Video Transcript
Narrator: In the Social and Emotional Development domain, the strand Relationships includes the foundation Relationships With Peers. Children from 23 through 36 months prefer to interact with the same few children. They also engage in more complex play with those children than with other peers.
Example 1
Text on screen: Prefers to play with certain children and engages in more complex play with them
On screen: 32-month-old Jet and his older brother, Jordyn, play together with toy animals and construction vehicles in a bin of kinetic sand.
Jet: A gorilla.
On screen: Jet bounces a toy gorilla on the table and tosses it in the air.
Jet: A gorilla. Whee!
Jordyn: Jet, let’s put it in here. (imitating engine noises)
On screen: Jordyn puts sand on a bulldozer and pushes it around in the bin. Jet picks up a steamroller.
Jet: OK. I’m ready. I’m ready.
Jordyn: Let’s fight! Maaah!
On screen: Jet and Jordyn push their vehicles against each other in the sand.
Jet: (inaudible)
On screen: Jet puts the steamroller down and picks up the gorilla. He puts the gorilla in the sand bin. Jordyn lifts the gorilla up.
Jordyn: Aah-yah.
Example 2
Text on screen: Prefers to play with certain children and engages in more complex play with them
On screen: 31-month-old Mary Jane and an older child, Mia, play outdoors near several other children and two caregivers. Mary Jane and Mia stand next to a metal post. Mary Jane pretends to order food, and Mia takes her order.
Mary Jane: I want sprinkles please.
Mia: OK.
On screen: Mia looks at a flat circular area on top of the post and taps at it like it’s a touch screen
Mia: I don’t have sprinkles.
Mary Jane: Do you have chocolate?
Mia: Yeah.
Mary Jane: I want chocolate.
On screen: Mia taps the top of the post again.
Mia: I don’t have chocolate.
Mary Jane: Ummmm, cake.
Mia: OK. I check cake.
On screen: Mia taps at the top of the post again.
Mia: I don’t have cake.
Mary Jane: Um, sprinkle cake.
Mia: K. I don’t have sprinkle cake.
On screen: Mia puts her ear on top of the post and pretends to talk to someone.
On screen: You have chocolate? She doesn’t have chocolate. I have Thai (inaudible).
Mary Jane: I want Thai (inaudible).
On screen: Mia taps the post again, then holds her hand out to serve Mary Jane.
Mia: OK. Here’s some Thai (inaudible).
On screen: Mary Jane pretends to eat.
Mary Jane: Om nom nom nom nom.
Mia: OK.
Mary Jane: It’s spicy for me.
Mia: What?
Mary Jane: It’s spicy for me.
Mia: OK. If you want no spicy…
Mary Jane: I don’t want spicy.
Mia: OK. I have zero to five.
On screen: Mary Jane looks at the top of the post.
Mary Jane: No, no. I want, I want zero (inaudible). I want hot—I wanna look for zero hot.
On screen: Mia and Mary Jane switch places at the post, and Mary Jane looks at the circular top. It’s Mia’s turn to order food.
Mia: And then I thought you buy. I want some cherries.
Mary Jane: OK.
Example 3
Text on screen: Prefers to play with certain children and engages in more complex play with them
On screen: 32-month-old Sheridan, 33-month-old Ximena, and an older child, Emory, stand around a couch while playing with stuffies. Sheridan wipes a stuffie with a tissue.
Sheridan: He has a wet diaper. So I need give him a new diaper.
Caregiver 1: You need to give him a new diaper.
On screen: Emory points at a toy baby bottle on the couch.
Emory: Look, that milkie right there.
On screen: Emory walks around the couch and picks up the bottle.
Emory: I think that’s someone’s milkie here. Can I have it?
On screen: Emory starts to walk away. Sheridan turns and reaches out to Emory.
Sheridan: That’s for — I need that. I need that!
On screen: Emory gives the baby bottle to Sheridan.
Sheridan: That’s for cleaning the diapers. So, I need a clean.
On screen: Sheridan turns and gives the bottle to Ximena.
Sheridan: So, there you go.
On screen: Ximena shakes the bottle over her stuffed animal.
Ximena: K.