Abstract
Data on ordinary metropolitan day care centers without access to special training or university research personnel to monitor programs is in short supply. This study of toddler‐teacher interactions in metropolitan day care examines adult responsiveness to toddler bids, as a function of circumstance, type of toddler bid, and sex of child. About one‐quarter of all toddler bids to caregivers were ignored. Toddlers made few requests for information. Although male and female toddlers were equally compliant to teacher bids, caregivers responded to significantly more non‐compliance by males and gave them significantly more mixed #oppositive and negative#cp bids. In genera#cp, the data indicate that toddler teachers in ordinary day care need to become more aware of the kinds and quality of their responses to toddlers, to the need for more positive bids to males, and the importance of open‐ended questions.
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