Parenting practices and its consequence on the social competences of preschool children: in the case of Indale and Bubu kindergarten schools

The study was mainly to focus on parenting practices and its consequence on the social competences of kindergarten children in Indale and Bubu kindergarten Schools in Mettu town. For this study the primary data which was collected through well designed questionnaires and interview items. Simple random sampling techniques were employed to selected participants of this study from those schools. Using this technique, 50 samples were selected and involved in the study as primary source of data. The collected data was summarized and analyzed used descriptive statistics such as percentage along with table and charts. The result of the current study indicates that those parents that employ authoritative parenting practices had children who scored highest on measuring social competences development screening tools. Finally recommendation were forwarded based the finding of this study.