This video portrays the remarkable early development of emotions and suitable adult responses to the strong emotions of crying and anger. The learning of self-regulation, significant interchange in cueing and guiding early behavior are also shown. The video marks four stages of emotional milestones in infancy, and how emotional closeness is experience through synchrony, social referencing and finally separation-individuation. The early ability to pick up affective cues from caregivers helps establish the lifelong awareness of nonverbal clues in others and develop social abilities. The nuances of these developing skills are couched in the baby’s early significant relationships and in the family and culture into which the young child is born.

19 minutes.
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Also available in Spanish.
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