There is a national, nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of infants and toddlers called Zero to Three (www.zerotothree.org). I have been blessed to have attended and presented at some of their conferences and often search their website for up to date research on child development. There was a recent report on Parenting Infants and Toddlers Today, Research Findings, Based On a Survey Among Parents of Children Ages Birth To Three Years Old, this finding was one that really struck me:
"Parents do not fully understand how deeply babies’ and toddlers’ social- emotional development is affected by certain early experiences. A significant majority of parents do not realize that by six months most babies can experience feelings such as sadness and fear (69%) and can be affected by their parents’ moods (65%). Many parents also are not aware that most children are capable of feeling good or bad about themselves between ages one to two, with a majority believing that this happens later in a child’s development."
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