Early Childhood
Relationships
- Need support,encouragement, and instructions to become independent
- Parents relationship
- Let the kids make their own choices with some boundaries
- Democratic parenting style: support kid with clear limits
- Authoritarian parenting style: controlling and corrective
- Permissive parenting style: let child control situations
- Sibling relationship
- Frequent conflicts occur
- With new born babies coming in may have a hard time with less attention
Techniques
- Kids may test limit in unsafe or unacceptable ways
- Power Assertion: physical means to punish child's privileges (ex: grounding, taking toys away)
- Induction: uses explanation to address a child's action
- Love Withdrawal: threatening to remove love from caregiver and child's relationship ("Silent treatment", not being able to see caregiver, ect.)
Emotions,Play and Cultural influences
- Children are easily pleased
- Fears increase: afraid of the dark,doctor offices,loud noises
- Temper tantrums increase
- Functional play: repetitive motions moving toy cars
- Constructive play: building blocks
- With play comes friendship and learning to share
- Gender identity: knowing if your a girl or boy
- Parents show early influences on the child's life
- Language and communication helps them with gestures and movements
- Help interact with others
- Slowly learn the right and the wrongs
- Kids are at conventional morality