Piaget's concept of egocentrism has become so ingrained in people's thinking about young children that too often the current research on social awareness in infancy and early childhood has been overlooked. Research increasingly shows that young children are more socially sensitive and perceptive than was previously envisioned, suggesting that parents and teachers can help them to better understand and interact with in the social world by how they interact with them

Explanation: according to (Fabes et al., 2006). Social competence is generally characterized as the effectiveness of a child in social interactions with peers and adults. Parents are the first to interact with a child from infancy, so, their method of interaction can help shape children's social interaction with others outside the home. When a child starts school, he tends to spend more time in school than at home, hence, his teachers input in his social interaction is so strong that it has a huge impact on the child.