Social Emotional Development plays a key role in how much and how well children learn, communicate, cope, and build relationships.

Supporting social emotional development is important for building confidence, motivation, persistance, communication and team skills, and helping children cope with difficulties and challenges. It is as important as brain and physical development, but is often more difficult to see and take cues on how a child is progressing.

The core features of emotional development include the ability to identify and understand one’s own feelings, to accurately read and comprehend emotional states in others, to manage strong emotions and their expression in a constructive manner, to regulate one’s own behavior, to
develop empathy for others and to establish and sustain relationships.
—National Scientific Council on the Developing Child (2005)

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