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Development of Self and Social Understanding

Factors Influencing Self-Perceptions

  • Children base their self-perceptions on past behaviors.
  • Other factors that influence a child's sense of self: adults, peers and social groups.

Sense of Self & Purpose

Ethnicity & Culture

- Children develop knowledge, beliefs, judgements, and feelings about themselves

-Helps children find niche in the world, a place where they feel capable, cared for, and respected.

  • Children absorb information they hear from parents and caregivers about there different ethnic affiliations.
  • By kindergarten and first grade children start to be more aware that their background is different from their classmates.
  • Positive and negative

Enhancing Child's Sense of Self

Gender

Activity

  • Communicate a genuine interest in the child's well being
  • Give a warm greeting at the beginning of the day
  • Compliment children on a special talent, new skill or exceptional effort
  • Ask children to talk about important events in their lives
  • Be a good listener

~ By an early age children already know the differences between a "boy" and a "girl."

~ Biology, the environment, and ones brain all play a role in the diversion of 'male' and 'female' for children going through puberty.

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