Social Emotional development
Birth to 2 years
Temperament
- Quality and intensity of emotion reactions.
- passivity, irritability, and activity patterns.
- Adjust to the temperaments of different children
- Infants to not let changes bother them
- children also differ in their level
- Irritability or tendency to feel distressed
Attachment
- Strong emotional connection that develops between people.
- infants become attached to a small group
- cooing, kicking, gurgling, and laughing.
- crying and clinging.
- Separation anxiety behavior shown by infants
- child protects because a familiar caregiver/leaving
- appears around six months of age
changes over time
- First 2 years after birth
- many changes in children socially and emotionally
- trust develops when there is predictability
- they will feel safe and happy
birth to three months
- Newborns do not have very refined emotions
- Child may show excitement by looking alert
- Distress shown by crying
- May notice that there are no tears
- When the child cries
three to six months
- Child respond to people with smile
- They may make happy sounds
- Adults play with hold infants
- Crying is still used to show distress
- Tears begin to appear
six to twelve months
- Actively involved with their caregiver
- These children express happiness, joy and surprise
- Make sounds in response to the speech
- don't be surprise if your baby cries
- At sight of stranger
twelve to twenty four months
- Still show separation anxiety
- may cling to parent that is leaving
- Children become more interesting in exploring
- start to take interest in other children
- they do not interact much with them