PBS Parents: Helping Toddlers Understand Their Emotions

URL: http://www.pbs.org/parents/expert-tips-advice/2015/08/helping-toddlers-understand-emotions/

It wasn’t so long ago that the conventional wisdom was that babies were pretty much blobs who didn’t think or feel much before they could speak in words around the age of two.  The idea that a six-month-old could feel fear or anger, no less sadness and grief, was preposterous.  But thanks to an explosion in research on infancy in the last 30 years, we now know that babies and toddlers are deeply feeling beings.