Which of these child would be in the middle childhood stage ?

Option 4 : A child who can reason logically and do conservation tasks

Childhood refers to the period of the human lifespan, ranging from birth to puberty. It consists of many developmental stages and 'middle childhood' is one of them.

• Children between the ages of 6 to 12 are in the age period commonly referred to as middle childhood. Overall, children are relatively healthy during this period.
• Middle childhood brings many changes in a child’s life. This is a critical time for children to develop confidence in all areas of life, such as through friends, schoolwork, and sports.
• During this time, the growth rate is slow but steady. Children learn motor skills like throwing and running to perfection. The child's thinking develops rapidly and his\her store of information grows at a fast pace.

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Characteristics of middle childhood stage:

• In this stage, a child develops concrete thinking and can indulge in cooperative play. 
• According to Jean Piaget's cognitive development theory, a child who is in middle childhood can reason logically and do conservation tasks. 
• Conservation means that the child realizes that the properties of objects such as mass, volume, and number remain the same, despite changes in the form of the objects.
• Conservation tasks were invented by Piaget to test a child's ability to see how some items remain the same in some ways, even as you change something about them, for instance, their shape. A young child may not understand that when you flatten a ball of clay, it's still the same amount of clay.

Hence, we can conclude that a child who can reason logically and do conservation tasks, would be in the middle childhood stage.