Topic: Emotional expression | Early Childhood | | | Standard 2. Children develop trust and emotional security through positive relationships, self-awareness, and self-regulation | | | | 0-9 months | | | | | Benchmark 3. | Reacts to other’s emotional expressions (e.g., becomes upset when another infant is crying; imitates facial expressions of others) | | | | | Benchmark 6. | Expresses emotion through facial expressions, movements, gestures, or sounds (e.g., smiles, cries, frowns, laughs) in response to environment. | | | | 8-18 months | | | | | Benchmark 3. | Demonstrates awareness of the feelings of others (e.g., watches another child who is crying or laughing, offers a toy to another child who is upset, squeals with joy when other children are happy and excited) | | | | | Benchmark 9. | Expresses a range of emotions through actions, body language, and expressions (e.g., gives hugs to show affection; cries when afraid, laughs or claps when happy; pushes away a toy when frustrated) | | | | 16-36 months | | | | | Benchmark 9. | Expresses self-conscious emotions (e.g., pride, embarrassment, shame, guilt) and emotions based on new understandings (e.g., fear of monsters) through actions (e.g., hides, acts out emotions in pretend play) and speech (e.g., labels own and other’s emotions) |
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