Throughout daily interactions with our students we focus intensely in coaching them emotional literacy. Emotional literacy is the ability to identify, understand, and respond to emotions in oneself and others in a healthy manner. Children with emotional literacy are healthier, tolerate frustration better, have fewer fights and show less destructive behavior. They are also less lonely, more focused, not as impulsive and demonstrate greater academic achievement. It order to demonstrate emotional literacy, children must be able to identify, understand, and respond to their own emotions and the emotions of others. To help a child self-regulate the teacher needs to pay close attention and help a child notice the triggers that come with strong emotions; During the preschool years, the children can learn the basics of emotional literacy as well as social interactions such as saying" hi" and "bye", taking turns, saying "sorry, please, thank you" and problem-solving. We focus on helping the children learn to resolve their interpersonal conflicts in a peaceful and nonviolent way. A teacher models companionate behavior and helps children establish conscious awareness about their wants and needs. The teacher’s behavior sets the tone in the classroom and demonstrates the values of kindness, generosity, thoughtfulness and understanding. We encourage the children to express their feelings in a positive, acceptable way, and show empathy.