1. From the editor...

   • Randa Roen

   EditorialNotes Pages: 4 - 4

2. Join With Other Centers To Produce... A creative arts festival

   • Jean Linder
   • Ronald Linder
   • Miriam Piercy

   Features Pages: 6 - 9

3. A parent-teacher conference: Interpreting Margaret Mahler

   • William Ayers

   Features Pages: 10 - 11

4. Lulling them to sleep

   • Martha Christine

   Features Pages: 12 - 13

5. Successful staff selection

   • Catheryn J. Weitman

   Features Pages: 14 - 15

6. Murphy's law in the child care center, or, what to do when anything that can go wrong does

   • Palmyra LoMonaco

   Features Pages: 16 - 17

7. Today I dance: What children want after school

   • Sandra Kolb
   • Anne Strickland

   Features Pages: 19 - 21

8. Special stresses of infant caregiving

   • Gerri Ginsburg
   • Derk Richardson
   • Marcy Whitebook

   Features Pages: 22 - 24

9. Readiness: Should we make them ready or let them bloom?

   • Rosalind Charlesworth

   Features Pages: 25 - 27

10. Safetyrama: Teaching children about traffic safety and drunk driving

    • Ernest J. Cipullo

    Features Pages: 28 - 31

11. What's your word?

    • Elizabeth A. Hasson

    Features Pages: 32 - 33

12. Safely home

    • Susan Culang

    Departments Pages: 34 - 35

13. I found purple

    • Rose C. Merenda

    Departments Pages: 36 - 36

14. Spring weather

    • Carolyn Buhai Haas

    Departments Pages: 37 - 39

15. Stuffed bears

    • Madalynne Schoenfeld

    Departments Pages: 40 - 41

16. A classic on families and schools

    • Amy Laura Dombro

    Departments Pages: 42 - 42

17. Sexual assault prevention

    • Alice Sterling Honig

    Departments Pages: 43 - 43

18. Developing visual comprehension: Figure-ground discrimination

    • Sandra Anselmo

    Departments Pages: 44 - 44

19. American Educational Research Aassociation

    Departments Pages: 47 - 47

20. Affiliation change

    • Inez D. Moyer

    Departments Pages: 47 - 47