This chapter describes multimodal and multisensorial practices for interacting with, caring for, and socializing children in various cultural communities worldwide. It outlines multisensorial socialization processes, focusing on how touch is used, together with other modalities, in adults’ responses to children’s distress across different communities and age groups. Socializing potentials of these practices regarding emotion and moral personhood, the child’s autonomy, and peer-group relations are discussed, as well as culturally specific forms of change during childhood. Infants and young children become members of their community as they are interacted with and socialized not only as verbal, but also as embodied subjects whose verbal and bodily actions, emotions, and moral conduct are monitored, corrected, and shaped by adults in normatively relevant ways that change throughout the child’s development. Adults’ responses to children’s crying provide a fruitful resource for uncovering the sociocultural assumptions of how to perform actions, express emotions, and maintain relationships.