Social development in Birth, Infancy and Early Childhood

Play is one of the most important interactions a child has.

This is where they learn skills such as communications, sharing and cooperation.

This also helps them develop a sense of self.

In birth, infancy and early childhood the following are INCREASED by Social Development:

• Confidence
• Manners
• Pleasantness
• Having siblings
• Felling happy, safe and secure
• Previous positive experience
• Practice
• Play time
• Interacting - with adults
• Making friends
• Role models
• Nursery/ playgroup/ mother-toddler groups/ infant school

In birth, infancy and early childhood the following are DECREASED by Social Development:

• Grief
• Loss
• Feeling insecure
• Feeling not safe
• House burglary
• Possible being an only child
• Neglect
• Previous negative experiences
• Bullying
• Adults not interacting/ showing attention