2.1 Expression of Emotion ||Observe infants to determine what
senses and motor skills they enjoy and use for exploring.
Sensory and motor skills form the basis of individual
differences in how infants calm themselves (self-regulation). If
an infant uses his visual sense to calm himself or pay
attention, provide interesting visual stimulation to (your face
or the infant’s favorite toy) to support self-regulation. It can
be easy to think that babies have two modes; babies who are
happy smile and coo and play while babies who are sad cry.
However what we forget in this assumption is that babies are
people too with the same range of emotions that we experience as
adults, although they aren’t yet able to express these emotions
in the same ways that we do. Infants and young children are only
just beginning the process of learning and understanding what
emotions are, while at the same time experiencing them in a big
way. This is why it’s so important that we acknowledge and label
an infant’s feeling so that they can