What is your six year old girl like?

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My 6 year old dd loves: gymnastics, trampolining, dancing, swimming, walking, animals, singing, reading, doing maths (!), fairies. She is very mature in that she is well behaved, never whinges or cries, understands she can't have things she wants in shops and so on. However, I feel she is young in other ways.

My 7 year old dsd (only different in age by 4 months): iPhones, iPads, she has a mobile phone, she has her ears pierced, she doesn't believe in Santa etc, she has demands about what clothes she will and won't wear, demands things in shops and so on.

While I'm in no hurry for my dd to grow up, I do worry that perhaps she isn't as 'streetwise' as her peers and may be picked on for it as she still believes in fairies, Santa, the Easter Bunny etc. What is your 6/7 year old girl like? Am I worrying unnecessarily?

Your 6yo sounds more typical to me. Does your DSC have older siblings? That can make a difference. And of course the influence of your DP's ex.

My DD is often seen as mature for her age (vocab, behaviour etc) but has only got into phones etc in the last year, and she is now 11, and has an older brother. At six she was definitely into rainbow fairies, sylvanian families, animals etc. She had already started pestering me to get her ears pierced (influence of an Indian friend who always had very pretty earrings...) but I am only on the verge of saying yes to that now.

I presume you must know some of your DD's friends - aren't their interests more similar to hers?

My nearly 8 year old is very like your 6 year old. Her 5 year old sister is certainly growing up much more quickly however.

I have tried to preserve the magic in certain things, but I guess it is hard if there are other siblings in the step-family who don't feel the same way.

My 6yo dd is exactly the same as your dd! She sounds perfect and has plenty of time to be getting into the sorts of things your dsd is into :).

My 6yr old dd is very much like yours. She likes things quiet, she believes in magic/fairies etc & has a vivid imagination that I want her to keep forever (although has a firm grip on reality). She's not very streetwise and has very little self awareness.
My eldest is 9, she's more highly strung. & likes to think she's streetwise (well more so than my youngest at that age) She's very self aware (from a young age).

My 6 year old is very kind, she doesn't demand things in shops either. She'll ask for the odd thing she'll see in a shop but she doesn't have a strop when she's told no. She loves drawing and riding her scooter, playing on the park.

She does have her ears pierced. I let her for her 6th birthday.

Oh yes, she still believes in Santa and fairies and I suspect she will for a couple more years yet.

No dsd doesn't have older siblings. She's very young in ways - I.e. Still has to be told to stop for roads/not touch hot drinks etc whereas dd is sensible in that respect. Dds friends seem more similar to her, just feel that dsd's interests make her feel a bit babyish as she doesn't want her ears pierced, still wants to play in the garden instead of on gadgets etc.

my dd is 10 and at 6 was definitely as you described your dd.
She now has a tablet and a phone, loves clothes shopping, has lots of friends but will still play with her dolls

Mine is lovely (mostly) very sensible, loves reading.
Believes in fairies, Santa, tooth fairy.
Has a Nintendo ds, but only allowed on that at the weekend.
No ears pierced. Still likes to be in pretty dresses and nice hair bands.

A bit over sensitive (she's scared of scoobie doo, for instance)

She has her moments, but on the whole, she's a joy

Mine (at that age) both lived in an entirely different make believe world, from the moment of waking til she was asleep she was 'in role' as a teacher / fairy / scooby doo etc.

PG films were too scary for her, I remember the howling when trying to watch 101 dalmations!
She spent hours in her 'making area'.
She was very independent and could easily sort out her own breakfast or be in charge ofmaking sandwich lunch for all of us.
An absolutely delightful age.

Yes it's a great age. My 6 yr old is like others have described: sensible, independent, loving, funny, imaginative, a bit over sensitive. She's great company. She doesn't demand things in shops, she accepts no as an answer

She can be a little stroppy at bedtime and cheeky when told off, but apparently she's as good as gold at school so she obviously saves that sort of stuff for me.

She likes playing on the laptop on sites like cbeebies, and she has a nintendo DS. But spends most of her time making things, drawing and playing with her toys.

She definitely has clothes she will and won't wear so I let her pick her own within reason, but TBH she's been like this since she was 3. She certainly doesn't make demands for certain clothes and has no clue about brand names or anything like that.

She still wholeheartedly believes in Father Christmas.

Bouncing, athletic, funny, loves dancing, argues like a lawyer, shirks like a politician, fantastic really.

My 6 year old is like yours. There is some influence on her to be into more grown up stuff as she has 2 older sisters, but I try very hard for her to be little as long as possible. I've banned dds 1 and 2 watching Disney channel when dd3 is around. It's bad enough them watching American rubbish, I don't want dd3 watching it just yet.

Streetwise? A 6 year girl, really? I wouldn't want my 6 year old to be streetwise and into preteen culture. She's a little girl, long may it last.

My dd sounds like yours when she's with me, and like your dsd when at daddy's. Amazing how they can contain multitudes. Her dad doesn't do Santa or the tooth fairy so she doesn't really believe in them. He had her ears pierced (without my knowledge or permission) but she didn't keep them in all the time and they've since closed over.

She can go from very stroppy answering back to wanting a cuddle within minutes.

She loves: spelling, writing, 20p coins, cycling, films, having stories read to her. She's a delight. Mostly.