Mar 5, 2019
I read somewhere that Freud called the ages starting around five or six to puberty the latency period. I’m sure I wouldn’t agree with his psycho-sexual analysis of this stage , but I like the idea that there is something easier about this time.During this middle age of childhood, kids are not dueling with any huge developmental or hormonal monsters. The tantrums of toddlerhood are in the rearview mirror and the sullenness of teens in the future.
When my youngest of three kids turned five, it was like a breath of fresh air hit our home. We were suddenly a family with three kids who could all talk, travel and turn the television on by themselves. Our kids spanned the ages from five to 10 and life was busy, full and messy. We have now moved on to a house full of teens and the word"latent" does not apply to anything about their lives. I love the relationship I have with my teens, and I don’t wish for time to go backwards , but I can look back and reminisce about the golden age of family time.My Picky Eaters Have Now Grown Up And Here’s What It Took To Get Them To EatParents are the sun, moon and sky at this age.
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