Your Eight Year Old: Lively and Outgoing

The eight-year-old child is an exuberant,??outgoing bundle of energy; he meets every challenge??head-on, willing to try almost anything. Sometimes??parents are amazed at the enthusiasm and excitement??with which their child greets the??world.



However, eight is also a time when the child??begins to do a great deal of analyzing and??evaluating, finding fault in himself and??others--especially Mohter. How do parents help an eight-year-old??through this up-and-down age? What should parents??expect in their relationships with the child and??how can life in the family be made easier? What??will the child's relationship with friends and??siblings be like? In the successful tradition of the??Gesell institute series, Your??Eight-Year-Old is a well-researched, highly??accessible guide.