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in child care. Although the child-care toddlers received

lower levels of care from care providers in the centers,

their mothers engaged them in more social interactions

during non-working hours than did the mothers of home-only

toddlers, which suggests that families using child care

provided different patterns of care than families not using

child care. Child-care toddlers experienced high levels of

emotional support at home, although they experienced less

prompt responses to their distress signals. Mothers’ ages

were unrelated to the amounts of time toddlers spent with

them, but older mothers initiated more closeness.

The next article I wrote on was ?Friendship and Social

Competence in a Sample of Preschool Children Attending Head

Start.? Relations between friendship and social competence

were studied for children (mostly African American)

attending Head Start. Initial analyses showed that children

with reciprocated friends had higher social competence

scores than children without reciprocated friends.

Correlation?s suggested that the number of changed

friendships was associated with the social ability

indicators studied here. Beyond the cost of having no

reciprocated friends, having non-reciprocated friendships

was not a liability. Cross-time analysis suggested differing

patterns of relations for boys and girls. Having, versus not

having a reciprocated friend was unstable across time,

because there was a trend toward participating in

reciprocated friendships from 3 to 4 years of age (most

older children had at least one reciprocated friend). For

girls there was a positive relation between the number of