a healthy toddler's inner world is filled with conflicting feelings: independence and dependence,pride and shame, confidence and doubt, fear and omnipotence, and hostility and intense love. these feelings challenge parents' and toddler care teachers' resourcefulness and knowledge,as they work together to provide toddlers with emotional security. what is this child trying to tell us with his behavior? is a question that parents and toddler care teachers share and can help each other answer. when care teachers and families keep each other informed of the toddler's emerging interests and the significant events in her life, they can help the toddler put her knowledge, feelings,and questions into words that, in turn,help parents and teachers better support her