{"id":397,"date":"2018-01-09T13:38:41","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T13:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-255815-3383686.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=397"},"modified":"2023-12-12T09:36:44","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T09:36:44","slug":"your-babies-social-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.korukids.co.uk\/blog\/bringing-up-great-kids\/your-babies-social-development","title":{"rendered":"Your baby&#8217;s social development"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"intro\">Babies are remarkably social creatures, as you\u2019ll know from their desire to hang out in the middle of the night.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"intro\">If you\u2019ve spent much time with more than one baby at once, you\u2019ve also probably seen them interacting from fairly early on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.karger.com\/Article\/Abstract\/70370\">Researchers<\/a>\u00a0have observed babies doing so from as young as six months old. They interact by \u2018vocalising\u2019 together (making noises), smiling at each other, and touching \u2013 even playing footsie!\u00a0 What\u2019s more,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/19346279_Infants%27_Interactions_with_Mother_Sibling_and_Peer_Contrasts_and_Relations_between_Interaction_Systems\">research<\/a>\u00a0has shown that when adults play with babies and teach them to take turns, the babies try out this sharing behaviour they\u2019ve learned with other babies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now research is suggesting that babies can do even more than this. A recent and very cool\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/26112352\">study<\/a>\u00a0showed that babies show empathy\u2014and can even calm each other down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The study looked at eight month old babies in groups, and how the other babies in a group reacted when one got upset.\u00a0 The other babies responded by looking at the upset baby, and trying to interact with him or her.\u00a0 A third of the time, the reactions of the babies in the group actually helped soothe the upset baby.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We think this is pretty great, a baby helping another baby emotionally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s also surprising because, until now, babies were not thought to develop what\u2019s called \u2018pro-social\u2019 behaviour until their second year of life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Turns out, babies benefit from social interaction earlier than was previously believed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(If you\u2019re reading this at 2.a.m\u2026 you knew that, right?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"end-CTA\">If you&#x27;d like a friend for your baby, you can find out more about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.korukids.co.uk\/nanny-share\/about\">nanny share\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Babies are remarkably social creatures, as you\u2019ll know from their desire to hang out in the middle of the night. Turns out, babies benefit from social interaction earlier than was previously believed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":417,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[150],"hashtags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.korukids.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.korukids.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.korukids.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.korukids.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.korukids.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.korukids.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28091,"href":"https:\/\/www.korukids.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions\/28091"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.korukids.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.korukids.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.korukids.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.korukids.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397"},{"taxonomy":"hashtags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.korukids.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtags?post=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}