Kids know if they’re ‘super’ by age 5

Children have a sense of self-esteem–a characteristic that stays relatively stable throughout their life–by age 5, even before they begin kindergarten, a new study shows.

"Our work provides the earliest glimpse to date of how preschoolers sense their selves," says lead author Dario Cvencek, a research scientist at the Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences at the University of Washington.

by Molly McElroy-University of Washington

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