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How many different types of smiles are there?
For National Smile Day, we asked our children to give us a smile to show how they were feeling.
Dr Paul Ekman, PhD an is world-renowned in his research into facial expression and emotion. He can distinguish over 50 different smiles!
The science of smiling is much more complicated than we imagine. Not all smiles are created equally. Children in particular learn from adults that facial expressions will hold them accountable! But involuntary, spontaneous facial expressions of emotion are not easy to conceal.
Some of the most common types of smiles are:
Reward smiles – arising from a positive feeling, contentment, approval, or even happiness in the midst of sorrow.
Affiliation smiles – used to reassure others, to be polite, and to communicate trustworthiness, belonging, and good intentions.
Dominance smiles – to show their superiority, to communicate contempt or derision, and to make others feel less powerful. Sometime called a sneer.
Lying smile – whilst we enjoy a child giving us a lying smile, they cannot hide the truth.
Wistful smile – the ability to smile in the midst of both emotional and physical pain.
Polite smile – probably the ones used the most in our social interactions with others.
Pan Am smile – named after the Pan Am flight attendants who were required to keep smiling, even when customers and circumstances made them want to throw peanut packets across the cabin.
Duchenne smile – our favourite and a gold standard of smiles. This is a smile of genuine enjoyment. It’s the one that involves the mouth, the cheeks, and the eyes simultaneously. It’s the one where your whole face seems to light up suddenly.
How many can you spot in our video?
My thanks to Stuart Shanker - Self-Reg & Ali McClure Education and Parenting for the inspiration for this fun activity.
Just been on a call with Ali McClure Education and Parenting where we were discussing the importance of boundaries and routines with our young children.
One aspect of our discussion was the importance of the key person. The image in this post, the ring symbolizes a vital aspect of a key person – continuity; consistency; never-ending; love; attention; predictable.
However, in the image there are some rocks in the background. This represents the small hurdles that every child will face in their life. But the key person will always be there to smooth the path.
This is a strategy that parents can also use at home. This will build up your child’s emotional resilience and self-regulation.
"A is for Anticipate"
Courtesy of Ali McClure Education and Parenting, here is the the letter "A is for Anticipate" in her A-Z of Brilliant Behaviour.
Link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxIPtT8wEQk
The parenting skill is to anticipate what your child's needs are in advance so that you can plan and be prepared. For example, if your child doesn't like messy hands, then have a hand washing activity already set-up before they help you with your cooking.
As a parent, when you plan in advance for your child's needs, the less challenge they become. And more enjoyable parenting!
Share your success stories here for others to learn from.
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And look out for Ali McClure Education and Parenting on Early Years TV next Friday too!
Have you been listening to the Inspiring Nurseries podcast?
To date there are 13 podcasts which began at the start of lockdown and cover a variety of topics with many guests. They give lots of tips and ideas for all those working in Early Years.
Here's the episodes and the topics they cover:
① - Your Coronavirus response with Alison Featherbe Learning and Development. - Early Years Specialist
② - Supporting your team during lockdown with Alison Featherbe
③ - Keeping up momentum - policies and procedures with Alison Featherbe
④ - Five Fundamentals for Brilliant Behaviour - with Ali Mcclure (Ali McClure Education and Parenting)
⑤ - Nursery Managers and Owners take on lockdown and Covid 19 - with Jennifer Mcquillan (Under The Son Early Childhood Education Center)
⑥ - Safeguarding during and beond Covid 19 - with Alison Featherbe
⑦ - Furlough Recruitment Reopening - with Imogen Edwards from Red wing Solutions
⑧ - Parents, Money and Nursery fees - with Alison Featherbe
⑨ - Managing Change And Transition from a Mental Health Perspective Part 1 - with Kate Moxley Wellness For All and Alison Featherbe
➉ - Financial Survival for Nurseries
⑪ - Managing Change and Transition from a Mental Health Perspective Part 2 - with Kate Moxley and Alison Featherbe
⑫ - Parenting Made Easy - with Sue Atkins
⑬ - Early Years Review - with Aaron Bradbury
To subscribe to the Inspiring Nurseries podcast go to:
https://anchor.fm/inspiringnurseries
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