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Discussion 4-1

Discussion 4-1

Q Compare and contrast peer relationships in infancy, early childhood, school-age, and adolescent children. How do these relationships impact children’s social development, both positively and negatively? Provide examples from a module resource to support your answer.

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It can be said that the children who are 6 months of age are able to interact socially toward the peers by using their smile or other sounds. It can be observed that the toddlers try to start getting engaged in parallel and afterwards tend to develop to pretend cooperative play which is also been related to the overcoming fears. Most of the young children prefer to play with others who are of the same gender and it is after the late adolescents that they become friends with the mixed gender group. In the chapter reading, it was explained that if a child is