Early childhood education is changing rapidly due to the dynamic nature of positive and
negative trends affecting the profession. In this article, the changing landscape of early …

Early childhood education is a field that includes practitioners in nursery schools,
elementary schools, Head Start centers, child care centers, family homes, and other …

Through childhood and adolescence, youngsters are learning how to express and regulate
their myriad feelings and understand the emotions of self and others. They are acquiring …

Emotional competence–expressing, understanding, and regulating emotions in an adaptive
manner–is crucial in its own right, and for young children's social and preacademic …

Background Preschoolers' emotional competence is of prime importance in their concurrent
and later social and academic success. Parents are primary socializers of these abilities, but …

Emotion knowledge supports early school success. Socializers' emotions, contingent
reactions to emotions, emotion language, and beliefs about emotions can contribute to …

Guided by Vygotsky's zone of proximal development, this article examined whether
characters in emotion picture-books express and talk about emotions in ways that are …

Purpose Emotional competence supports preschoolers' social relationships and school
success. Parents' emotions and reactions to preschoolers' emotions can help them become …

In this study we investigated how early childhood teachers' emotion socialization behaviors
contribute to children's social-emotional competence (SEC), as well as whether these …

This engaging, authoritative text synthesizes a vast body of research on how young children
develop the ability to understand, express, and manage their emotions, as well as the impact …