Development

Important:

• Annual growth in height is approximately 5 cm and weight gain about 2.5 kilos.
• Adult teeth appear around the age of 6 to 13 years, girls earlier than boys.
• A child is active all the time at this age.
• A six-year-old child can already control her body quite well but at times may be rather clumsy.
• A child has the ability to learn to ski, skate and cycle.
• Friends are important, children play, among other things, creative and role play games together.
• A child can cooperate in a group.
• A child’s speech is already grammatically fairly correct and clear.
• A child enjoys tales and likes to tell them, too.
• This is the age when a child asks a relentless stream of questions. A child asks about life and death.
• A child also starts to think about right and wrong.
• At this age a child’s moods fluctuate.
• A child is easily scared.

When a child talks about her fears, they should be listened to and not played down. A child is very often comforted by the mere fact that somebody listens to her. A child’s questions should be responded to. When a child wakes up to a bad dream, sleeping in a parent’s bed comforts the child or a parent can stay by the child’s bed until she falls back to peaceful sleep again.