Social-Emotional Development.
Birth-Age 2.
Temperament.
- Passivity: relates to how actively involved a child is with his or her surroundings.
- Irritability: tendency to feel distressed.
- Activity Patterns: levels of movement also vary in infants.
Attachment.
-Mainly Attached To :
-Separation Anxiety.
- Mothers
- Fathers
- Caregivers
- Older Siblings
-Separation Anxiety.
- First Sign: at six months.
- Becomes clearer by nine months.
- By 15 Month , the anxiety is very strong.
Changes Over Time.
-Birth to Three Months:
- Do not have very refined emotions.
- Excitement by looking alert , smiling , or wiggling.
- Distress is shown by crying.
- Children respond to people with smiles and laughter.
- Makes happy sounds as adults play with , hold , or feed them.
- Tears begin to appear.
- Become actively involved with their caregivers.
- They make sounds in response to the speech of others.
- Children have also developed attachment to their caregivers.
- Children still show separation anxiety.
- May cling to a parent who will be leaving soon.
- Children start to take more interest in other children.
- They like to play next to other children , but they do not interact much with them.