How Prenatal Development Shapes Later SEL:

Healthy prenatal development helps the brain structures to help emotional regulation, stress response, and social connections. interations such as eye contact, skin to skin, and communication helps with the "Social brain" A theory from Leisman, G., Alfasi, R., & D’Angiulli, A. (2025) has said when babies notice these types of patterns are starting to form memories from having those early experiences when having positive environments.

Family Strategies for Supporting SEL at Home: 

Families play a vital role in shaping their children's social-emotional development. It is important to have interactions with children such as talking, listening, playing, support, and comforting. This helps children learn how to understand their emotions so they can build relationships and managing different challenges. 

How Early Childhood Experiences Influence Adolescence:

Having a trusting caregiver or parent can help children develop self-control, empathy, social skills and problem-solving skills. Having steady caregiving can have healthy attachments which helps with emotional regulation and build healthy friendships in adolescence. Having limited or unpredictable caregiving and limited emotional support, can make teens struggle with stress and anxiety and have problems with socializing with their peers.