Mother education: A big factor for soft skills development among children

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Poonam Rani and Bimla Dhanda (Department of Human Development and Family Studies, I.C. College of Home Science, CCSHAU, Hisar, Haryana)

Maternal education has positive impacts on soft skills and social skills of children. Soft skills including effective communication, social, professional ethics, problem solving, decision-making, and organizational skills are needed in adventure education to enhance the learning of children. The study was conducted in Hisar district of Haryana state. Two areas were selected purposively i.e., rural and urban, from urban area Hisar city and from rural area two villages namely Balsmand and Kharia were taken for collection of data. A total of 200 children in three age groups, namely, 3, 4 and 5 years were selected for the study. Maternal education was independent variable. Soft skills and social skills were taken as dependent variable. Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scale of Social Maturity (Sparrow et al., 1935) was used to determine soft skills and social skills among children. Result revealed that soft and social skills were significantly related with mother education (c2 = 27.73**) and (c2 = 12.36*) in rural areas but both skills were not significant with mother education in urban (c2 = 2.45) and (2 = 1.29) areas.