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Emotional Development 4 6 year olds
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General Emotional Patterns

• 4 year olds
• Assert independence
• Self-centered
• Impatient
• Defiant
• Boastful
• Argue more often
• Bossy

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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

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General Emotional Patterns

• 5 year old
• Quieter period of emotional development
• Practical
• Sympathetic
• Serious
• Realistic
• Enjoy slapstick humor

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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