1.   You will learn what to expect as your child matures physically.

2.   As a child matures he sees death and pain everywhere about him, and begins to lose faith in faith and in the ultimate goodness of man.

3.   As a child matures, cognitive thinking becomes more sophisticated.

4.   Degrees of difficulty in the task to be performed can be increased as the child matures.

5.   Mischievous children never mature into delinquents.

6.   Your child may have matured, but the road to adulthood is not a straight path, Coburn said.