1. Emotional Development
First Year

2. Emotional Development
Deals with children’s changing feelings about themselves, others and the world.

3. Babies learn Behavior by:
Routine
Consistency

4. Babies Thrive On:
Monotony: (sameness in tone or pitch)

5. How do babies learn trust?
Responsive Care: the communicate their needs, usually through crying, and care-giver provides for that need.
Children need to trust that people around them care and that life is logical and consistent.

6. Responsive Care vs. Spoiling
Why is responsive care not spoiling?
Responsive Care = tending to the child’s needs
Cannot Spoil a “newborn”
Spoiling later is providing far beyond the child’s “needs”

7. Positive Emotions
Delight
Elation
Affection

8. Negative Emotions
Distress
Anger
Disgust
Fear

9. The most obvious sign of emotion is:
CRYING

10. Tricks to crying Try the following to help the baby stop crying:
Rocking
Change Positions
Talk softly or sing
Distract (redirect attention)
Toy
Pacifier