As part of a series of booklets designed to support parents and carers of young children in the home, this issue explores the challenges that all young children face in learning to manage their feelings and emotions so they can be safe, optimistic, and enthusiastic about life and learning. Following an introductory section emphasizing the early years as the foundation for all later growth, development, and learning and identifying important characteristics of infants' and young children's parents and carers, the booklet is organized in five sections. Section 1 identifies learning about feelings as one of the most important challenges for young children and states that young children need the support of an adult with whom they feel safe in order to learn about feelings. Sections 2 through 4 provide the following types of information about infants, toddlers, and preschool children, respectively: (1) developmental expectations; (2) the child's needs in the relationship with the parent/carer; (3) places to be and things to do, focusing on children's needs for particular types of experiences or play; and (4) learning and doing, providing suggestions for play with adults, and addressing special concerns relevant to the age group, such as separation, jealousy, tantrums, relating to other children, or out-of-bounds behavior. Section 5 suggests titles for further reading and lists books to read with children. (KB)