aying with other children. The child learns that relationships between peers and indeed all people are based on compromise. As noted by Dr. Brazelton in his statement that, in healthy peer relationships between toddlers, children learn the give and takes of equality. This is a fundamental aspect of the relationships a child must form throughout its life in order to grow into a well adjust adult. These various relationships formed during childhood give a child the opportunity to experience the emotional responses that accompany those relationships. Cognition is formed through experience and as such these early relationships allow a child to learn methods for dealing with their emotions through their further understanding of them. The obvious social ramifications of a childs play-time are underlined by its behavioral benefits. For example, the development of a childs motor reflexes is directly related to play. As Bettelheim said a child,masters body control as he skips and jumps and run. Play is probably the best form of exercise available to a child. The primary behavioral benefit of play is the acquisition of knowledge through a childs tendency to observe other children and then model the behavior of those other children; therefore, a child can learn something from another child simply by watching the other child. Dr. Braselton illustrates this skill in toddlers by stating that they have the, ability to pick up and imitate whole sequences of a peers behavior. In this way children can imitate actions that were formulated in relation to an experience they themselves have never been force to deal with. The social, emotional, and behavioral aspects of a childs development are a function of their cognitive development. Cognition is a broad term which the text states refers to, anything that goes on in the mind, including attention, perception, memory, language formation and development, reading and writing, thinking, problem solving,...
