1st YEAR EMOTIONAL and SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

ICE CREAM MATCH According to Dreyer’s Ice Cream and researchers at the Smell and Taste Treatment and Research Foundation, certain types of ice cream determine your personality type. All you have to do is invite a prospective mate over for ice cream and offer your guest a choice of six different flavors of ice cream to find your perfect match.

Banana Cream Pie

You are very easy going, well adjusted, generous, honest and empathetic.

Chocolate Chip

You are generous, competitive, and accomplished; charming in social situations, ambitious and competent.

Strawberries and Cream

You are shy yet emotionally robust, skeptical, detail-oriented, opinionated, introverted, and self-critical.

Vanilla

You are colorful, impulsive, a risk taker who sets high goals and has high expectations of yourself, and enjoys close family relationships.

Butter Pecan

You are orderly, perfectionist, careful, detail-oriented, conscientious, ethical and fiscally conservative. You are also competitive and aggressive in sports. The “Take Charge” type of personality.

Double Chocolate Chunk

You are lively, creative, dramatic, charming, and enthusiastic and the life of the party. Chocolate fans enjoy being at the center of attention and can become bored with the usual routine.

Compatibility Chart:

Vanilla goes best with Vanilla.

Double Chocolate Chunk goes best with Butter Pecan or Chocolate Chip.

Butter Pecan needs Butter Pecan.

Strawberries and Cream go best with Chocolate Chip.

Chocolate Chip is best paired with Butter Pecan or a Double Chocolate Chunk.

Banana Cream Pie is compatible with all flavors!

1. Begins at birth.◦It deals with

A child’s changing feelings about themselves, others, and the world around them.

The process of learning to establish one’s identity as a unique person

Recognizing and express one’s feelings How a baby learns the meaning of love.

◦ Tone of voice, mood, care, facial expression, affection, closeness…

Emotional Development

2. Emotional Development Milestones

3. Nurturing and bonding, as it relates to infants, is: ◦showing love and concern, respect, support, understanding, responding, consistency, etc.

This bond is called attachment ◦a special closeness in a relationship

REVIEW FROM UNIT 1

Attachment: Harry Harlow and Monkeys

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_O60TYAIgC4

4. Failure to Thrive is what happens to babies when they have no one to love and nobody to love them. ◦Causes slower development in all 5 areas of development. (PESCM)

Physical, emotional, social, cognitive, and moral

5. Eric Erickson

Trust vs. Mistrust – stage#1. To develop Trust from an infant:

◦ Bonding with a baby, showing love and affection, getting to know the child

◦ Meeting babies needs in all areas of development

By building trust, infants feel: ◦ The world and caregiver are comfortable and safe◦ Things are good and can be depended on

6. Consistency and routines are necessary for a child to identify the expected behavior and to trust their parents, caregivers, and the world they live in.

Mistrust◦Receive inconsistent care◦Receive little love and attention

Fear and suspicion toward their world world and everyone in it.

Feelings of: unsafe, insecure, lack confidence, unhappy, unloved,

weak, independent, low self-concept, …

6. Eric Erickson

Trust Cycle

Happy Infant

Parents meet the infant’s

needs

Parents meet the infant’s

needsRelaxed and

happy parents

Infant learning trust and feeling bonded

Happy Infant

Parents do not meet the

infant’s needs

Unhappy, fussy, and demanding

infant

Unhappy, frustrated,

and disappointed

parents

Infant learning mistrust and

at risk for failure to

thrive

TRUST

MISTRUST

What Message are you sending?1. What prevented the message from being sent?

Did not know how or understand, feeling inadequate, frustrated, personalities

2. What does this game teach us about trust between a caregiver and a child?Without trust, there is no message being sent.

How much are your children getting that you say? Is it important or just a jumble of messages?You trust that the person will perform their responsibilities correctly and the group trusts that you will do the same.

Felt bonded as a group or frustrated, unhappy, and lack of trust due to failure.

Temperament

7. Nine Temperament Traits

Temperament Define Highly Intense

Less Intense

1. Intensity How strong or weak are a child’s

emotional responses to events or to other

people?

Deep and powerful

responses. Will react loudly and

cry heartily. 

Cry more softly.

2. Persistence How determined is a child to complete an

action?

Become upset if unable to finish a task or a project.

Goal oriented and unwilling to

give up or accept no for an answer.

 

Easily be persuaded to begin a new

activity. Accepts no for an a answer.  

3. Sensitivity How strongly does a child react to their

feelings?

Strong reactions (fussy eater,

uncomfortable clothing, smells,

sights, and sounds) 

Not bothered by smells, sights,

sounds, clothing, food, etc.. 

Temperament Define Highly Intense

Less Intense

4. Perceptiveness

How aware of their surroundings

are they?

Aware of all that is around them.

Easily distracted. Hard time following directions

involving several steps. 

Less likely to notice what’s

going on around them. Makes it easier to follow

through on multi-step tasks. 

5. Adaptability Some children find it easier to adapt

than others.

 Resists change and needs a

schedule.

Is not bothered by change or lack

of a schedule. 

6. Regularity Does a child’s behavior follow

regular patterns?

Depends on and expects to have a

set schedule followed each

day.

Each day’s schedule is different. 

Temperament Define Highly Intense

Less Intense

7. Energy What is a child’s energy

level?

Physically active even

when they are sitting.  

Move much less and prefer

to be still. 

8. First reaction

Children differ in how they

face new situations.

 Dives right in and are open to new activities.

Holds back and watches what

others do before joining.

Less comfortable

with unfamiliar situations. 

9. Mood Is a child typically

cheerful or cranky?

Positive outlook on people,

experiences, and activities. 

More negative outlook

pointing out problems. 

7. The caregiver’s responsibility is to understand and adapt to the temperament

of their child.

Social Development

Infant Social Development

1. Social development is ◦learning the rules of play ◦Learning how to interact with others◦Learning to express oneself to others

Video Clip – Talking Twins

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocjWFGIQr3s

2. Newborns prefer to look at the human face – their main introductory form of socializing.

TYPES OF PLAY

3. Play is important because:◦A child learns about and develops all areas of development. Cognitive, emotional, social, physical, and moral

◦They learn about themselves, other people, and the world around them.

Why is play important?

TYPES OF PLAY

a. SOLITARY PLAY◦ Solitary Play is independent play or playing alone,

having no interest in anyone else or what other’s are doing.

◦ Examples: cars, blocks

b. On –Looker PLAY◦ On-looker Play is watching others play. May talk to

others, but not involved with them.◦ Wants to be close enough to interact, but still keeps to

them self. ◦ Examples: duck duck goose

4. Stranger Anxiety is fear of a strange or unfamiliar face. ◦ Happens about 18 months.◦ Expressed through crying and withdrawal ◦ It occurs because of the infants progressing cognitive

development and understanding of the world.

5. Separation Anxiety is when a child is uncomfortable being away from parents or primary caregiver. ◦ Appears about 6 months and then again (even stronger) at 18

months.

Social Issues