When Should Grown-Ups Stop Fights?

When Should Grown-Ups Stop Fights? (1955) is a documentary film directed by Mary Fisher Langmuir, Eveline Omwake, Lawrence Joseph Stone.

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.

Cast

Lawrence Joseph Stone

Narration