ABSTRACT
In this chapter, I will primarily be presenting the data on two infant girls, videotaped over a two-year period in their family settings, illustrating the ongoing negotiations that the infant’s changing capacities for coherence, namely affect regulation, and agency required from their families, as outlined by Sander in the last chapter. To provide a wider range of possibilities, I will also include brief examples drawn from the data from two other sources – my own video-taped series on infants and toddlers, at three different age levels, followed over a six-month period, and examples from the data of the first two years collected in the 1950s and 1960s consisting of interviews, testing, and written observations of home visits and play sessions drawn from the twenty-five-year Boston–Denver longitudinal study mentioned earlier.
