Being ready for kindergarten is more than just learning letters and numbers. Child care providers support school readiness by helping young children learn social and emotional skills that contribute to school success. Kindergarten teachers say it is the social and emotional skills that children learn in child care that are most needed in elementary school. Child care providers play a crucial role in preparing young children for kindergarten, socially as well as intellectually.
Key Takeaways:
- found a link between a child’s social skills in kindergarten and how well they were doing in early adulthood.
- Children who were helpful and shared in kindergarten were more likely to have graduated college and have a full-time job at age 25
- children who had problems resolving conflicts, sharing, cooperating and listening as kindergartners were less likely to have finished high school and college, and they were more likely to have substance abuse problems and run-ins with the law.
“Every parent intuitively knows it’s a good thing to teach their child how to share and play well with others and how to deal with emotions like anger and sadness, but do most of us have any sense of just how important these so-called social and emotional skills can be to our child’s long-term success?”
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