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Nurturing Social Awareness in Preschoolers

Explore the social-emotional development of preschoolers, including developing initiative, showing responsibility, learning gender roles, and managing emotions such as fear, anxiety, anger, and jealousy. Discover ways to support their growth and understanding.

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Nurturing Social Awareness in Preschoolers

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  1. Social-Emotional Development of the preschooler Chapter 17 Page 404

  2. Developing Social Awareness • Social awareness grows during preschool years • Becoming more dependable and can complete simple tasks at home

  3. Taking the Initiative • More independent • Improved abilities • Limitless energy • Never ending curiosity • Talk a lot and loudly • Initiative = ability to think or act without being urged • Guilt = blaming self for something done wrong

  4. Children develop initiative when they are allowed to ask questions • Experiment • Explore • Adults do need to step in and set limits

  5. Showing Responsibility • Takes time and calls for experience • Adults can help by: • Become responsible by setting examples • Give children chances to learn • Follow through with praise or other reward for success

  6. Learning Gender Roles • Important part of social awareness • Learn how to fit into certain social groups • Gender-role learning is learning what behavior is expected of males and females • Children (age 3yrs) know there is a difference between boys and girls

  7. How Does Gender Role Develop? • Learn roles by how others treat them • How they see other in their male and female roles • Sex typing – treating boys and girls differently • Difference in clothing worn • Toys received • Ways parents react to boys and girls • Other families don’t distinguish a difference

  8. Cultural Factors • Society’s view of male and female roles is not as clearly defined • Traditional gender roles: • Male more aggressive, economic head of family • Female as wife and mother who stays home

  9. Sexual stereotyping – statement or hint that men and women always do or should do certain tasks • Found in books, TV shows, some conversations • Different cultures/groups hold different beliefs about gender roles

  10. Extending Social Relations • Increase social learning by: • Sharing, controlling anger, thinking of other’s feelings, and joint efforts • Adults still important • Serve as role models • Self-control, manners, model relationships, etc

  11. Other Children Become More Important • Siblings and peers are more important • Peers – unrelated children who are near the same age • Have fun playing with other child, while others do not

  12. Making Friends • Depends on child’s friendliness • Ability to follow group rules • Lack of dependence on adults • Prefers friend of same gender • May be self-centered view on friendship • Friends play with, help you and share • 2 -3 form a closed circle • Too many friends may not get enough attention

  13. Learning from Play Groups • Get new ideas • Play with more than one child • Become less self-centered in peer groups • Children learn that friends are fun

  14. Feeling and Controlling Emotions • Still react to common childlike stressors • Stressors = situations that cause stresses • Short separations from adults • Fear of monsters

  15. Dependency • Emotional dependency = the act of seeking attention, approval, comfort, and contact • Preschoolers are more likely to accept comfort from strangers • May ask an adult to button their coat, etc

  16. Fear & Anxiety • New fear and anxieties replace previous ones • Boys have a greater variety of fears • Girls have fewer fears but more intense

  17. Fears Common Features • Fear of the known • Vacuum cleaner • Fears of physical injury • Death by fire, auto, accident • Fear of pain • Medical or dental • Anxiety of general nature • Tornado, thunderstorm

  18. Anger and Aggression • Begin at 10 months • Hit and bite less but threaten and yell more • Increased language skills help • Anger and aggression towards siblings and peers more than adults

  19. Causes of Anger and Aggression • Children often use aggression to get their way • Or intentional hurt someone • Get to the bottom of it • Get help if needed

  20. Jealousy • Begins when people realize they must share with others love, attention, possessions and time • Most common time for jealousy is when a new brother or sister is born • Babies take time, they translate this as love

  21. Repressed jealousy = jealousy that is not directly expressed and may even be denied • Show this through nightmares or physical problems such as upset stomach, headaches, fevers and a change in appetite

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