Middle childhood.

Middle childhood Middle childhood comprises a number of distinctive and important transformations in human development. Many studies of cognitive development have involved children from ages six to twelve. Several distinctive qualities of children emerge especially from this period of time. There are numerous development changes that occur during the middle childhood, which are distinctive to this period and must be recognised as distinctive to this period. "Any division of human development into age periods is …

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