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Industrious – enjoys learning new skills and trying them out
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Productive – more interested in the end result, not as much the process of making something
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Conscious of rules – wants everyone to play “fair”
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Developing competence – likes the feeling of learning new skills that increases this competency
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Experiencing feelings of inferiority
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May begin experimentation with alcohol/drugs
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Growing awareness of body image – both obesity and anorexia can be concerns
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Grows in uneven spurts
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Inventive – enjoys experimenting with materials to build, create, see outcomes
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Self-conscious
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Developing problem solving skills – needs help to work out situations with peers, but wants to figure out cognitive and social problems
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Self worth is increasingly defined by their achievements
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Ready for more independence and responsibility
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Great variation among children of this age group in maturity, physical, emotional and social growth
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Moodiness – can occur in the later years
