Your Child at Play: Five to Eight Years : Building Friendships, Expanding Interests, and Resolving Conflicts (Your Child at Play Series)

By Marilyn Segal and Betty S. Bardige

Book Overview

Packed with learning activities, games, poems, and recipes, as well as anecdotes and advice, the eight sections focus on:

Individual Differences and Common Threads (distinguishing between real and pretend; concern with fairness; self-awareness)
The Questions Children Ask (the physical world; the natural world; the social world)
Friends (best friends; controversies and conflicts; sibling play)
Active Play (contact and cuddling; physical feats; sports)
Creative Play (music; art; crafts; storytelling and jokes)
Pretend Play (actor play and dressing up; imaginary playmates; reemergence of pretending)
School Play (reading; writing; arithmetic; collecting facts; science)
Family (attachment and separation; family continuity; traditions)

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557044015
• ISBN13: 9781557044013
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.2" x 9.0"