Parent Engagement and School Readiness: Effects of the Getting Ready Intervention on Preschool Children's Social—Emotional Competencies

Parental engagement is an important contributor to preschool children's school readiness. The effectiveness of the Getting Ready parental intervention program was examined in the study. Two groups of children were randomly assigned to the intervention condition or the control condition, and results revealed that the intervention was effective at building children's social-emotional competencies, which in turn built children's school readiness.