PSYC 304 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Playtime, Cheerleading, Noncustodial Parent
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Body: great improvements in mass and fine motor skills, increasing cognitive skills. Society: parents, peers, family, coaches, teachers, teammates, bullies, neighbors. Kids have increasing skills and now even desires to play football, or skateboard, cheerlead. Big issue for industry making sure kids are working hard, practicing, not changing minds all the time. Inferiority can be self imposed or teased into child. Worse thing to be called at this age is a quitter . Virtue: competence not only can i start (initiate) a project, i have resilience to finish. This age group takes divorce the hardest. Teens often little effect, younger kids don"t understand. Return to childhood activities year or two not interested in playing soccer anymore . Accepting the permanence of divorce fantasize about parents getting back together. Resolve self blame kids feel it is their fault. Resolving the loss of the non-custodial parent kids have to get used to new ways loss of traditions.
