Humanities Homework Help

Introduction:

Using  your textbook, along with other credible resources, research social and  emotional development in infants and toddlers.  Focus your research on  the development of emotions and feelings in very young children, infant  and toddler fears and parent strategies for helping them cope,  resiliency and healthy emotional development, caregiving strategies that  promote resiliency, and how adults can support a child’s sense of  self-direction and self-regulation.

Assignment:

Design  a newsletter to distribute to parents at your childcare center that  provides information, tips, and resources for supporting infant and  toddler social and emotional development and its importance.  Include  all of the following information when creating your newsletter:

1. Define attachment and explain its role in emotional development.

2. Describe the development of emotions and feelings in infant and toddlers. 

a. social referencing

b. fear 

c. anger 

d. self-calming techniques

3. Explain temperament and resiliency in infant and toddlers.

a. three temperamental types of infants

b. characteristics of temperament

c. child outcomes of developing self-direction and self-regulation

4. Provide  a minimum of three strategies and/or activities that parents can  implement at home to support their child’s social and emotional  development for each of the following:  

a. promoting resiliency

b. helping children cope with fear

c. helping children cope with anger

d. supporting self-direction and/or self-regulation

i. Provide  a brief summary of the strategy and/or activity, the area of social and  emotional development supported, and provide an example of how to  execute the strategy and/or implement the activity to provide  clarification for parents

ii. You should have 12 strategies and/or activities total (3 for each bullet point above) 

5. Include a minimum of two color photos relating to the information presented in your newsletter.