the difference of today, yesterday and tomorrow.
• Enjoys creating things such as paper cutting, amazed words with pictures, reads well, enjoys playing with peers such as bicycling, swimming, kicking a ball, cutting papers into small shapes and a lot of activities involving physical and mental skills.

• At six, your child speaks very well and loves to tell stories about his escapades of the day and stories he heard from a teacher and bedtime stories.
• Asks too much questions and interacts with adults well.
• Can do sentences in proper order and constructs it very well.

Social and Emotional Development

• They are too fearful of the dark and hearing to ghost stories and creatures that are so horror-some.
• They are also very sensitive which in turn makes them either too shy or too bossy. They needed attention from the others aside be it their parent or any close friend. At this age, a six- year old needs encouragement and praise and acceptance that they are loved and importance must be given for who they are and whatever they do.
• Being criticized makes them feel guilty and putting the blame on others for every mistake can be commonly seen. They even tend to lie just to avoid being blamed and being punished. Making them feel guilty about their every mistake is not a good way for their development because it will make them to lose their self confidence.

Daily Activities

• Kids at this age have a very good appetite, though they tend to ask for more than they actually eat. Lunch is their favorite meal time but they often want a large bedtime snack.
• Taking a daily nap for a six year old kid is a hard time because they rarely sleep during the day but then mostly they sleep early tired of the their long day. They need at least 10 hours of sleep each night and  hearing their favorite bedtime story or talk about their escapades during the day makes them feel good before they sleep.
• Taking a bath for six years olds’ is a big no-no, especially for the little boys. As a parent you often have to tell him carefully the reasons as to why you ask him to have a bath regularly, brush his teeth once during the day and once during the night and wash his hands frequently.
• Oftentimes they leave their clothes unclean or not neat and shoes scattered everywhere. These kids need to be taught to keep their things in their proper order.

Disciplining a six year old

• Sometimes they are so stubborn and that they even ignore rules or obey as per their parents; this is only just their strategy for you to pay attention to their actions. Discipline them by sitting down and having a small talk with them and letting them know as to why have you created the rules and what benefits they get by following the rules.
• At this age the kid is full of tensions and it is just a normal phase of their development. They can be helped coping with tension through talk time to identify feelings and talk about fears. A physical activity helps in easing away their tensions in a positive way. Do not offer a six year old child, choices that he can’t handle.

Activities and Interests

• Three general types of play in early childhood: self centered play, object play and social play. As the child approached being six year old, all types of play remain but the trend upgrades to social play. 
• These social plays includes role laying such as dramatic scripts, characterizing themselves as either their school teacher and class students, parents and their child, partners, police and culprits and so on. Characterizing role play further helps in their development of perspectives builds empathy and helps them feel a sense of social power and competence.
• Object play means single play with toys but then it became social because they have to interact with their fellow kids at their age. Dolls will be incorporated in the theatrical script, plain board games are enjoyed with a crowd, and house and school play needs props. The disparity now is that two or few extra children will play jointly with the toys, creating their individual games by means of reciprocity to describe the use of toys.
• Some six year old kids may even love to play alone with their favorite toys. They are even good readers or one who enjoys reading as a past time, in this sense they make them feel comfortable and less stressful on their being a six year old. A six year old needs a private time to play to relieve the tension of a social development.
• A parent should know how to provide their child opportunities for them to have social play time and solitary play time with toys and objects that reflect the child’s personal interests.

At age six, the child learns how to cope up with his environment.

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