The fifth birthday represents an important landmark in a child's development. They are now ready to start primary school, and we no longer speak of a baby; instead we refer to the boy or the girl. Over the next five years, as their experiences outside the home increase they seem to be more reserved and difficult to share things with. This is a child trying to make sense of their new experiences while preserving their link to their earlier environment.
The author, AH Brafman worked as a consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist in the NHS.
Teenage Parenthood: What's the Problem?
Edited by Simon Duncan, Rosalind Edwards and Claire Alexander. The Tufnell Press
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