Questions tagged [middle-childhood]

Age specific questions from about 8 years to about 11 years. Younger: primary-schooler. Older: pre-teen.

This age specific tag covers questions about kids after they have been in school for a while, until they start to turn into teens, so say from about 8 years of age to about 11 years.

As with any age specific tag, the edges are fuzzy between this and the previous and following tags: and .

Rule of thumb: once they move up to the second round of schooling then you're ready to move up to middle-schooler, until they start to turn into teenagers.

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How to help a tomboy not dread puberty

She's ten and mostly plays with the boys, fitting in well due to her easy-going nature, outstanding athleticism, strong sense of fair play, and wild and crazy sense of humor. She's super competitive, one of the leaders of the pack in terms of…
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How to answer child's hard questions

I have recently found myself facing my sweet 9-year old cousin, who looked at me with those big naive eyes, and knowing me as the geeky aunt who knows everything, asked "why did the Germans do this to us?" Meaning the holocaust. At which point I…