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- Enjoys the company of others and seeks contact with others from birth
- Shows their readiness to be social through using their sensory abilities; following movement and gazing at faces intently
- Moves body, arms and legs and changes facial expression in response to others, e.g. sticking out tongue, opening mouth and widening eyes
- Responds to what carer is paying attention to, e.g. following their gaze
- Distinguishes between people, recognising the look, sound and smell of their close carer
- They will usually calm, smile or reduce crying when they hear their carers’/parent’s voice, or smell their clothing, for example
- Holds up arms to be picked up and cuddled and is soothed by physical touch such as being held, cuddled and stroked
- Begins to display attachment behaviours such as wanting to stay near their close carer and becoming upset when left with an unfamiliar person
- Becomes wary of unfamiliar people or people they haven’t seen for a while
