A Guide for Positive Development

The education package on positive development mainly focused to develop healthier socio-emotional behaviour among children. Social-emotional behaviour includes the child's experience, expression, and management of emotions and the ability to establish positive and rewarding relationships with others. It encompasses both intra and interpersonal processes. The core features of emotional development include the ability to identify and understand one's own feelings, to accurately read and comprehend emotional states in others, to manage strong emotions and their expression in a constructive manner, to regulate one's own behavior, to develop empathy for others, and to establish and maintain relationships. (National Scientific Council on the Developing Child, 2004). Responsive care giving supports in beginning to regulate their emotions and to develop a sense of predictability, safety, and responsiveness in their social environments. In the early years, "nurturing, stable and consistent relationships are the key to healthy growth, development and learning" (National Research Council and Institute of Medicine, 2000).