Emotional Literacy applies to ALL children, regardless of their ethnic and socioeconomic background. IN NO WAY WHATSOEVER does this area of social & emotional development, for any preschool age child, suggest that a child has an emotional problem, quite the contrary, i.e., WHO could have guessed that over the past several years (particularly 2010, 2011 and 2012) our society would become consumed with discussions, TV specials, criminal trials and efforts towards understanding and preventing BULLYING (particularly in school environments at all grade levels)? Highly esteemed Dr. Daniel Goleman points out http://tinyurl.com/6o6nfmq. FFEC has made significant, easy-to-use, common sense advances in the area of “emotional literacy,”  primarily by making it crystal clear that EMPATHY - the ability to understand and share the feelings of others - is essential to a preschooler’s development.