School Age

• School Age

  Age: 6-12 years old
• School Age

  • industry principle (sipag)
  • sense of industry vs. inferiority
  • girls are taller than boys
• School Age

  Sexual maturity of the girls starts at 10 years old

  1. Thelarche - earliest sign; breast budding
  2. Adrenarche - (+) pubic hair and axillary hair
  3. Menarche - 1st men's; last sign

  N color: dark red

  N odor: marigold

  N volume: 30 to 80 mL

  Average men's cycle: 28 day cycle
• School Age

  Sexual maturity of the boys starts at 12 years old

  1. Development of testes and its internal structures
  2. Enlargement of penis
  3. (+) pubic hair and axillary hair
  4. Darkening of the scrotal skin (dt heat)
  5. (+) viable sperm (12-13 years old)

  • nocturnal emission (wet dreams)

  N color: pearly white

  N volume: 3-5 cc

  N sperm cell count: 300-500 million/ejaculation
• School Age

  Erikson: industry vs. inferiority

  Freud: Latent stage (same sex orientation; no mixing of sexes)

  Piaget: Concrete operational

  Kohlberg: Conventional (good to the eyes of others)

  Play: competitive (indoor)

  Fear: Death and school displacement