Fran Abrams asks whether children need to be taught emotional and social skills in school.

Kids tend to have better social, emotional and cognitive skills.

Q. What new emotional skills need to be learned?

Manners of the Heart provides students with the social and emotional skills they need to succeed.

This approach is part of a course on emotional skills.

Children develop emotional skills such as learning to deal with the emotion of anger, through play activities.

As a result, camp directors must train their staff to coach emotional skills, along with athletics and the arts.

Develop key social and emotional skills that are integral to the functioning of a healthy family.

Now, trust, stress management and other emotional skills are explicitly taught at the district's middle schools.

Learning these emotional skills at the cusp of adolescence may be especially helpful.