Exploring Emotional Intelligence in Early Childhood: Psychology Report

This report delves into the critical role of emotional intelligence in early childhood education, specifically focusing on infants, toddlers, and young children. It highlights the importance of key insights such as unconditional love, brain building, and attention in fostering healthy development. The report emphasizes the significance of unconditional love in building strong bonds with children, allowing for effective sharing of feelings and experiences. It also discusses the need to prepare children for future challenges and to closely monitor their behavior. The author identifies unconditional love as the most crucial aspect for their personal development, emphasizing its role in building connections and managing behavior. The report references several scholarly articles and videos to support its claims, providing a comprehensive overview of emotional intelligence within the context of early childhood education and care.

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Graduate diploma in early childhood education and teaching
There are various insights that need to be considered in emotional intelligence explicitly
linked to the role of the early childhood professional working especially with the infants, young
children, and the toddlers. This is basically with the connection with the importance of the
relationship for learning. The following are some of the key insights that have been identified.
Unconditional love
This is considered as the key insight in connection with emotional intelligence. It is one
of the important aspects and virtue to be considered when working in an early childhood
professional job dealing with infants, toddlers, and young children (1:18). There is a need for the
connection between the person in this profession and children. Unconditional love is key insight
when it comes to the connection between the children and the professional person. Loving
children will bring a strong bond with them (Robson, 2019). In this case, toddlers, infants, and
young children will share their feeling experience with the professional taking care of them. In
this way, one will be able to understand the needs of the children by studying their behavior
closely.
Brain building
This involves preparing children for future aspects. This is a key aspect because every
child needs to be prepared for the future aspect. Just like a building need a strong foundation, so
should be children as they prepare for the future. Life is full of stress, threats, abuse and all
manner of negative aspects (0:49). Children need to be prepared on how to face such kinds of
negativities in the future. If the child is not well prepared for future challenges it may result in
depression and other health issues. Preparation of the children to face these challenges brings

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about the aspect of brain-building key insight (Paavola, 2017). The person working in this
profession should teach children to face the future ups and downs.
Attention
This is another key insight that needs to be considered and followed by the person
working in a profession involving toddlers, infants, and young children (0:28). This involves
having close monitoring of the behavior of the children. One should be able to know if there is
something wrong with children, how to stop children from behaving in a certain manner and how
one can manage the behavior of such children. This is a key aspect that should be highly
considered when dealing with young children.
Out of the above discussed key insights, unconditional love is the spect that I would
choose in my development concerning the action plan (McLachlan, Fleer & Edwards,
2018). Love is the main aspect that I value most when dealing with infants, toddlers, and young
children. The importance of love for children, infants and toddlers involves
 Need for friendly association with children
 Need for sharing feelings, emotions and experiences with children
 Need for building a connection with children
 Need for a close way of mentoring children by understanding their behaviors
 Need for easy to management of the behavior of toddlers, infants, and young children.
Unconditional love for children is therefore an important key aspect that should be
embraced in the action plan for effective interaction with children especially in curriculum
concerning emotional competence.

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References
McLachlan, C., Fleer, M., & Edwards, S. (2018). Early childhood curriculum: Planning,
assessment and implementation. Cambridge University Press.
Paavola, L. E. (2017). The importance of emotional intelligence in early childhood.
Robson, S. (2019). Developing thinking and understanding in young children: an introduction
for students. Routledge.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmVWOe1ky8s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6DhnbgRAOo