An Evaluation of the Effects of Nursery School Training on Children in the Kindergarten, First and Second Grades

Exclusive early mothering and its alternatives The Outcome to Adolescence

“…But empirical evidence on the daily separation of under-twos is almost entirely confined agree with those of Hattwick (1936), May (1963), Janis (1964) and Van Leeuwen & Tuma (1972) who discuss the phenomenon at length: adjusting to the impact of so many children and so many new experiences in the absence of maternal support must place quite a severe strain on the adaptive powers of a young child. Most children cope by mastering their fears and becoming both more independent and more self-assertive or aggressive; but the subsequent adjustment of nursery school children, as to which there are conflicting findings (Allen & Masling, 1957;Brown & Hunt, 1%1;Douglas & Ross, 1%4;Sjolund, 1969) probably depends on their ability to temper their aggression and behave constructively in relation to peers and adults. Here again we need to know how much contact with parents, in combination with what kind of group experience from what age, is most conducive to such development.…”