<p>Student Resource Area for: Guiding Children's Social Development and Learning, 6E Chapter 2 - Initiating Social Relationships in Infancy Exercise 2.1 Identifying Situations in Which Infants Are Getting Appropriate Care and Interaction In each of the following situations, decide if the children are receiving appropriate care. If they are, label the setting as positive. If not, label it as negative. Consult the Skills portion of Chapter 2 for assistance. 1. Three children under two and one caregiver are alone in the room. It appears to be clean and the children are happy. Answer Eight infants and two caregivers are in the room. Each caregiver is engaged with an infant when a child who is 10 months old and playing alone, begins to cry. Answer Three caregivers are in the room with nine children. One is reading the food schedules, one is cleaning the bathroom where a child had a messy accident, and the third has been on the telephone for 15 minutes. Answer All four infants in the room are asleep. The caregiver is straightening the shelves of toys. Answer Lunch was finished an hour ago. Two of the children still have food on their cheeks. Answer Three caregivers are in the room with 10 children. One is watching the creeping children play on the floor near her, a second is giving a bottle to a small infant, and the third is showing a toddler how to work the jack-in-the-box. Answer Ms. Bailey pats Casey on the back lightly to burp her. Answer Two infants are playing on the floor and one is sleeping. A fourth begins to cry just as the caregiver answers the phone. The adult takes the number and tells the parent that she will return the call as soon as another adult is available in her room. Answer The room is attractive, clean, and well supplied with toys. The children are asleep, playing quietly, or looking at the players from infant seats. The two caregivers are discussing a party they attended the evening before. Answer The room for infants under six months is attractive, clean, appropriately furnished, and the two adults give prompt but silent care when infants need to be fed or changed. The infants otherwise remain in their cribs. Answer</p>