Does Your Child Lack Social Skills?
A national survey of 3,500 early childhood educators concludes that 46% of their students have difficulty following directions. They link this to poor social skills for todays entering children, and contrast their experience to that of previous generations, when children arrived at school with many more unstructured, unsupervised play hours each day. As such, it is suggested that children in previous generations had a "better grasp of how to work in groups and regulate selfish or destructive impulses." See "Schools Apply New Tools for Early Learning," in The Washington Post (November 14, 2011) B1.
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