Manners and etiquette develop over time and are influenced by a child’s emerging ability to read the social cues and meet the behavioral expectations of different groups.
Social skills — or the ways one behaves with and around others — are rooted in a child’s emotional and cognitive development.
Children vary in their innate, genetically determined ability to understand social information and to put social strivings into practice. This inborn ability is called social cognition. Children’s abilities to be successful socially also depend upon how they are feeling inside — whether they feel entirely safe or comfortable in any given setting.
This month, we will discuss our understanding of the connection between how a child feels and how a child acts or behaves. Understanding manners as a behavior like any other may be one way to think about how to best support a child while he or she is developing good etiquette.
Understanding Behavior
This story is from the May 2018 edition of Carolina Parent.
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