What do we mean by emotional literacy? How can a combination of parents, schools and the wider community promote children's emotional and mental wellbeing?
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TMA 03 Dana Cairns U288074X What do we mean by emotional literacy? How can a combination of parents, schools and the wider community promote children's emotional and mental wellbeing? Over the next few paragraphs I shall be looking at what is meant by emotional literacy. I shall examine how and why children need to be 'taught' ways of expressing themselves and how adults, although thinking they are shielding there children from stresses at home, could actually be suppressing their opportunities for ways of dealing with these tensions and adversity. I shall also look at various case studies and see how schools are introducing ways for children to be more emotionally literate. Finally I will draw a conclusion on how, by being emotionally literate and resilient, children's adult life will be affected. In the same way that we talk about ourselves as being able to read and write;0 being literate, so too, we all...

