Getting to know about emotional development means increasing our understanding of feelings and the labels we give to them which identify a specific feeling as a certain type of emotion. Such knowledge is vital because feelings lie at the heart of human 'connectedness' and relationships. Our first awareness of ourselves and of others is built on the double platform of the kind of feelings we have when we are with someone else, and those we have within ourselves.
One of the first things we have to recognise is that understanding and 'managing' our emotions has a developmental progression, just like any other aspect of development.
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