What games do 7 9 yr olds play Monsters witches dragons The outside world is beginning to open up and offers excitement but also fear of the unknown Childrens stories are filled with giants and monsters and dragons all ID: 698765
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Childhood/LatencySlide2
What do a five year olds do? Slide3
What games do 7- 9
yr
olds play ?Slide4
Monsters, witches, dragons…..
The
outside world is beginning to open up and offers excitement but also fear of the unknown. Children’s stories are filled with giants and monsters and dragons all
of which
have to be overcome by characters that are strong, noble and good. Slide5Slide6
G
ames
often replicate family life and adult relationships.
Children
create secret places, hideaways, dens, to act out their games of families and pseudo-adult relationships.
People
are divided into polarised groups of ‘the goodies’ and ‘the baddies’. Slide7
For the normally developing child….
Rules, certainties and structures are a way of keeping out doubts and fears and to manage all the new anxieties about all that there is to learn achieve and do ….without the
safebase
of the family….
Meltzer
(1997) notes the latency child’s satisfaction in naming and learning by rote : a mastery based on labelling rather than enquiry …learning about things …there are endless lists of things…things are collected, swopped, ordered and sorted…..Slide8
Latency
Beginning to find an identity
of self
Building inner strength
Have
d
eveloped source memoryManaging the next stage of separation Letting go of parentsSlide9
The
way of not losing them is to internalise them – as a mixture of:
A loving safe and reliable presence
Rule enforcing figures
It
is crucially important to
mental health and development
that these are in balance and provide the child with an internal working model that allows him to function on his own. Later these will become his moral code influenced by the values and qualities of his parents. Slide10Slide11
THE latency CHILD?
Is there a space in the parents mind for the absent child? Is the child being held in mind?