Toddlers: Social And Emotional Behavior

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[Page Break]Imagine a daycare class room for one and two year olds filled with toys that they are interested in along with peers that are their age. Social and emotional development can be affected by different environments and the children’s overall development. Based on the movie “Toddlers: Social and Emotional Development,” it referred to toddlers that were between the ages of one and two years. So take a young girl who is a toddler and it is her first day being dropped off in the daycare class room by her mother, but usually it’s her father that drops her off. There are many factors that can cause this young toddler to become anti-social and very emotional. In this paper I will discuss how the movie relayed social and emotional development in toddlers between the ages one and two years of age. Usually Toddlers first attachment is their parents as during this young time in their lives they have grown to trust their parents and therefore are usually attached to them. One theorist by the name of Bowlby was discussed in the movie and he is known for his attachment theory. He believes that when the child is between the ages of 6-24 months the child has a clear cut attachment. Which I feel shows that the child is clearly attached to their parent and they do not want to be without them. This leads the child to have separation anxiety while away from their parent or caregiver. Separation anxiety depends on “infant temperament, context and adult behavior.” (text page 197) In most cases when a toddler is experiencing this type of anxiety he or she gets upset because their trusted caregiver is leaving them. Like the young toddler as previously mentioned being left at the daycare, she begs and cries for her mother as she drops her off. In this case she is getting upset because her mother is leaving and she is experiencing separation anxiety. Separation anxiety can be
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