The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to explore how early childhood teachers describe their self-efficacy regarding their ability to teach social and emotional skills to young children. It is important that young children develop social-emotional skills to help them navigate through the early learning years. Since young children spend a lot of time within an educational setting, teachers have traditionally taken on the role of social moral guide. To understand how early childhood teachers, from three northwest Indiana rural school communities, describe their self-efficacy regarding their ability to teach social emotional skills to young children, including their specific strategies, a qualitative methodology, using a descriptive design, was implemented. Bandura's Theory of Self Efficacy was used as the theoretical foundation of the study. Individual and two focus group interviews, with 14 early childhood teachers, were used to explore the specific strategies that the early childhood teachers used when teaching social and emotional skills to young children. Using thematic analysis four themes emerged. Namely, (1) confidence is an important aspect of teaching social and emotional skills to young children, (2) significant relationships, and one's ability to learn from these relationships, are essential to developing early childhood social and emotional teaching skills, (3) online platforms are an invaluable resource when teaching social and emotional skills to young children, and (4) holistic self-care is important when teaching social and emotional skills to young children. The study findings add to the early childhood social-emotional teaching knowledge base and could benefit those new to the early childhood social-emotional teaching domain. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://www.proquest.com.bibliotheek.ehb.be/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.]