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I think it is important for children to read different things to find out about their emotions and other people's emotions. It is an enormous source of education and culture.

A huge part of what a kid learns when they're growing up is social and emotional development. As adults, we take it for granted that other people have emotions that are different from ours, and we can identify what they are, but those are skills that children have to learn.

Teachers need to be comfortable talking about feelings. This is part of teaching emotional literacy - a set of skills we can all develop, including the ability to read, understand, and respond appropriately to one's own emotions and the emotions of others.

Everyone has emotions; you just learn to use then and be comfortable with them.

A kid should be told that you can have feelings.

Emotional intelligence begins to develop in the earliest years. All the small exchanges children have with their parents, teachers, and with each other carry emotional messages.

Basic emotions can be conveyed through anything. As long as you show people that you're human, they'll relate to it.

Teachers need to be comfortable talking about feelings.

Emotions are products of our mind, and we can actually train ourselves to choose whether we banish or embrace them.

I think that unless you can take judgments of right and wrong like an automaton, you must have emotions because that is our only way of moral guidance.