| Christine Carter, Phd says " One of the top | | | | even longer. Children that are going into middle school |
| fundamental keys to well-being and mental health is | | | | " for people who have had emotional literacy |
| emotional literacy." She is with the Greater Good | | | | classes, they have less problems than their peers, and |
| Science Center at UC Berkeley, and says that for | | | | feel less compelled through social pressure, to try |
| emotional literacy in children, as well as good | | | | drugs and alcohol, and academic stress are also not |
| development of character, there exists a small time | | | | such a demanding factor for them. These people have |
| opportunity to be taken benefit of quickly. Psychiatrist | | | | learned to be aware of the emotions of others, as well |
| and President of the Carnegie Corporation, Dr. David | | | | as their own. Character, is the word that the skill set of |
| Hamburg, says from the ages of 6 to 11 " school | | | | emotional literacy symbolizes, and character involves |
| is a defining and important experience, that will add a | | | | self-discipline, delayed gratification, self- motivation, and |
| lot of influence to the adolescence of children and | | | | self-control. |