However, further research is needed to encompass international research perspectives by examining peer play and relationships in different early childhood cultural contexts. Recent research offers theoretical v
By situating play as individual development within a socio-cultural environment the relationship between children's pretend play ability and social peer play interactions are considered within early childhood development and resilience literature.doi:10.1080/21594937.2012.741432Casey, Siobhan A...
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Whereas once we may have thought that peers began to have an influence on children during the primary school years and adolescence, it now seems possible that very early interactions with peers at home and in child-care settings could set the stage for later problems. At the sam...
Peer relations and interactions differ with age across early childhood. By age two, children engage peers frequently (Rossano et al., 2022), demonstrate empathic helping in response to subtle cues (Svetlova et al., 2010) and show slight preferences for same-sex social partners (LaFreniere et ...
1.1. Attention-getting in adult–child interactions Attention-getting is a basic way of initiating interaction; it constitutes young children's early communicative repertoires, and attests to their developing skills in intersubjectivity (Brown, 2012; Kidwell and Zimmerman, 2007). Research shows that ev...
Essential to psychosocial adjustment in early childhood and well beyond, children’s relations with their peers play a major role in their overall development. Promoting social and emotional competencies and intervening in cases of difficulty very early
In the preschool years, children learn to use ToM in social interactions to build and maintain their social relationships (Fink et al., 2014). Preschool children with low-level ToM may be rejected by their peers because they cannot recognize the harm caused by certain behaviors to their peers...
most children are positive and eager to help care for the baby and exhibit little or no disruptive behaviour.62By early childhood siblings’ positive, friendly interactions often outweigh their negative interactions.73Most studies of siblings in early childhood have employed naturalistic observa...
Participants were 1364 children from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development's Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development. Anxious solitude was assessed by child care providers from 2 to 4.5 years, maternal sensitivity was observed during mother–child interactions from 2 ...