THE IMPORTANCE OF EARLY PEER EXPERIENCES
Children gain a lot of knowledge and skill when in a peer rich environment that supports their growing self-efficacy. Peers have the ability to support children in reaching their full potential and provide them opportunities to practice social skills within a safe and nurturing environment. This blog is talks about how and why peer interaction plays an important role in your child’s growth and development. Children benefit from peer models because they are more likely to believe they can complete a task or play a simple game when observing a successful model similar to themselves, thus promoting the child’s self-efficacy.
Self-efficacy is the belief that you are capable of performing a task or managing a situation; it is about learning how to preserve and try again when presented with a challenge. When children equate success to internal factors, they develop a sense of mastery, which in return reinforces a stronger self-efficacy belief system. A child with higher self-efficacy has more motivation to attend and participate, can be less anxious in less-preferred/challenging situations, and demonstrates greater resilience and flexibility towards challenges
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