Chapter 10

Understanding Behavioral Individuality Resources

Developing Social/Emotional Skills

Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning

Temperament:

Temperament-Based Intervention: Reexamining Goodness of Fit

Resilience:

Resilience

I Am Safe and Secure: Promoting Resilience in Young Children

Building Resilience in Young Children

Zero to Three: Building Resilience

Infant and Toddler Resilience: Knowledge, Predictions, Policy and Practice 

Maslow

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs Fully Explained:  https://www.simplypsychology.org/maslow.html

Self-Regulation: The Cornerstone of Early Childhood Development

Developing Young Children’s Self-Regulation Through Everyday Experiences

The Role of Co-Regulating in Building Self-Regulation Skills

Developing School Readiness: 0-12 Months

Developing School Readiness: 12-24 Months

Developing School Readiness: 24-36 Months

Encouraging Infants and Toddlers’ Self-Confidence and Self-Control

     As a caregiver for infants and toddlers, it is important for you to continuously promote and encourage self-confidence and self-control in the children you care for. Your interactions with and actions around the children will influence how they feel about those who care for them and the world they live in. These feelings then directly influence how they feel about themselves. Your behaviors and communications also teach infants and toddlers to develop self-control. This ability gradually grows as they get older, but also requires guidance and modeling from caregivers.

    The following links will take you to Zero to Three’s website where they provide specific information about promoting self-confidence and self-control in infants and toddlers. These links offer excellent and simple suggestions to help caregivers fulfill this important role:

Infants (0-12 months):

Self-Confidence: http://main.zerotothree.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ter_par_012_selfconfidence

Self-Control:

http://main.zerotothree.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ter_par_012_selfcontrol

Toddlers (12-24 months):

Self-Confidence: http://main.zerotothree.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ter_par_1224_selfconfidence

Self-Control: http://main.zerotothree.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ter_par_1224_selfcontrol

Toddlers (24-36 months):

Self-Confidence: http://main.zerotothree.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ter_par_2436_selfconfidence

Self-Control:

http://main.zerotothree.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ter_par_2436_selfcontrol

Additional Readings

Branscomb, K., & Goble, C. (2008). Infants and toddlers in group care: Feeding practices that foster emotional health. Young ChildrenNovember 2008, 28-33.

Crosser, S. (2008). Do you know how I feel? Empathy and the young child. Early Childhood News. Retrieved from

http://www.earlychildhoodnews.com/earlychildhood/article_view.aspx?ArticleID=242

Gillespie, L., & Hunter, A. (2008). Emotional flooding: Using empathy to help babies manage strong emotions. Beyond the JournalSeptember 2008, 1-2.

Gillespie, L., & Seibel, N. (2006). Self-regulation: The cornerstone of early childhood development. Beyond the JournalJuly 2006, 1-6.

Gonzalez-Mena, J. (2007). What do to for a fussy baby: A problem solving approach. Beyond the Journal, September 2007, 1-6.

 

Additional Websites

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs Fully Explained:  https://www.simplypsychology.org/maslow.html

Temperament and Personality Examples of Thomas and Chess’s Dimensions: http://psych.colorado.edu/~colunga/P4684/temperament.pdf

Tips and Tools for Promoting Social/Emotional Development in Infants and Toddlers: http://www.zerotothree.org/child-development/social-emotional-development/tips-and-tools-promoting-social-emotional-development.html

Zero to Three: Development of Social-Emotional Skills:

http://www.zerotothree.org/child-development/social-emotional-development/social-emotional-development.html

  • Information is divided up into three age groups: Birth-12 months, 12-24 months and 24-36 months

Zero to Three: Promoting Social-Emotional Development:

http://www.zerotothree.org/child-development/social-emotional-development/

The Visual Cliff Experiment (Social Referencing): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6cqNhHrMJA

Kids Mental Health Information Portal – Behavioral and Emotional Disorders: http://www.kidsmentalhealth.org/childrens-behavioral-and-emotional-disorders/

Temperament.com – Understanding Behavioral Individuality: https://www.b-di.com/#