Childhood

A child's physical growth slows down compared to infancy, but development continues rapidly across every domain. Physically, children gain height and weight, walk, run, jump, and play; socially, a child's world expands well beyond the parents to include the wider family, adults near home, and school; and children begin acquiring concepts of right and wrong — the beginnings of a sense of morality. With increasing physical capacities, children become able to perform tasks independently, set their own goals, and meet adult expectations, while the ongoing maturation of the brain, combined with growing opportunities to experience the world, drives the development of children's cognitive abilities. Each of these stran …