FRHD 3040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Gross Motor Skill, Task Management, Fast Mapping

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 3040
• Professor: David Green

Document Summary

Frhd 3040 lecture 9 parent-preschooler interactions. Promoting the young children"s sense of initiative: role of children, endless energy and curiosity, drive to discover, role of parents and other caregivers, support adventurous nature, avoid inhibiting activities. Parental contribution to young children"s self esteem: parental support of behaviours that demonstrate sense of initiative, promoting self esteem and feelings of competence, providing a context that facilitates positive self evaluation. Promotion of emotional development: conversations about emotions, emotional competence contributes to social competence. Labelling emotions: acceptance of positive and negative emotions. Promotion of young children"s self reliance: assistance in mastering a variety of activities. Symbolic thinking: preoperational thought, egocentric in their thinking. Promotion of young children"s cognitive development continued: guided participation. Important for self regulatory behaviours related to cognitive awareness and task management: discussion of children"s strategies when working on a cognitive task, regulation of task complexity.