Remembering the lessons of your own feelings in the lab will help you understand someone else s behavior in a new situation resistance, insecurity, withdrawal, or attacks. Your lab experiences will give you insights into the responses of others. You will be increasingly capable of empathy, of feeling with others, as you identify your own feelings through the lab experiences. In addition, remembering the excitement of feeling yourself grow and succeed will also encourage you to help others have these same feelings of success. After all, I m never going to work with children.
Children are very unique people.
They are new just beginning to experience life, relationships and emerging abilities to think, feel and act. Their responses to situations are usually uncomplicated and direct. Their actions come straight from their feelings. When they are frustrated they cry, or hit, or push people away. The adult tendency to cover up genuine feelings is not part of the preschooler s behavior repertoire.