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Life Skills: Part 3

Attachment and Contribution Life Skills

Summary

1. Attachment and contribution are important skills that are needed to be successful later in life. There are six total.
2. Emotional and social domains are two of the four developmental domains needed for academic and social success.
3. Factors that can potentially delay development include stress, trauma, and unsecure attachments, and other negative influences in the child's environment.

California Preschool Learning Foudations

Foundations in Social and Emotional Domain

Attachment and Social/Emotional Development Social Interaction1.0 Interactions with Adults1.1 Interacts with familiar adults comfortably and competently, especially in familiar settings2.0 Interactions with Peers2.1 Interact easily with peers in shared activities that occasionally become cooperative efforts.

These foundations, describe what all young children typically learn with appropriate support (CAPLF, 2008)

California Preschool Learning Foudations

Foundations in Social and Emotional Domain

Contribution and Social/ Emotional Development Self 2.0 Self-Regulation2.1 Need adult guidance in managing thier attention, feelings, and impulses and shows some effort at self-control.3.0 Social and Emotional Understanding3.1 Seek to understand people’s feelings and behavior, notice diversity in human characteristics, and are interested in how people are similar and different.4.0 Empathy and Caring4.1 Demonstrate concern for the needs of others and people in distress.

These foundations, describe what all young children typically learn with appropriate support (CAPLF, 2008)

Attachment and Social and Emotional Domain Alignment

• When there are strong secure attachments, children are more socially and academically successful.
• They can interact with adults and peers and are likely to haver fewer conflicts.
• Children who may experience unsecure attachments may have or have higher risks of behavioral problems.

Contribution and Social and Emotional Learning Domain Alignment

• Contribution here is used to focus on guiding children and becoming a part of their community and societies throughout their lives.
• Helping children successfully be a part of society they need to learning to be empathetic or sympathtic and caring when needed.
• This skill also helps children build their confidence and may be more willing to take risks, or taking initivative and helping others.

Attachment

• Attachment are the strong postive bonds or relationships child build with close adults in and outside of the home.

• Children who have been shown to have strong positive attchments show higher levels of academic, social, and emotional success.

Contribution

Contribution, children contributing to their families and communites and being a productive part of society. Factors that can be dangerous if children don't or can't achieve this life skill, are trauma, stress, and other potenially negative influences.

Chidren who have shown to be equipped with stress management skills, have more postive benefits on the families well-being. Children can feel a sense of accomplishment when they learn to help others, and understanding thier feelings are different than their own.

Contribution

Fun way to get children involved in their enviroment, having different bins for recycling, trash, and paper. This not only creates an early habit of taking care of their environment. It also helps children practice sorting and differentiating the differences of materials.

Classroom Environment

AttachmentTo help build stronger bonds in the classroom, creating calming corners and relaxation areas, can help when children just need time or need indiviual support.

Conclusions

Things that can help overcome troubling factors of development

• Creating and keeping strong secure bonds with children.
• Show interests in their interests, to help find or build potential/ talent.
• Children with stress management skills have higher levels of family well-being.
• Successfully accomplishing these skills, lead to higher levels of achievement later in life.​

Attachment and Contribution go hand in hand with one another for a successful development. The social and emotional development is also crucial for children's development, as many factors that can be potentially dangerous to development.

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