Abstract
This paper focuses on interactive emotion between adults and children and the reality of dialogue, and examines the adult's role in the process of children's expression. A child's emotional expression is "a system for relating to others", so children form relationships between themselves and others and this is based on basic trust built through emotional interaction with adults. Particularly, when children are involved in plastic arts, adults can help them form representation and systematize their expression through dialogue. However, to do this it is important that adults do not prepossess human models or have negative emotion. This paper examines this theme using episodes incorporating dialogue between children and adults. It also suggests a classification of the functions of the adult's emotions that direct children's expression, in the light of the mechanism of human emotions based on the hierarchy theory of the brain.
