Infants (Birth to 12 months)
Infants use of language to relate their needs to caregivers.
What is crying?
Adults keeping unsafe objects out of reach of toddlers, locking up poisonous substances, and providing a safe environment for toddlers' exploration and curiosity.
What is child proofing?
Talking to preschoolers in kind, simple, and honest terms caregivers can support the child's understanding and ability to cope with events.
What is communicating successfully with preschoolers?
One's motivation to work constructively, to be diligent and productive.
What is industry?
A caregiver fosters a healthy emotional bond with an infant that has long-lasting positive effects.
What is secure attachment?
The stage in a child's development where exploration and curiosity outweigh rules and safety.
What is toddlerhood?
A caregiver attentively listening to what a preschool aged child is saying, then reflecting back what the caregiver heard the child saying.
What is active listening?
The school aged child begins to care how they dress, and they become aware of how they are perceived by others.
What is personal identity?
Providing an infant with lots of holding, touching, playing, and talking is essential, not spoiling.
What is critical for brain development and emotional well-being?
Caregivers using kind facial expressions, body language, rich lyrical words when engaging with a toddler.
What is developing language for the child?
The preschooler's ability to control their behavior and impulses when feeling frustrated, mad or sad- essential for success in school and social and emotional development.
What is self-regulation?
School aged children working on a school project in groups of two or more to accomplish a common goal.
What is collaborative or collaboration?
Around this time infants develop cognitive skills and begin to experience separation and stranger anxieties.
What is between six and twelve months?
Toddlers' development when understanding and recognizing image in the mirror as self.
What is 20-24 months onward?
Preschool aged children's ability to see themself as a worthwhile individual.
What is self-esteem?
By this age must be able to rely on the child's inner control.
What is early school ages?
A caregiver provides consistent responses to an infant's cues while gradually developing routines that are socially appropriate and convenient for the caregiver.
What is positive child guidance?
A toddler giving their binky or special comfort item to a visibly sad adult or another child.
What is developing and showing empathy?
Adults facilitate and provide words to describe how a preschool aged child is feeling in a particular moment to help the child develop language skills for social and emotional development.
What is how preschoolers learn to communicate their feelings?
Adults can support early school-age children by respectfully listening to them and their concerns, by facilitating their use of new reading and thinking skills when researching topics that interest them.
What is supporting the early school-age child's self-esteem?