Selected parental factors influencing learners’ transition from home to public preschools of nyabondo Zone Nyakach Sub-County-Kisumu-Kenya

The study investigated the selected parental factors influencing learners Transition from Home to Public Preschools of Nyabondo Zone, Nyakach Sub-county-Kisumu-Kenya. The research was informed by Social Cultural Theory of Vigotsky supported by ecological theory of Bronfenbren-ner. This study adopted a sequential explanatory design with which both Quantitative and Qua-litative approach were adopted. The study population constituted 400 baby class children, 20 head teachers, 20 preschool teachers from public preschools; picked out through simple random and saturated sampling respectively. The research instruments that were used parents’ interviews and both head teachers and preschool teachers Questioning. The validity of the research instru-ments was ensured through expert judgments by university lectures in the department of Educa-tion. To test the reliability of the instruments, the researcher employed the test-retest and correla-tion coefficient of 0.622 was reported. The Pearson correlation test established a strong positive of 0.763 influences on the two variables. The study recommended that their parents should come up with devices to ease separation anxiety by making some children of the school going age have basic self-care skills to smoothen transition from Home to preschool.