Family support Family life provides high levels of love and support. Positive family communication Parents and preschoolers communicate positively. Preschoolers seek out parents for help with difficult tasks or situations.
Preschoolers have support from at least one adult other than their parents.
Their parents have support from people outside the home. Caring neighborhood Preschoolers experience caring neighbors. Parents communicate preschoolers needs to caretakers outside the home. Community values children Parents and other adults in the community value and appreciate preschoolers. Parents and other adults create ways preschoolers can help out and gradually include preschoolers in age-appropriate tasks.