https://padlet.com/al1002301/2bvrhvzmr9mywyd3 EGP209 - Child Development project 4 Amber Luby en-us 2022-11-28 15:01:37 UTC 2022-11-29 20:30:40 UTC hello@padlet.com al1002301 https://padlet.com/al1002301/2bvrhvzmr9mywyd3/wish/2400454284 Overview
- Preschoolers' self-concept consists of observational characteristics like their name and physical appearance
- At around 3 1/2 years old, they will describe themselves with their emotions (which shows an understanding of psychological characteristics)

Parenting with the brain in mind
- Our brain is shaped by experience
- Parents can influence the brain by talking about experiences, nurturing a sense of courage, limiting screen time, spending time as a family, and doing education sports and activities.

The two hemispheres
- Left hemisphere: logical, literal, and linguistics
- Right hemisphere: nonverbal, big picture, influenced by body and lower brain areas (receive and interpret emotional information)
- Young kids are right brain dominant
- Kids will ask "why" when they are starting to use their left brain
- We want both sides to work together

Developing a moral child
- Clear and consistent rules
- Fair punishment
- Rules that are explained
- Physical punishments foster aggression

Five ingredients of intelligence
- Desire to explore: children learn through environment, experience sensory observations, make predictions about observations, design experiments, and evaluate their test, and use innovators DNA (connections between concepts, "what if", desire to tinker and experiment)
- Self-control: executive function is a better predictor of academic success than IQ
- Creativity: able to perceive new relationships and associate creativity with risk taking
- Verbal communication: important for human intelligence, 1000 words known by 3, and we're born with the capacity to speak any language
- Interpreting nonverbal communication: extract social information by examining face and body

Keys to playtime
- Amount of playtime shrunk by 1/4
- More time is spent in school and doing work
- Only 11 hours per week was spent playing by kids
- "Making baby smart" industry has grown, making play seem less important
- Benefits of play: more creative, better language, better problem solving, better memory, less stress, and more social skills]]> 2022-11-28 15:54:14 UTC https://padlet.com/al1002301/2bvrhvzmr9mywyd3/wish/2400454284 al1002301 https://padlet.com/al1002301/2bvrhvzmr9mywyd3/wish/2400454516 Kids identify moods and emotions and match the emoji to the correct picture.

Cognitive Benefits
- With a wide vocabulary of emotion language, kids are better able to pinpoint what they are experiencing.
- Emotional understanding is vital to emotional intelligence.
- The brain cannot learn while in a heightened state of emotion, so allowing the feeling to come and go is important.

Social and Emotional
- Being able to identify, understand, express and manage feelings provides long term benefits to mental health and wellbeing.
- Playing gives toddlers a chance to express and manage their feelings.
- Developing a healthy acceptance of feelings comes from making space for strong emotions and validating experience.
- Developing self-awareness around calming things can occur once a child learns how to identify their emotions.
- Expressing ourselves often makes people less likely to engage in negative coping patterns, which leads to mental health concerns.

At Home Strategies
- Talk about feelings. 
- Develop vocabulary. 
- Talk about if you like or dislike certain feelings and why.]]> 2022-11-28 15:54:22 UTC https://padlet.com/al1002301/2bvrhvzmr9mywyd3/wish/2400454516 al1002301 https://padlet.com/al1002301/2bvrhvzmr9mywyd3/wish/2400454694 Read the emotion stories and match them to the correct puppet.

Cognitive Benefits
- A wide vocabulary of emotion language allows kids to be better at pinpointing what it is they are experiencing.
- Emotional intelligence comes from the understanding of emotions.
- Brains can’t learn in a heightened state of emotion, so being able to let feelings come and go is essential.

Social and Emotional
- Identifying, understanding, expressing, and managing your feelings allows you to experience long term benefits to your mental health and wellbeing.
- Toddler play allows the child to express and manage their feelings.
- A healthy acceptance of feelings comes from feeling safe having strong emotions and validating your experiences.
- Once a child can identify their emotions, they can begin to develop self-awareness around what soothes them.
- Expressing ourselves in a routine manner makes us less likely to engage in negative coping patterns.

