1. InfantsSocial-Emotional Development Unit 2 Miss Godbey

2. Who influences our social and emotional development first?

3. Temperament • Temperament is the tendency to react in a certain way. • Easy • Slow to warm up • Difficult

4. Easy Infants • 4 out of 10 babies • Regular habits • Eating • Sleeping • They respond quickly to a new situation • Cheerful • Great start with parents

5. Slow to warm up infants • 1 out of 10 babies • Take time to adapt to new situations

6. Difficult infants • 1 out of 10 • Irregular habits (eating, sleeping) • Protest in new situations (cry, scream, etc) • Rough start even with parents • Parents feel they are doing something wrong • Parent stress increases baby’s stress • Parents should provide supportive care: • Extra holding • Cuddling • Soothing • East them into new situations • Alerting them to upcoming changes

7. Some babies cannot be grouped because their temperaments vary from day to day!

8. Temperament factors • Partly inherited • Prenatal conditions • Ease of birth • Environment Personality

9. Table activity Create a story about the temperament you have been assigned. Your classmates will guess which temperament you are describing.

10. The growing social world! • First year aspects of social development: • Interacting with Others • Learning to Trust • Showing Attachment

11. Interacting with others • Babies can turn heads in the direction of human voice • Move bodies in the rhythm of human speech • They look at people’s faces • Babies send signals through: • Cries • Coos • Smiles

12. Learning to trust • Key part of social development • According to Erikson, infants learn trust by: • Having a consistent environment • Same routines, caregivers, surroundings • Having basic needs met • Food, clothing, warmth, sleep, • Cleanliness, cuddling, playing, • Communicating with others Erikson’s Trust vs. Mistrust

13. Attachment • Closeness between people that remains over time • Baby Parents = Attachment • Parents Baby = Bonding • Attachment behaviors • Staying close to, clinging, following, smiling, crying, calling out for someone • Closely related to fear of strangers and fear of being left alone

14. Development of Attachment Behaviors

16. Infants express emotions • Love • Anxiety • Separation Anxiety • Anger • AKA Infant Rage (8 to 10 months)

19. S T O P

20. Food FacesThis game teaches your baby to construct a pattern (in this case a face) — and who would guess such fun is also a way to hone the fine motor skills needed for eating? It works best if your baby is either in a highchair, seated on your lap, or in a booster seat at the "big table."Skills developed: pattern recognition, fine motor What you'll need: a meal that includes several small, easily manipulated items such as peas, cubed diced cooked carrots, corn off the cob, cherry tomatoes cut into quarters half, coarsely grated cheese, meat cut into small bits, noodles or spaghetti