Evaluation of Mothers’ Daily Care of Their Three-year-old Children and Their Feelings toward Their Children as the Latter Settle into Kindergarten

Abstract

This study aims to investigate the type of care provided by mothers for their three-year-old children on a daily basis and elucidate their feelings toward their children as the latter join and settle into kindergarten.The following results were obtained: (1) Scores of child care behavior decreased after their children’s admission to kindergarten, but those of mothers’ companionship with their children showed no consistent tendency. (2) Mothers of children who speak about their friends and teachers and do the same thing as they did in the kindergarten that day at home, do not worry about their children not being able to make friends or of disobeying their teachers. (3) Mothers who worried about their child’s adjustment to kindergarten and felt lonely throughout the six-month study period were first-time mothers.