If children are to become emotionally literate adults, able to understand and have mastery over their feelings, it is essential that this important work begins in the early years. It is a fundamental part of enabling children to be sensitive to the feelings of others and a key element of all other emotional skills. However, this awareness will not simply develop by chance. If children are to be aware of, and able to talk about feelings, practitioners must provide them with the appropriate experiences. You must support children to recognise, name and acknowledge their feelings, and there are a variety of ways in which you can do this. This book offers some suggestions. It takes the whole range of human emotions and looks at how to help children recognise and talk about them.