Falling out

Synopsis: Having friends is an essential part of life and for children friendship plays such an important role that an inability to socialise can easily lead to isolation, unhappiness and maladjustment in general. Learning to get on with others starts early and at a very young age we see children struggle to socialise with their peers. An essential part of this process involves learning to deal with conflicts and, for the under 5’s especially, clashes are very frequent. Adults often find fighting children hard to cope with and, as a result, move in and break up conflicts so denying children the essential experience of learning to deal with these situations themselves. FALLING OUT aims to show how to be more objective. Natural conflict situations amongst under 5’s are observed closely and the commentary explains clearly yet simply what is happening. We see how well different children cope with their peers, what they need to learn, how things can go wrong and how adults can help or hinder the process.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Subjects: Psychology
Keywords: child development; conflict; social psychology; pre-school children; friendship

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