Research Says This is What You Need to Teach Your Kids in Kindergarten If You Ever Want Them to Go to College or Get a Job

By Rachel Gillett

Career success could be predicted as early as kindergarten, according to a 20-year study recently published in the American Journal of Public Health.

Researchers from Pennsylvania State University and Duke University tracked more than 700 children from across the US between kindergarten and age 25 and found a significant correlation between their social skills as kindergartners and their success as adults two decades later.

In 1991, teachers assessed how the kindergartners interacted with each other socially using a range of criteria like whether they cooperate with their peers without prompting, if they're helpful to others, whether they're good at understanding feelings, and if they can resolve problems on their own.