Emotional development
Emotional development is the development of the Childs ability to control their feelings. Emotions are very hard for a child to express; they usually use facial expressions to show how they feel. There are good emotions and negative emotions for example; contentment, humour, eagerness, love and delight are positive emotions, whereas anger, jealousy, fear, hate, sadness and depression are negative emotions. These emotions can be shown in different ways. If we are happy, then we laugh or smile, if we are frightened, we may cry or scream. Our emotions are influenced by our inborn temperament, which depends on the genes a child inherits. For example some children are naturally excitable. It also depends on their environment, which is the surroundings their in and the conditions they grow up in. finally it is influenced by the child’s state of health. So when a baby is ill they will have different feelings to when they are feeling well. There is another factor that in most cases affects some of the child’s emotions and this is whether the child is a boy or a girl because boys are taught to hide their emotions whereas girls are taught to show how they feel and to express their emotions. For proper emotional development a child needs the love and affection of their parents, family, other adults it depends on and perhaps friends. The feeling of being wanted and the feeling of belonging help, as do the opportunities to feel a sense of achievement and to make people proud of them. Being independent makes a child’s development more rapid and feeling secure and confident. Also if the child is given special attention and treated as an individual it may be a happier child.