accoording to freud, latency is rechanneled from sexual pursuits to activities such as school and cognitive development, friendships with children of the same age and gender, sport, and hobbies (Sarnoff,1976) post-freudians who focus on social and cognitive aspects of development and deemphasize sexual aspects consider the latency period to period to be critical in the chila development(e.g. erikson,1963,1968;sullivan,1953)