The role of the microsystem in shaping children’s effortful control is important and parents play a critical role. After reading the text and viewing the “Life at 3: Bad Behavior” video, address the following:

What would you recommend to a parent who asks you what he or she can do to promote his or her preschool child’s self-regulation skills?
Now turning to the mesosystem, identify examples of influences on the child’s effortful control you can share with the parent.
Provide examples of influences on children’s effortful control that you have observed in your own family and other families who are close to you.

Guided Response:

Your initial post should be at least 250 words in length.

preview of the answer..

Preschool children are in most cases not able to restrict themselves. They get emotional quite fast and this may be problematic especially to parents who have problems with patience. At this age, the children require a lot of care from the parents and the children could get into problems in the case that their children do not closely watch them. To improve the self-regulation of the children the parents could provide toys to the children or, better yet, put the children in the company of other children where they could play and interact …

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