samantha foster's List: emotional development

• Emotional state to aim for
  Positive emotional states support a relaxed and open stance to  life. They help children feel confident and successful, to face life with  courage and not fear.
• help your children adopt an affirming attitude, even while experiencing the  stressful, pressuring nature of the real world.
• An open attitude -- plus acceptance, humor, joy -- are certainly what you want  to help them develop.
• Emotions are learned

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• A  child’s development includes both physical and emotional stages. We frequently  concentrate on the stages of our child’s physical development and have little  insight or understanding about the importance of our child’s emotional  development. Understanding the stages of your child’s emotional development will  help you to make sense of your child’s behaviour. It will help you to think  about and acknowledge how your child might be feeling at a particular time and  enable you to help him/her to work through what has been experienced. It is  important to remember that each child develops in his/her own unique way  depending on personality and at different rates from each other.

   

  The following are guidelines for the  emotional developmental stages of children: