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Early Emotional Support
January 19, 2016
In times of stress, the best thing we can do for each other is to listen with our ears and our hearts and to be assured that our questions are just as important as our answers.
-Fred Rogers
-Fred Rogers
Kay Albrecht's book, Social Emotional Tools for Life, provides strategies for centers to provide crucial social and emotional support for young children. Now KQED News reports on a study reviewed in Child Development that found that the type of emotional support a child receives during their first three and a half years has an effect on education, social life and romantic relationships even 20 or 30 years later:
"Babies and toddlers raised in supportive and caring home environments tended to do better on standardized tests later on, and they were more likely to attain higher degrees as adults. They were also more likely to get along with their peers and feel satisfied in their romantic relationships.
"'It seems like, at least in these early years, the parents' role is to communicate with the child and let them know, 'I'm here for you when you're upset, when you need me. And when you don't need me, I'm your cheerleader,' 'says Lee Raby, a psychologist and postdoctoral researcher at the University of Delaware who led the study."
Shared by Karma Gayleg, World Forum Global Leader from Bhutan
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Comments (3)
Displaying All 3 CommentsKids' World
Bellingham WA, WA, United States
This is something that we have known for many years. It is curious to me the amount of money that is spent to "study" these things when those dollars could be spent to improve the lives of children. Similar concern with state programs
In Washington State we have spent millions to "seat" political departments [DEL],to create and expand qusi government programs and to expand state school Depts, of Early Learning.
Wile little is actually done to improve "reality" for low income children.
The children are pawns in the game of politics.
CSBC
Denver, CO, United States
What I think we need to address head-on is the experts who claim this advice is not appropriate for young children in certain cultural groups in the US. Authoritarian discipline is much more prominent in certain groups, as we all know, and there are several experts - and considerable writings - that claim this is cultural,and therefore OK. It is not, and we need to make sure ALL young children receive this kind of emotional parent support when they are young.
Pennsylvania, United States
"'It seems like, at least in these early years, the parents' role is to communicate with the child and let them know, 'I'm here for you when you're upset, when you need me. And when you don't need me, I'm your cheerleader,'-------I believe that this is always the role of the parent, in the early years, throughout childhood, the teenage years and beyond. This is what a parent does for his/her child.
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