Within our effort to balance very full and hectic lives with our families and our work, we may have been neglecting a good all-important facet of our child’s existence: their emotional well-being. The first three years of a child’s life is a critical period for a child, and the trauma of changing child care providers or having a ‘part-time’ parent float out and in of their life can be very traumatic and destabilizing for them. It’s imperative that parents, educators, involved adults and care providers create a concerted joint effort to ensure that a child’s emotional needs tend to be met on a daily basis, just as their own physical needs are. The effects of not meeting a child’s emotional needs, especially throughout the first three years of existence, can have devastating consequences. Violent, disruptive or defiant behaviors can result.