Video Transcript
Narrator: In the Social and Emotional Development domain, the strand Self includes the foundation Expression of Emotion. Children from 23 through 36 months express secondary emotions such as pride or embarrassment. They also use words, gestures, or pretend play to describe feelings to others.
Example 1
Text on screen: Uses words to describe feelings to others
On screen: 32-month-old Sheridan and her caregiver are in the kitchen. Her caregiver is kneeling to have a face-to-face conversation with Sheridan.
Sheridan: I went to Disneyland.
Caregiver 1: Was that fun?
Sheridan: It’s too scary.
Caregiver 1: Was it?
Sheridan: Yeah? It’s too – Don’t want to go on the scary rides.
Caregiver 1: Well, I’m sure they have other rides that are not scary.
On screen: Sheridan and her caregiver smile at each other.
Sheridan: Nemo’s not scary!
Caregiver 1: You see!
Sheridan: Nemo.
Example 2
Text on screen: Uses gestures to express feelings to others. Expresses secondary emotions, such as frustration.
On screen: 36-month-old Cesar and his mother sit on the floor playing with a wooden train set. Cesar turns a knob on a crane to lift a piece of the train track with a magnet.
Mother: Let’s see. Oh, you’re putting it down? And up!
On screen: The magnet rises bringing the track with it. But the magnet is not strong enough, and the track piece falls off.
Cesar: (frustrated groan)
On screen: Cesar throws his head back and puts his hand on his forehead in frustration.
Mother: Oh boy.
On screen: Cesar balls his fists and brings them to his chest, frowning deeply. Then he clasps his hands together and rests his cheek against them.
Mother: That’s frustrating. You look frustrated.
On screen: Cesar tries to attach the track piece to the crane’s magnet again.
Cesar: I wonder a different magnet.
Mother: You wonder if a different magnet might work? Let’s check it out.
On screen: The track piece falls. Cesar throws his hands in the air.
Cesar: (sighing heavily)
Mother: Hmm, what do you think’s happening with this piece?
On screen: Cesar turns the crane knob.
Cesar: Oh, it doesn’t have more– It doesn’t have more magnets coming up.
Mother: There’s no more magnets coming up. It’s not going down.
On screen: The scene shifts to Cesar kneeling on an ottoman piecing together segments of toy train tracks. His mother sits nearby.
Text on screen: Uses words and gestures to express secondary emotions, such as pride
Mother: Oh, you want to keep building.
On screen: Cesar bends over as he connects six pieces of train track. The track stretches across the ottoman and onto the couch.
On screen: Cesar straightens up, grins, and claps his hands.
Cesar: There we go.
Mother: There we go. Should I bring your –
On screen: Cesar does a little victory dance, bouncing and moving his arms back and forth.
Cesar: Train tracks, train tracks.
Example 3
Text on screen: Uses words and gestures to express secondary emotions, such as pride
On screen: 31-month-old Lucy has arranged two large cushions, one partially on top of the other, across the floor of a playroom. She begins walking across the cushions as she talks to a caregiver who is off screen.
Lucy: I made a bridge! A bridge, a bridge!
Caregiver 2: You made a bridge?
Lucy: Yeah.
On screen: Lucy walks to one end of the cushions and smiles as she looks at them. She turns to look at her caregiver off-screen.
Caregiver 2: That looks like a path.
On screen: Lucy carefully begins walks across the cushions.
Caregiver 2: Are you going to walk on the path?
Lucy: Yeah.
Caregiver 2: Yeah.
On screen: Lucy steps off the cushion, opens her arms wide, and smiles at her caregiver.
Lucy: Ta-da!
Caregiver 2: You made it to the other side!