Abstract
In this article the results of the child perspective studies (Nentwig-Gesemann, Walther & Thedinga, 2017; Nentwig-Gesemann et al., 2021), which focused on the question of kindergarten quality from the perspective of four to six year old children, are considered in a different theoretical context or framework (reframe): that of subjective well-being and mental health. This re-framing, which is not a re-interpretation but an alternative interpretation of existing research findings leads to a new model of subjective well-being from the child's perspective, in which four dimensions of well-being are distinguished for the kindergarten context: personal well-being; social well-being; space-, time- and thing-related well-being; organisational well-being.