- Expresses a range of feelings through actions and a few words
- Experiences a wide range of feelings with great intensity, such as anger and frustration, which can be overwhelming and result in losing control of feelings, body and thinking
- Is aware of others’ feelings and is beginning to show empathy by offering a comfort object to another child or sharing in another child’s excitement
- Asserts their own agenda strongly and may display frustration with having to comply with others’ agendas and with change and boundaries
- Expresses the self-aware emotions of pride and embarrassment as well as a wide range of other feeling
- Can feel overwhelmed by intense emotions, resulting in an emotional collapse when frightened, frustrated, angry, anxious or over-stimulated
- Begins to make connections between what they are seeing and doing with how they are feeling
- Seeks comfort from familiar adults when needed and distracts themselves with a comfort object when upset
- Responds to the feelings of others, showing concern and offering comfort
- May recognise that some actions can hurt or harm others and begins to stop themselves from doing something they should not do, in favourable conditions
- Participates more in collective cooperation as their experience of routines and understanding of some boundaries grows
