Social-Emotional Development-Empathy

Empathy  is the ability to feel another person's emotion or  as they say "yes I feel your pain".

It is very important for you to teach your infant/toddler empathy.It begins simply when you smile at your baby and she responds with a smile. She is feeling your emotion . When Ajani learned that he can bite things one day he bit his mom . She pretended to cry he stood up and looked at her and he began to cry also. He was about 16 months old . He has not bitten her since.
He is now able to describe emotions . He uses the words sad and happy . We also have conversations with him where we use these word and point out the behaviors.
Now when he sees a child crying he will say "mama he is sad". The roots of these life skills are planted during years 0-3 when the brain is being wired.

You should be mindful that you are building a brain.