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.

• Your Nine Year Old: Thoughtful and Mysterious
• Your Seven-Year-Old: Life in a Minor Key
• Your Ten- to Fourteen-Year-Old
• Your Six-Year-Old: Loving and Defiant
• Your Five-Year-Old: Sunny and Serene
• Your Four-Year-Old: Wild and Wonderful
• Your Three-Year-Old: Friend or Enemy
• Your Two-Year-Old: Terrible or Tender
• Your One-Year-Old: The Fun-Loving, Fussy 12-To 24-Month-Old
• Child Behavior: The Classic Child Care Manual from the Gesell Institute of Human Development