There is no reason to describe the process of the emergence of emotion as occurring on its own. While the child has not yet turned his decisions into automatisms, these are his decisions, his actions. The emotions that children make are their behavior, the responsibility for this behavior is on them.
Emotions are a child’s toy.
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In the article “How a person learns to be offended,” Hiero wrote:
In early childhood, resentment arises precisely as frustration when existing expectations are deceived. And it causes feelings of frustration, depression, suffering, in short, a whole negatively evaluated complex of feelings and emotions.
There are questions about this position.
The child’s expectations can form — everything is fine, why not form, and not even gain a foothold as a template.
«Deception» of expectations — already, it seems, a fairy tale. Fraud. Something may or may not meet expectations, and deception is not a fact, but an assessment. Who chose to do it? For what purpose? And who is responsible for this?
Next — a chain of the following choices: what specific assessment to give (grateful for the experience or dissatisfied for straining?) What specific, for example, dissatisfied assessment — anger or resentment? Should assessment be transferred to the level of bodily experiences or left as intellectual knowledge? If a child has triggered a bodily resentment, then how (according to what logic) the following decisions of the child follow from the resentment: upset yourself? Suppress yourself? Make yourself suffer?
In summary: there is no reason to describe the process of the emergence of an emotion as occurring on its own. While the child has not yet turned his decisions into automatisms, these are his decisions, his actions. The emotions that children make are their behavior, the responsibility for this behavior is on them.