Motor Skills Childrens motor skills become smoother and more coordinated than in early childhood, for example, they are able to master running, skipping, bicycle riding, and skating. Gross motor skills involve mastery of large muscle movements. Fine motor skills are those dealing with dexterity. Boys will usually out perform girls in gross motor skills, whereas girls typically perform better than boys in fine motor skills. As children get older they become more aware of their bodies, and more able to control their physical movements.
Children are able to keep their attention longer, and have less distracting body movement.
From gender, physical abilities, family life, economic and social class, education, and ethnicity. Stress is defined as the response of individuals to the events that threaten them and affect their coping abilities. One of the major stressors children have to cope with is the separation from parents or guardian. Children have to adjust to the beginning of school. Middle age children begin to attend school for 5 to 7 hours, five days a week.