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Recognize infant and toddler social-emotional milestones. Identify how adults can support the social-emotional skills of infants and toddlers. Discuss what to do if you are concerned about the social-emotional development of an infant or toddler in your care.
Infants and toddlers need the support of nurturing and responsive adults to develop socially and emotionally. Below are ways you can promote social-emotional development in the infants and toddlers in your care: Be affectionate and nurturing. Gently hold, rock, and cuddle infants and toddlers often.
A well-planned, high-quality environment should support the social-emotional development and learning of infants and toddlers. This lesson describes how your learning environment can promote social-emotional growth through routines, materials, and individualized care.
This lesson will help you understand how infants and toddlers develop socially and emotionally. You will learn about social-emotional milestones and what to do if you are concerned about the social-emotional development of an infant or toddler in your care.
Identify activities that can develop social-emotional skills in infants and toddlers. Explore strategies that support the social-emotional development of infants and toddlers in your care. Learn ways of supporting families as they promote the social-emotional development of infants and toddlers.
Reflect on what it means to be a responsive infant and toddler caregiver. Identify how to support resiliency in infants and toddlers. Brainstorm how to cultivate and nurture social-emotional competence in your early care and learning environment and program.
The Social-Emotional Development: Infant to School-Age handout is a quick guide that details the development of social-emotional skills across childhood. Share this resource with staff so that they can learn to recognize the wide variety of ways children develop socially and emotionally.
Social-emotional milestones focus on children’s developing abilities to regulate their attention, emotions, and behavior, and to form positive relationships with adults and peers. The chart below provides a closer look at how preschoolers develop social-emotional skills at different ages.
Explore resources that provide information about supporting social-emotional development across mixed-ages of children (infants, toddlers, preschool, and school-age). Discuss how to build a sense of community among the children in your family child care setting.
Identify infant and toddler physical and motor developmental milestones and ways to support development for all infants and toddlers. Describe the brain’s role in infant and toddler physical development. Recognize influences of physical growth and development.