Developmental Tasks of Middle Childhood:
Ages
6-12
1. Learning physical skills necessary
for ordinary games;
2. Building wholesome attitudes toward
oneself as a growing organism;
3. Learning to get along with
age-mates;
4. Learning an appropriate masculine
or feminine social role;
5. Developing fundamental skills in
reading, writing, and calculating;
6. Developing concepts necessary for
everyday living;
7. Developing conscience, morality,
and a scale of values;
8. Achieving personal
independence;
9. Developing attitudes toward social
groups and institutions.
Created by Dr. Gordon
Vessels 2005
Havighurst,
R. J. (1972). Developmental
tasks and education. New
York: David McCay.