6: Social and Emotional Development: Birth to Age 3
In this lesson:
6-1 Early Social and Emotional Development: Relationships
This section covers two of the four subdomains in the framework’s infant and toddler Social and Emotional Development domain:
- Relationships with Adults
- Relationships with Other Children
6-2 Early Social and Emotional Development: Emotions and Identity
This section covers these two subdomains in the infant and toddler Social and Emotional Development domain in the Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework:
- Emotional Functioning
- Sense of Identity and Belonging
6-3 Supporting Early Social and Emotional Development
This section covers ways that adults can support children’s early social and emotional development, including:
- Responsiveness: sensitivity and synchrony
- Modeling: behavioral actions and reactions
- Emotion language exposure: Increasing children’s emotional vocabulary
