Abstract
Lifespan is a pool of stories that, in the beginning, sets the tone. It lays the foundation for students’ long-life learning, attitudes formation, behavioral modifications, and shapes the trajectories of students’ early childhood development (an important thread of United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Target 4.2 bedrock on “access to quality early childhood development, care pre-primary education” till 2030 with specific thread 4.2.1). Predominantly, a child’s healthy dynamics nail down to his/her cognitive development and emotional regulations are excogitated as a building block that gets a load on the teachers’ socio-demographic attributes. They are tossed around a supreme indicator and paramount countenance which works as an appetizer and nurtures infants’ cognitive and emotional empathy in schools. Knuckle down to the excellence of teachers’ socio-demographic attributes, the authors iced on the cake through quantitative ex-post-facto research leading to the positivist paradigm, on a sample of randomly selected 800 participants. The current research is planned in the sweat of the authors’ brow to ramify how teachers’ socio-demographic attributes prioritizes to promoting early childhood development and transitioning children’s cognitive and emotional empathy into school. After obtaining unfetter and unrestricted permission from the authors and ensuring ethical considerations, the researchers piloted a questionnaire to confirm Cronbach’s Alpha reliability statistics .798, .805, and .797. After applying the regression analysis technique, the researchers unmasked that teachers’ socio-demographic attributes affected 78.10% of children’s early childhood development, 59.70% of cognitive, and 72.40% of emotional development. Based on the results, the present research recommends that the Government of the Punjab has a lot on their plate through hiring experienced staff and providing them with induction and in-service training with good incentives to promote extra children’s social, emotional, cognitive and intellectual growth for empathy in schools. Moreover, the current quantifiable stumbling blocks might be examined through conducting qualitative and mixed-method research in public and private educational institutions; a burning dilemma neglected since independence and is a cause of concern for stakeholders.