Child Development: Importance of Social and Emotional Behavior in Children

This article discusses the importance of social and emotional behavior in child development. It explains how emotions impact physical health and social behavior. The article also covers Gardner's theory of intelligence and the different types of intelligence.

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Answer to question 1
Intelligence is not related to knowledge but it more about imagination. There are various
theories related to intelligence, in Gardner’s theory of intelligence it was stated that there are
different educational system and everyone has a different style of learning. The idea of
learning cannot be treated as intelligence in a person; it is dependent on how a person solves
the problem in different scenario (Brualdi, 2017). Intelligence depends on bio psychological
potential of a person.
(i) In garden’s principal, there exists several intellectual intelligences but for now we
are discussing about ‘The personal intelligence’ that covers the interpersonal
behaviour of an individual (Niu.edu, 2018). This involves understanding the
emotional behaviour of a person sitting next to us by his/her feelings. Other than
that it also covers the ‘intrapersonal intelligence’ of an individual it is the ability
of a person to know about his/her emotions and feelings. This intelligence helps in
understanding others in a better and a closely manner (Sisk, 2016).
(ii) This intelligence could be used when a person is sitting in a group and the
neighbour sitting next to his/her is depressed or sad. The person should know that
there is something wrong in the emotions of a person hence, he/she should take
steps to console and bring him in better mood. This could be done by involving
them in the group or motivating them to remove the negative impact of emotions
on them (Mayer, Panter & Caruso, 2017). It is not just about the person sitting
next to us, sometimes an individual feel the change in the pattern of behaviour
that may be a positive mood swing or a negative, in that case personal intelligence
is used to solve the problem to describe the individual and provide an anticipation
for future behaviour.

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(iii) There are several other type of intelligence that contributes in improving the
impact of personal intelligence is linguistic intelligence as it deals with playing
with the language and expressing the emotion of wellbeing in a better and an
effective manner. It can be used as a way to express emotions and behavioural
patterns. In addition to this strong linguistic knowledge helps in solving the
personal as well as intra-personal issues by linking the problem and the reasoning
of the solution (Mikaeili & Ghaffari, 2016). This method is useful as it includes
the capability to influence the person who is suffering from outburst of emotions
by using motivational words and creative language to change the emotion of one
person.
Thus it can be stated that intelligence of a person totally depends on the capacity to solve
a problem. Intelligence can be in any field it could be logical-mathematical intelligence
which deals with solving the problem logically. Spatial intelligence of a person reflects
the ability to solve the problem by creating mental images. Thus there exist various types
of learning that results in synaptic connections in different parts of the brain. Lastly, it can
be stated that Gardner’s states that intelligence of a person relies completely on its
potential as every individual have a unique blend of capabilities and skills.
Answer to question 2
In the development phase of children the child should remain happy and healthy.
Development of child depends on social an emotional behaviour of the surroundings.
(i) Social and emotional behaviour is nearly about knowing how to manage the
relations and feelings among different people. This behaviour supports the child to
cope up with all difficult situations and avoid any disease.

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Social and emotional behaviour reflects the ability of child to recognize the
emotions of others and built strong connections in the society (California learning
& development foundations, 2018). It is important to have a positive social and
emotional behaviour among the children as they reflect their success.
The social and emotional behaviour helps an individual to improve the self as well as
social awareness. Thus it can be stated that social-emotional improvement includes the all
the experiences of child and also includes way regarding how to manage the emotions
(Actforlibraries, 2017). This could be done by establishing a positive relationship with
others by both intra- and interpersonal process.
(ii) The social behaviour of the child completely relies on the emotions of a person as
social behaviour can be defined as a way in which an individual interact with
others. The way a person interacts with other depends on their emotional thoughts.
For example when a child is a having a positive emotion with respect to its friends
it will pursue a positive behaviour like hugging or shaking hands. On the other
hand, if a person has negative emotions regarding the other individual they will
find ways to put them down in front of everyone (Chowdhury, 2017). Thus it can

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be started that the social behaviour of a person is the reflection of their emotional
wellbeing. Several examples that reflect the impact of emotions on social
behaviour are child weaving in a crowd is not social behaviour. Social
behaviour is a behaviour that is taken in the society or between groups of people
that includes predation of the behaviour of an individual member of different
social culture (Sampson, 2017).
(iii) The emotion of a person can be improved by physical activities because there is a
connection between what a person thinks and how they react. Thus physical
activities can play a major role in improving the capability to think in a positive
way. Depression is a common emotion seen in the development phase of child’s
they could be reduced by practising physical activities (Bornstein & Bradley,
2014). Thus it was researched that simplifying the routine can help in going a long
way by strengthening the emotions and physical health. Considering an example
regarding how the emotions impact the physical health of a person. It is important
to know that the emotional development in a child's life depends on the physical
activities as it helps in developing a well-rounded child. It is true that emotions
impact the health of a child as in the research finding it was stated that when a
child stay stressed or depressed for a long period of time they are found to suffer
from some severe chronic disease especially they develop mental health problems
which in turn can cause various other problems (Rilling & Young, 2014). On the
other hand when a child remains happy they tend to develop strong social
connection in the society which will improve their personal health (Carroll, Daly
& Begley, 2016).
It can be concluded that the emotions of a person at every stage reflects its development
weather the development is seen in social behaviour or in physical health. Emotions are

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directly related to the fact how a person will grow (Tran, Van Berkel, Van Ijzendoorn &
Alink, 2017) . If a person carries positive emotions they will grow in a healthy way otherwise
it would reflect in negative health of the child. Physical activities do help in building positive
growth among individual.

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