Topic > Philosophies of Early Childhood Education - 1152

This is demonstrated by my belief that each child's behavior, actions, and knowledge are influenced through social interactions with the world and people around them. Interactions and relationships help promote the development of a child's communication, cognitive, and motor skills (MacNaughton and Williams, 2008). Children are able to learn important social behaviors needed in life through playing with others and developing relationships with adults and other children. Gonzalez-Mena (2011), suggests that during the early childhood years, children are able to learn key social skills that will impact their understanding of how to act in society. For example, children learn to share, cooperate, and respect others and their things through social interaction. Additionally, children who develop good social skills have higher self-esteem and are more willing to interact with their environment. One of the most important interactions is that between children and their peers, which represents an important step in promoting social and emotional development. Children must have the opportunity to interact with other children in open observation and then imitate what they have learned as a way to develop new skills or behaviors from the way other children act in situations (Gonzalez–Mena and Widmeyer -Eyer, 2012). The main one