My Girl Movie By watching the movie My Girl, I believe this movie is covering the stage of middle childhood development because the main characters, an 11 year old girl and boy, do many things that a child would do or develop during this stage. The developments the movie shows are physical and cognitive, and personality and sociocultural. First, during middle childhood kids ages 6 to 12 start to develop in many ways. One way is physically, cognitive and in motor skills. Children start to grow by getting taller or by gaining weight and they start to mature.
They might try to change their appearance by changing the way they look or dress. However, they don’t just grow physically the your internally. Their brain starts to grow as well as the brains hemispheres. Children start to memorize more, pay more attention, language and hear more. In the movie the main character learns man medical terms or diseases making the character pay more attention and be aware of her body and health. Also there bones start to get bigger and harder. Motor skills start to develop also.
For example gross motor skills like running, jumping, skipping etc. Children also develop accuracy. By developing accuracy the can runs or move faster, jump higher, or throw a ball higher. Fine motor skills develop too. Children start to draw, cut, paint write. All of these developments are great but also the child it is not really aware of the health factors that come. Even though children are really healthy at this time they develop minor illnesses. Also they can have many accidents because at this age you really don’t develop a sense of fear when doing thing.
For example in the movie the girl and boy were running in the forest when they came across a bee hive in which the boy proceeds to throw water and making the hive fall. After the hive falls they start throwing rocks at it making the bees angry and causing the children to run so the bees won’t sting them. When the child starts to develop cognitive thinking they start to think more and solve problems. Children start to recall and memorize things. They start to come up with strategies to help them memorize things easily. They start to build up intelligence. Then they start to develop literacy and in their language.
They will have more vocabulary and talk more with more detail. They will also start to write better and clearly. Second, during middle childhood the children start to develop their personality and how to interact with other people. Children start to develop self-esteem and self-concept. They start to develop characteristics, who they are, what they like and what they don’t like. They start to develop morality knowing what right and what’s wrong. In the movie the main character had not really developed the sense of what right and wrong. She constantly kept interfering with her father’s relationship.
Eventually, by the end of the movie she knew she was wrong and finally decided on what’s right. An important factor about middle childhood is sociocultural. In the movie the main character wasn’t really sociable with her peers because she said that she only would hang out with people her level or people she liked. It’s not until the end of the movie where she starts to hang out with other people. Children also develop responsibilities when it comes to people. For example they learn how to talk to a person, how to respect their feeling and how to care for them.
By having learned this, the child makes more friends by having a good relationship with them. In conclusion, in the movie My Girl, I believe the movie was covering mostly all of the stage of middle childhood development because the main characters, an 11 year old girl and boy, do many things that a child would do or develop during this stage. The developments the movie shows are physical and cognitive, and personality and sociocultural. In the end of the movie I think the main character grow maturity, physically and personally.
