Presented are the keynote address and sectional presentations made at a conference on early childhood education. Speakers offered various perspectives on high quality programs for children and families. The keynote address, given by Bettye Caldwell, concerned marketing quality programs for children, exploring internal and external deterrents, communicating with targeted market segments, formulating messages, and completing a plan of action. Sectional presentations concerned the role of the interactive videodisc in early childhood teacher education, the process of enhancing creativity in early childhood, the reciprocal link in work family systems, the process of informing parents about early writing, the challenge of working with fathers, practical principles and skills related to building self-esteem in children, development of preschool music programs, and parental singing during pregnancy and infancy as a way of developing positive bonding and the human intelligences. An index of presenters and their addresses is included. (RH)