Discuss the importance of peers and peer acceptance during middle childhood.
What will be an ideal response?
Answers will vary. Parents can provide children only with experience relating to adults. Children profit from experience with peers because peers have interests and skills that reflect the child's generation (Gauvain, 2016). Peers afford practice in cooperating, relating to leaders, and coping with aggressive impulses, including their own. Peers can be important confidants (Dunn, 2015; Wentzel, 2014). Peers, like parents, help children learn what types of impulses-affectionate, aggressive, and so on-they can safely express. Children who are at odds with their parents can turn to peers as sounding boards. They can compare feelings and experiences. When children share troubling ideas and experiences with peers, they realize they are normal and not alone (Wentzel, 2014). Acceptance or rejection by peers is important in childhood because problems with peers affect adjustment later on (Dunn, 2015; Wentzel, 2014). Children who are aggressive and disrupt group activities are sometimes rejected by peers (Boivin et al., 2005). However, some aggressive children are popular; there is apparently no general rule (Ojanen & Findley-Van Nostrand, 2014; Troop-Gordon & Ranney, 2014).
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