When children attend preschool, they broaden their social horizons and become more engaged with those around them. Impulses are channeled into fantasies, which leaves the task of the caretaker to balance eagerness for pursuing adventure, creativity and self expression with the development of responsibility. If caretakers are properly encouraging and consistently disciplinary, children are more likely to develop positive self-esteem while becoming more responsible, and will follow through on assigned activities.{{Citation needed|date=November 2007}} If not allowed to decide which activities to perform, children may begin to feel guilt upon contemplating taking initiative.{{Citation needed|date=November 2007}}  This negative association with independence will lead them to let others make decisions in place of them.

When children attend preschool, they broaden their social horizons and become more engaged with those around them. Impulses are channeled into fantasies, which leaves the task of the caretaker to balance eagerness for pursuing adventure, creativity and self expression with the development of responsibility. If caretakers are properly encouraging and consistently disciplinary, children are more likely to develop positive self-esteem while becoming more responsible, and will follow through on assigned activities.{{Citation needed|date=November 2007}} If not allowed to decide which activities to perform, children may begin to feel guilt upon contemplating taking initiative.{{Citation needed|date=November 2007}}  This negative association with independence will lead them to let others make decisions in place of them.