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The Prompt: 

Respond to the following prompt(s) for your discussion forum post:

1. Describe emotional development in very young children.
2. How does it change from the first year (infancy) to the second year (toddlerhood)?
3. How would you define temperament and resiliency? How are these concepts helpful to caregivers of very young children?

Reply:

by Geneva Stafford – Sunday, October 24, 2021, 4:55 PMNumber of replies: 0

1. When it comes to infants and their emotions, their feelings and emotions end up changing over time. It was first believed that infants didn’t feel much of anything when they were first born. That was until Leboyer advertised his technique regarding gentle birth and children’s emotions. Even though infants are not able to talk and express how they are feeling and what they have experienced, their actions are noticeable and observable. During their first six weeks after birth, infants don’t have any sort of refined emotions and generally tend to cry. As their emotions mature, they are able to differentiate their feelings and emotions, and make them more refined. This basically means that children begin to label their experiences in their minds and have adult-like feelings. It is also shown that late in their first year, infants are able to link clues and emotions as they see someone else express that specific emotion. By their second year, children are able to show feelings such as pride, embarrassment, shame, empathy, happiness, and sadness. The idea of a baby looking at an adult and noticing the emotion on the caregivers face is also known as social referencing.

Infants use the emotions of others to guide their own personal emotions. Infants and toddlers also learn to use their experiences to calm themselves down. Children begin to divide their feelings into different categories such as “yes” and “no” feelings. These are also referred to as the positive and negative emotions in a child’s mind. The “yes” feeling are also known as as the feelings that make the child happy, smile, and laugh. These feelings include joy, pleasure, delight, content, satisfaction, and power. “No” feelings are feelings that make the child feel upset, stressed, scared, or mad. These feelings include fear and anger. The “no” feelings are the feelings in children that demand the most attention.

Temperament is a child’s individual behavior style. It is also their unique way of responding to the world around them. resiliency on the other hand is the ability to adapt to the positive aspects that are all around them. parent’s and caregiver’s can use these concepts to understand how young children think and act in their daily environments. Adults can also get a better idea and understanding as to how children’s minds work to process their daily environmental surroundings.

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by Briana Hardy – Wednesday, October 27, 2021, 8:59 PMNumber of replies: 0

Emotional development in anyone specifically young children isn’t linear and there various subdivisions so-to-speak to the brain and the emotions. We are all are born feeling vivid and strong emotions from when we’re born to death and only as we get older, learn, experience and watch those around us do we learn to regulate and decipher those emotions. Children experience emotions such as fear and anxiety starting when they’re very young because they just formed attachments and are unaware of their circumstances as a whole. If their mother walks away this could cause these emotions, or even if a stranger enters the same room as them. Before language has fully developed and children are comfortable speaking, they will have to feel everything without being able to verbally ask for help or their specific needs. Navigating their world is an ongoing and emotionally draining process for young children.

From year one to two, changing significantly. Young children up to the age of 1 year, express strong feelings of discomfort, comfort and pleasure, find comfort in familiarity, get upset if they lose a toy, and express several different emotions overall. By age two children show a sense of pride for their accomplishments, they express more negative feelings, and show pleasure in mastering skills, as well as asserting a strong since of independence and strength.

To help aid caregivers in taking care of children during this time period understanding resilience and temperament is important. A child’s temperament is their behavior traits they possess which develop overtime but are seen early on as children are more expressive. Understanding that children are not adults and their point of view and feelings are new to them can teach caregivers to be patient when handling positive and negative behaviors. A childes resilience is their ability to overcome obstacles and challenges. In a sense teaching and learning how to care for children takes its own kind of resilience and therefore planning and incorporating effective strategies and allowing children to fight their own battles can help them build a good, and strong sense of character as they grow.