id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-2444 Social emotional development - Wikipedia .html text/html 7115 747 56 It is a gradual, integrative process through which children acquire the capacity to understand, experience, express, and manage emotions and to develop meaningful relationships with others.[1] As such, social emotional development encompasses a large range of skills and constructs, including, but not limited to: self-awareness, joint attention, play, theory of mind (or understanding others' perspectives), self-esteem, emotion regulation, friendships, and identity development. Throughout toddlerhood, caregivers remain important for the emotional development and socialization of their children, through behaviors such as: labeling their child's emotions, prompting thought about emotion (e.g., "why is the turtle sad?"), continuing to provide alternative activities/distractions, suggesting coping strategies, and modeling coping strategies.[7] Caregivers who use such strategies and respond sensitively to children's emotions tend to have children who are more effective at emotion regulation, are less fearful and fussy, more likely to express positive emotions, easier to soothe, more engaged in environmental exploration, and have enhanced social skills in the toddler and preschool years.[7] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-2444.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-2444.txt