Reading from the book Aly is learning to develop her emotional self-awareness. I say this because though she was mad at Miley she still understood that Miley was her best friend and best friends don’t stay mad at each other. The quick changes children make from one emotional state to another are typical for this age (Kostelnik, Soderman, Whiren, Rupiper, & Gregory, 2015). The chapter did clarify for me if this was normal behavior for a four year old. According to the text Aly should soon be able to differentiate her emotions by next birthday. When connecting Luis to a reading in the book I focused on one of Erikson’s stages, Initiative versus guilt. I did this because Luis wanted his friends to like his silly dance and when he didn’t feel
