Child Social Interaction

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It is important for children to be active and social with other people including children and adults. This prepares them and teaches them how to interact and to be as a person and how to interact later in life with different personalities. Without having the interaction, like the Romanian children in the 1970s, they become withdrawn. The children that did get adopted, when they were young were still able to grow and learn the cognitive and emotional skills that children need to learn at a young age. As the other children got older and were not adopted these skills did not grow and they had permanent defects (Cacioppo & Freberg, 2013). When children grow, socialized with others and fed good nutrients, most of the time, you have a healthy child that understands emotions and can make decisions. They learn to trust other people, and this builds an emotional connection to them. They also learn that they are a person, an individual and do not have to like or dislike what someone else does. They become their own person. They start building and recognizing the different emotions they have and what they are for. They learn what happy, sad, frustrations are and find things they like that comfort them during these times (Child Development Tracker: Social and Emotional Growth, 2016). …show more content…

They become aware of others feelings too. They see the happy or the sad and are able to recognize what to do, like comfort when someone is sad. They also are able to observe the adults for corrections in the children's behavior during this time so they can learn what is right and what is wrong and what is acceptable (Child Development Tracker: Social and Emotional Growth,

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