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Sheldon White and others have gathered a good deal of evidence that between the ages of about five and seven years, children become more rational, levelheaded, and objective. This “five-to-seven-shift” seems to take place in a wide variety of cultures, including those that don’t rely on formal schooling. And the evidence for this shift supports the insights of major developmental theorists, such as Piaget and Erikson. After the age of seven or so, these theorists hold, the child’s thinking becomes less zestful and fanciful. Instead, the child examines the world systematically and objectively. The child looks for regularities and lawfulness—an orientation that would seem to manifest itself in the concern for geometric precision in her artwork.
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William Crain
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Jeff Johnson is an early learning trainer, podcaster, and author who founded Explorations Early Learning, Playvolution HQ, and Play Haven.
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