Child Development - Unit 1

• Emotional Development 


  How children develop their sense of self, their feelings towards themselves and others and how they cope with their feelings
• Social Development 


  How children develop skills and attributed that enable them to live within the family and community
• Emotional Development

  • Attachment
  • Feelings
  • Self-Esteem
  • Self Identity
  • Morality
  • Security
• Social Development

  • Sharing
  • Confidence
  • Turn taking
  • Friendships
  • Wider relationships
  • Independance
• Emotional Development - Birth to 6 months

  Already showing feelings through expressions, show pleasure when given attention.
• Emotional Development - 6 months to 1 year

  May show distress when main carer leaves, beginning to display likes and dislikes. Often needs comfort toy or blanket to help cope with emotions
• Emotional Development - 1 to 2 years

  Moods tend to change quickly, still dependant on comfort toy and like reassurance from an adult. Easily frustrated; alternate between being clingy and rejecting help
• Emotional Development - 2 to 3 years

  Can express how they feel, often have tantrums when they’re misunderstood. Becoming more independent can often be clingy. May show signs of jealousy of other children.
• Emotional Development - 3 to 5 years

  Developing a sense of morality and can understand and follow rules. Start to have best friends and show affection and increasing sensitivity to others, they understand right from wrong.
• Emotional Development - 5 to 7 years

  Show sympathy to others and begin to understand the concept of fairness. Beginning to compare themselves to friends and developing their self-image. More able to control feelings
• How might emotional development impact cognitive development?

  Inability to cope with feelings may affect attention, memory and thought processes
• How might emotional development impact social development?

  Self-image, both positive and negative, impacts on a child’s ability to relate to others
• How might emotional development impact growth?

  Anxiety may impact on health, growth rate and psychological development
• Social development : Developing friendships - Up to age 3

  Children are still reliant on attachments to their main carer or siblings
• Social development : Developing friendships - From age 3

  Children take turns, communicate easily and enjoy playing with other children
• Social development : Developing friendships - After age 4

  Children choose their own friends, learn to interact positively and cooperation
• Social development : Developing friendships - From age 5

  Often choose friends of the same sex, enjoy spending time with wider family and friendship groups
• How might social development impact emotional development?

  Through interactions children learn how to manage their own feelings, and recognise feelings of others
• How might social development impact cognitive development?

  Through social play children explore new ideas, and materials. They learn from other children who are more skilled
• How might social development impact growth/physical development?

  Children with positive social development join in with games and physical activities that promote health and growth.
• How might social development impact speech and language?

  Through interactions children learn new vocabulary and learn how to listen and express ideas.
• Bowlby - Separation Anxiety 


  A set of behaviours/actions which occur when a child is distressed as a result of the person/s they are attached to being absent
• Bowlby‘s theory of attachment 


  Bowlby noticed that there was a pattern to the way children reacted if they were separated from their main attachments , this pattern is often referred to as separation anxiety.
• Monotropy - Bowlby 


  He believed that babies need to from one main attachment that would be special and of more importance to the child than any other, most cases it would be the mother but it could also be formed with the father or another person.
• Bowlby - Critical period


  He believed that babies have to form their first attachment within the first year of their lives, and that during a child’s first four years, prolonged separation would cause long-term psychological damage
• Bowlby - Parenting


  he found that simply meeting a child’s physical care, and needs is not enough for healthy growth and development, children need to have a main attachment in their lives to give them consistent support.