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Try our fun tests
Have you got children? Do you want to have fun trying some of the sorts of tests you might have seen on Child of Our Time?

We've got three simple tests for you and your children to enjoy, based on some of the themes of the programme. You don't need any special knowledge or equipment - all you need is a printer and some time with your children.

A house
Explore your child’s expectations about types of dwellings and the people that live in them with who lives where?
A stroop test animal
How far can your child override their brain's natural impulses? Find out with what's the animal?

What assumptions do children make based on gender? A good starting point to find out is what do men and women do?
A child on an orange background You can help with some of the research shown in the programme by completing the 2005 series survey
A slumbering childDon't forget, you can still download all the fun, free activity cards from the 2004 series.
A child having fun How much power do you feel you have to influence your life? Explore your attitudes with am I in control?
Fruits Although not a measure of intelligence, a child's skills with words can be important. See how your child does with our tests for verbal fluency
Who am I? surveyExplore how the way we describe ourselves changes as we get older, when you and your children ask who am I?


A child in his pyjamas
What is self?
A sense of self cannot be achieved in one go - it’s something which develops. Find out more in our article what is self'?
Gender development
Children as young as two can have stereotypical ideas about boys and girls. Where do these ideas come from? Parents? Peer pressure? Society? Robin Banerjee takes a look at the impact of these factors on gender development.
Animal stroop
Dr Ingram Wright explains the importance of being able to override our brain's 'auto pilot' – such as stopping running after a ball when it goes into the road! And there's even a way of testing young children's 'inhibitory control' - the strangely named 'animal stroop'.