Chapter Outline

The Story of Tom's Fathering

Emotional and Personality Development

• Emotional Development
  • Defining Emotion
  • Affect in Parent-Child Relationships
  • Developmental Timetable of Emotions
  • Crying
  • Smiling
  • Fear
    • Stranger Anxiety
    • Separation Anxiety
  • Social Referencing
  • Emotional Regulation
• Temperament
  • Defining and Classifying Temperament
  • Heredity and Environment
  • Goodness of Fit
  • Parenting and the Child's Temperament
• Personality Development
  • Trust
  • The Developing Sense of Self and Independence

Attachment

• What Is Attachment?
• Individual Differences
• Caregiving Styles and Attachment Classification
• Attachment, Temperament, and the Wider Social World

Social Contexts

• The Family
  • The Transition to Parenthood
  • Reciprocal Socialization
  • The Family as a System
  • Mothers and Fathers as Caregivers
• Day Care