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The Eleven-Year-Old: Growing Up

Growth Patterns
Impulsive, moody, restless... How does your eleven-year-old grow? Click on the links below to see how.

Physical

  • Vast appetite for food and physical activity and talking

  • Growth spurt of early adolescence for some girls

  • Constant motion; restless

  • More illness: colds, flu, ear infections

  • Need for more sleep

  • Physical aggression not uncommon

  • Fine motor capability good

    • Social

  • Moody; sensitive

  • Oppositional; tests limits

  • Often does best away from home

  • Impulsive; rude; unaware

  • Loves to argue

  • Difficulty with decisions

  • Self-absorbed

  • Extremes of emotion

  • Inclusion/exclusion; height of cliques; seeks to belong

    • Language

  • Discovery of the telephone

  • Impulsive -- talks before thinking

  • Can be cruel

  • Argumentative; debater

  • Appreciates humor

  • Imitates adult language

    • Cognitive

  • Prefers new tasks and experiences to reflection or revision of previous work

  • Able to abstract

  • Deductive reasoning advances

  • Can establish and modify rules, develop hypotheses

  • Increased ability to de-center and see world from various perspectives

  • Loves to argue

    • From Yardsticks: Children in the Classroom Ages 4-14 by Chip Wood, © 1997 by Northeast Foundation for Children (800) 360-6332. All rights reserved as permitted under the US copyright Act of 1976. No part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or stored in a database or retrieval system without the prior written permission of the publisher.

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