Six-year-olds: Development, behavior and parenting tips

What can you expect from your 6-year-old developmentally? Parenting experts discuss development benchmarks for 6-year-old behavior and discipline, and offer parenting tips.
Understanding your 6-year-old requires a basic understanding of what is happening developmentally. This is the age when your child's personality really begins to shine, while their little bodies undergo some major growth. Every parent has hoped for that mythical parenting handbook to appear at one time or another — to no avail, of course. Hoping won't get you far when it comes to parenting, but learning all you can about your child's stage of development will definitely give you an advantage when it comes to parent-child relations. What's happening physically? Six-year-olds will demonstrate increased control over their bodies, while their

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