Educators recognize children's social competence as an indicator of school readiness. Children's social competence may be promoted prior to kindergarten through parents' discipline. We assessed parent discipline as a predictor of 37 low-income pre-schoolers' social skills over four months. Parents answered open-ended questions about how they would…

Observed 19 preschool children at lunch for 20 days to determine the effects of imposed silence at lunch on the amount of food consumed during meals in a nursery school setting. Found that imposing silence during mealtime did not increase food consumption but did foster a stressful atmosphere. (MM)

To measure the influence of teacher inservice training on behavior management techniques, a study investigated the behavior management techniques of both teachers and parents of preschool children, especially preschoolers with behavior problems. Findings indicated that parents are less punitive than teachers who have higher expectations, even…