One milestone for the social and emotional domain for middle childhood is “pay more attention to friendship and teamwork(pg1). Parents can look to see if their kids are asking to hang out with friends more often, wanting to play outside or go over to someone’s house after school for a play date, etc. They want to take part in sports and stay after school to hang out with friends and play a sport they enjoy. One milestone for the physical domain for middle childhood is more independence in motor function and sports. They want to be able to learn how to ride a bike, hit a baseball/softball, volleyball, etc. Their kids start to develop quickly in this stage of their lives. One milestone for the cognitive domain for middle childhood is “learn better ways to describe experiences and talk about thoughts and feelings(pg1). For example, your kid could come how from school and talk about in good detail about what happened at school today. They struggled in their math class, can’t figure out the order of operations so they asked their teacher to help explain it better to them. Now, they need their parents to help out and give them extra practice problems. They also saw a fellow student getting bullied and instead of just watching it happen, they whet to their teacher or principal and told them what was going on. Afterwards, they went and asked them if they were okay and they said yeah and they asked if they’d want to hang out sometime.
Source: https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/childdevelopment/positiveparenting/middle.html