A Parents' Guide to Promoting Social Skill Development During Infancy and Toddlerhood

In order to be truly successful in life, being personally secure and intellectually adept is not enough. Because every individual must operate as part of a larger society, it is necessary to be socially skillful as well; and, as is the case with most of an individual's characteristics, the roots of interpersonal proficiency form during infancy and toddlerhood.


Unfortunately, social skills occupy a somewhat strange position in early development. While effective interactions with other people ...