Provide opportunities for your baby to play and interact with other infants, toddlers, older children and adults. New Jersey Birth to Three Early Learning Standards. (2013). New Jersey Council for Young Children. McMullen, M.B., J. Addleman, A.M. Fulford, S. Mooney, S. Moore, S. Sisk, & J. Zachariah. 2009. “Learning to Be Me while Coming to Understand We: Encouraging Prosocial (Level III) Hagens, H. E. (1997). Strategies for encouraging peer interactions in infant/toddler programmes. Early Childhood Education Journal, 25, 147–149. (Level III) USA.
Relationships with peers and adults can be built through playing with them. These relationships form the foundation of development in other domains like brain and language development. Additionally, the beneficial effects of secure relationships with others can last into adulthood.