Empowering young minds through social-emotional learning
Discover ways that social-emotional learning helps even the youngest of children. This web page is designed to help teachers and parents of infants and young children. Caregivers can help children meet age-appropriate milestones and strengthen skills they may already have.
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Discover how prenatal care and early childhood impact social-emotional development. Along with expected milestones and various strategies you can use to help children meet their goals.
Prenatal Care and Early Childhood Impact
The effect that prenatal development and care and early childhood experiences can have on adolescent social and emotional development.
Early Life Social-Emotional Milestones
Infancy, toddlerhood, and early childhood, and the specific social/emotional milestones for each stage of child development.
Classroom Strategies
Two social-emotional learning strategies or activities for infancy, toddlerhood, and early childhood, that teachers can implement in the classroom
Home-Based Strategies
Social and emotional learning strategies and/or self-regulation skills to implement at home to support a child’s social/emotional development for infancy, toddlerhood, and early childhood.
Self-Regulation Skills Start With You!
Definition of self-regulation and ways teachers can model and encourage the development of self-regulation skills in the classroom
Resources
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Pathways.Org | social-emotional development: How baby builds connection. (2026). Pathways.Org. https://pathways.org/topics-of-development/social-emotional
Raising Children Network. (2019). Self-regulation in young children. Raising Children Network. https://raisingchildren.net.au/toddlers/behaviour/understanding-behaviour/self-regulation
Self-regulation theme definition | Department of Psychology | Wake Forest University. (2025, August). Department of Psychology. https://psychology.wfu.edu/self-regulation-theme-definition/
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