When Should Grown-Ups Stop Fights?

Vassar College's Department of Child Study produced this training film for nursery school staff, one of a series on Preschool Incidents. Unstaged playground scenes of two to five-year-olds in conflict are shown, then repeated for further analysis and discussion. We learn how to size-up situations, differentiating between playful attacks the kids can adequately handle themselves and truly aggressive behavior (as when a child has gone on a rampage) that requires immediate adult intervention.