Helping Children Understand Their Feelings Children experience a wide range of emotions every day. They can feel happy, excited, worried, frustrated, frightened, proud or sad, sometimes all within a few hours. For young children, these feelings can be confusing because they often don’t yet have the words to explain what they are experiencing. Helping children…

Children learn through reading in far more ways than simply recognising words on a page. Stories help develop language, emotions, social skills, knowledge, and imagination simultaneously. 1. Language and Vocabulary Development Books introduce children to words they may not hear in everyday conversation. Repeated reading helps them: For example, a story about visiting a clinic…