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Savannah Miller Psy 321 Child Development 6-2 Short Paper Southern New Hampshire University

Self-regulation is known as how one controls their own behavior. This means thoughts, emotions, actions and even the things they pay attention to. Self-regulation put simply is the ability to control your impulses and your urges. This ranges depending on age and person it can be something as simple as a child deciding not to hit their younger sibling or an adult not making a large purchase because it would leave their bank account less than what they would like. The only thing about self-regulation is adults we have the ability to self-regulate whereas children do not. That is why you may see toddlers getting frustrated and acting out because they do not yet know how to regulate those emotions that they are experiencing. Children need someone in their lives to help them learn to regulate their emotions immediately instead of acting out behavioral wise. Learning this skill enables them to learn how to self- regulate on their own. Of course, something like this is hard and it may be frustrating for the adult and the child at times to learn self-regulation, but it is possible for them to learn it. It takes a lot of effort on not only the parent’s part but the other caregivers around the child to help them learn and develop this skill. Playing is one way that helps immensely when it comes to teaching little ones how to self-regulate. Kids love playing and interacting with others and but with socialization comes the promise of not always getting along with everyone. Children need to know how to handle these instances when they arise. Especially when the problem is no longer safe, and the child needs to learn when to step away from that situation and seek help from an adult. These self-regulation skills pertaining to behavior should begin at a very early age for a child. This skill set is vital to a child’s development and will help them as they grow. The best time I would start teaching a child is a

little before preschool age. So perhaps maybe 1 years old. This is right before the influx of emotions that people know as terrible twos so it will help them the most when that confusing time starts. When Self-regulation is not taught children will grow and start to have trouble or make trouble in their lives because they weren’t taught how to deal with certain situations and certain emotions. This can affect a child’s social skill but especially effect the child in knowing when to seek an adult because they are having problems that them themselves cannot solve. This is whereas adults we have to look at our children and address the problems that they are coming to us with because it shows that we are validating their feelings and that we hear them and that we understand. This enables them to learn to trust in us so that we can help them learn to help themselves. Self-regulation when taught needs to be tied into socially emotional skills. This teaches kids that it is okay to open up to those that they trust because we want them to reach out so we can help. Without that there is no trust, and the adult never knows there is anything wrong with the child. This is just as important for a child to learn as any common core class they will take at school. Self-regulation teaches kids that thoughts are linked to feelings and then our feelings are linked into our actions. This is especially important for a lot of people as adults that are responsible for kids to remember. Our kids or the children we are responsible for rely on us. They depend on us. If we aren’t okay, then they won’t be okay. If you’re not okay, then it’s okay to reach out for help so that you know both yourself and your kids will be okay. Making sure there is someone there

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to support them when you’re not okay so you can become okay is the best thing someone can do that is around children on a daily basis. Kids learn from us. They sense things about us even when we try to hide it. They can sense those emotions and mirror them to be their own. That is when self-regulation comes into play because we have to be okay in order to be there for them in things like school and even just daily life. Self-regulation is all about letting them watch you and letting them see how we used to do certain things this way, but it wasn’t good for us so now we do it the better way. Adapt and overcome. Children need to see those self-regulation skills come into play so they can see what it looks like and how it is really supposed to work. This helps for kids to see it in different settings. Like at school with their teachers and classmates or playing on the playground with their friends. Especially at home where everything feels the safest for a child. Well, it’s supposed too anyway.

Reference: Handbook of Self-Regulation . (n.d.). http://ndl.ethernet.edu.et/bitstream/123456789/28342/1/162.pdf.pdf#page=19 Post, Y., Boyer, W., & Brett, L. (2006). A Historical Examination of Self-Regulation: Helping Children Now and in the Future. Early Childhood Education Journal , 34 (1), 5–14. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10643-006-0107-x POSNER, M. I., & ROTHBART, M. K. (2000). Developing mechanisms of self- regulation. Development and Psychopathology , 12 (3), 427–441. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0954579400003096

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