At Home Strategies
- Read a story and talk about the emotions in the story.
- Talk about when you have felt that feeling/emotion.
- Allow your child to talk about their connections to the feelings in the story.]]> 2022-11-28 15:54:29 UTC https://padlet.com/al1002301/2bvrhvzmr9mywyd3/wish/2400454694 al1002301 https://padlet.com/al1002301/2bvrhvzmr9mywyd3/wish/2400455037 Assist kids in creating a feelings monster.

Cognitive Benefits
- Being able to pinpoint what they are experiencing is easier with a wide vocabulary of emotion language.
- Emotional understanding is key to emotional intelligence.
- The brain cannot learn in a heightened state of emotion, which makes allowing feelings to come and go is vital.

Social and Emotional
- Kids who identify, understand, express and manage their feelings experience benefits to their mental health and wellbeing.
- Playing with your kid allows them to express their feelings and practice managing them.
- Understanding emotions and validating experiences allows your child to develop a healthy acceptance of their feelings.
- Once a child can identify their emotions, they can develop self-awareness around what calms them.
- Using negative coping patterns can be avoided if expressing our ourselves becomes routine.

At Home Strategies
- Talk about the feelings words and connect them to the facial expression that is made when having that feeling.
- Talk about times you have felt different feelings.
- Talk about how feelings can change.]]> 2022-11-28 15:54:42 UTC https://padlet.com/al1002301/2bvrhvzmr9mywyd3/wish/2400455037 al1002301 https://padlet.com/al1002301/2bvrhvzmr9mywyd3/wish/2400466771 Read the story, “I’m NOT just a Scribble” and create scribble characters for different emotions.

Cognitive Benefits
- A wide vocabulary of emotion language allows kids to be better at pinpointing what they are experiencing.
- Emotional understanding is a vital part of emotional intelligence.
- Being able to let feelings come and go allows the brain to be calm and learn because your brain can’t learn while in a heightened state of emotion.

Social and Emotional
- Kids who can identify, understand, express and manage their feelings experience benefits to their mental health and wellbeing.
- Kids express and manage their feelings through play.
- When parents make space for their child’s emotions and validate their experience, their child develops a healthy acceptance of their feelings.
- After being able to identify their emotions, kids can begin to develop self-awareness around what calms them.
- Expressing ourselves often helps us avoid engaging in negative coping patterns.

At Home Strategies
- Talk about what faces look like during different feelings.
- Talk about sounds that go with different feelings.]]> 2022-11-28 16:01:08 UTC https://padlet.com/al1002301/2bvrhvzmr9mywyd3/wish/2400466771 al1002301 https://padlet.com/al1002301/2bvrhvzmr9mywyd3/wish/2400476130 https://www.healthline.com/health/mental-health/social-emotional-learning-important

"Why Social-Emotional Learning Is So Important for Kids Right Now." Healthline, 28 Apr 2022. https://www.healthline.com/health/mental-health/social-emotional-learning-important ]]> 2022-11-28 16:06:12 UTC https://padlet.com/al1002301/2bvrhvzmr9mywyd3/wish/2400476130 al1002301 https://padlet.com/al1002301/2bvrhvzmr9mywyd3/wish/2401024201 What is SEL?
-  An educational concept that helps kids gain skills in important areas beyond core school subjects. It helps kids identify their feelings, understand and communicate with others, build strong relationships, and make good, empathetic decisions.

Why is SEL important and needed?
- Teaching and working on social skills in children is a vital building block in their development. Social awareness and knowledge of emotions is important to a child's understanding of themselves and others. After COVID-19 and doing school virtually, children need to learn these skills more than ever. Usually, these skills are developed through school and natural interactions with other peers, but when COVID made school online, children could not interact with their peers since they were at extreme risk of getting this disease, as their immune systems are sensitive. Some children now need to learn social skills and how to understand others' emotions.]]> 2022-11-28 23:25:41 UTC https://padlet.com/al1002301/2bvrhvzmr9mywyd3/wish/2401024201