ABSTRACT
Children develop many faulty beliefs about themselves as they grow into adulthood in this stressful society. These negative messages become diffused through every part of the child's life. Developmentally, young children are unable to appraise messages they receive from their parents, and later from the outer world. Helping children express their feelings is crucial to the child's healthy development. All infants express feelings, regardless of the cultural milieu, through sound, facial expression, gesture and, as they grow, through language. Doing self-nurturing work with young children is very gratifying. Some children learn to inhibit feelings, most commonly anger, at such a young age that they have no memory of ever feeling them, no words with which to describe them, no skills with which to express them. These children have concluded very early that they are shameful beings.
