Your 8-11 Year Old Children that fall between the ages of 8 and 11 are a special bunch of kids. If you've noticed, children of this age group develop a unique set of skills and modes of reasoning that probably is neither as important in younger kids nor as evident in older kids. Jean Piaget, the eminent developmental psychologist, calls this age the stage of Concrete Operations. Children begin to be much more interested in tangible objects and events.
Children also begin to build a sense of morals and a code of values.
All of these attributes serve as a springboard to adolescence and eventually, before you know it, adulthood. Erik Erikson, anthropologist and developmental psychologist, lends a slightly different perspective to this age group. The children in this age range are mainly in the stage of Industry versus Inferiority. Kids keep busy building and creating - accomplishments are of the utmost importance and should be rewarded. Children become very interested in technology and the use of tools, both literal and metaphorical.