Abstract
At a day-care center (DCC) the behavior of 1 to 3-year-old children was studied in an away-from-home environment. The children's behavior was observed a) before, during and after daily leave-taking of their parents, and b) during everyday DCC routine as well as in a comparative situation when a parent was present. Children who showed a long leave-taking phase played less during the first half-hour after leave-taking. Children to whom it was possible to make a comparison showed more “aside-behavior” and grief behavior as well as less initiatives to contact adults when their parents were absent than they did in their presence. Some children produced various substitute stimuli for parental presence while their parent was absent. These conspicuous behaviors which were observed are discussed in this paper as being reactions to the situation of being left by the parents. The extent of playing behavior seems to be a measurable indicator which may be used to determine the subsidence of excitement after the parent's leave-taking.
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