Do boys still find it more difficult than girls to express their emotions? Should boys receive extra encouragement to help them open up?
At primary level the Government is already piloting `social, emotional and behavioural strategies', with plans to roll them out to secondary schools eventually. The children's charity Childline is running a `Boys Allowed' campaign to tackle the fact that four times as many girls as boys use the service.
Children's author and former teacher Pete Johnson believes boys feel just as reluctant to show their feelings now as they did when he was at school more than 20 years ago. He joins Jenni and journalist Jennie Bristow to discuss whether embedding emotional literacy in the curriculum can help both sexes to flourish.
