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Emotional Development 4 – 6 year olds

Explore the emotional patterns of 4, 5, and 6-year-olds, from assertiveness and independence to fears, stress, and ways to support their emotional growth. Discover how children at these ages navigate self-confidence, fear, jealousy, and stress. Gain insights into handling stress and promoting emotional well-being in young children.

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Emotional Development 4 – 6 year olds

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  1. Emotional Development 4 – 6 year olds

  2. General Emotional Patterns • 4 year olds • Assert independence • Self-centered • Impatient • Defiant • Boastful • Argue more often • Bossy

  3. General Emotional Patterns • 4 year olds, cont. • Loving and affectionate • Need and seek parental approval • Enjoy people laughing at their jokes • Dislike people laughing at their mistakes • Important for them to “no longer” be seen as “a baby” • Difficult phase of emotional development

  4. General Emotional Patterns • 5 year old • Quieter period of emotional development • Practical • Sympathetic • Serious • Realistic • Enjoy slapstick humor

  5. General Emotional Patterns • 5 year old cont. • Carry on discussions • Ask meaningful questions • Conform to rules more easily • Adult criticism is very hard for them • Patient • Persistent • Generous and conscientious

  6. General Emotional Patterns • 6 year old • Stubborn • Quarrelsome • Resent directions (they know everything) • Center of their own universe • At their worst w/their own parents • Rapidly changing moods

  7. General Emotional Patterns • 6 year olds cont. • Love and hate; accept and reject; smile and storm – for NO apparent reason • Learn to appreciate humorous situations and jokes • Faced w/ the task to find their status outside the home • Crave praise and approval • Easily hurt and discouraged

  8. Specific Emotions • Self – confidence • Improves w/the accomplishment of new tasks • Success at facing unfamiliar situations • Develop initiative – motivation to accomplish more • Anger • 4 year old – physical fighting, lasts longer, often threaten and attempt to “get even” • 5 year old – more likely to hurt feelings of others than physcially • 6 year old – more stinging words, tease, insult, nag and make fun

  9. Specific Emotions • Fear • They have well developed imaginations • Sensitive and insecure children are more prone to fears • Help overcome fear by: • Accept the fear • Allow expression of fear w/out ridicule • Ability to face the fear by talking or acting out

  10. Specific Emotions • Jealousy • Sibling rivalry is common at these ages • Parents cannot show favoritism • May take the form of: • Tattling • Criticizing • Lying • Nail-biting • Bed-wetting • tantrums

  11. Children and Stress • Children lead stressful lives • Worry about everything • 1 in 3 children suffers from severe stress • May cause: • Stomachaches and headaches • Moodiness and irritability • Trouble eating or sleeping

  12. Children and Stress • Handling stress • Find the cause • Give chances to get rid of tension • Read books about the issue • Maintain normal limits on behavior

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