ABSTRACT
While social skills enable children to interact with other adults and children in the nursery in an age-related way, they are dependent on a number of emotional competences that work to let children know who they are and who others are. There is a sequence of development which is partly down to nature (e.g. the maturational unfolding of emotional competences) and partly down to nurture (e.g. the experiences and opportunities the children have and the role models which provide examples of behaviour and set cultural mores). During this process, the children begin to make comparisons and evaluations and this helps them form their self-concept. At this point Jacki said she was confused.
