Children should be taught about navigating their emotions from an early age, says sociologist Thomas Scheff.
He refers to emotions as “internal events,” intangible cues working as “signals that alert us to the state of the world inside and around us.”
He argues that helping kids to learn and talk about emotions will in turn provide them with the tools needed to better understand and manage their feelings over time.
The emotion world is a big mess in modern society because we haven't really defined what we mean by the different emotions.
, professor, University of California–Santa Barbara
