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Outline of childhood

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to childhood:

Children – biologically, a child (plural: children) is generally a human between the stages of birth and puberty. Some definitions include the unborn (termed fetus).[1] The legal definition of "child" generally refers to a minor, otherwise known as a person younger than the age of majority. "Child" may also describe a relationship with a parent or authority figure, or signify group membership in a clan, tribe, or religion; it can also signify being strongly affected by a specific time, place, or circumstance, as in "a child of nature" or "a child of the Sixties."[2]

Child education

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School

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Stages

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Children eating lunch at school in Penasco, New Mexico (1941)

Methods and theories

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Instruction content and tools

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Children reading at a school in Laos

Elsewhere

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Preschool

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Nursery playground in Bingley, England (2012)

Childcare

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Extracurricular and informal

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Children doing crafts during an event promoting after-school activities at a youth center linked to Fort Novosel, Alabama

Growth and development

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Stages of formative period

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Aspects

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Social development

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Personal care

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Physical development and growth

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Intellectual and cognitive development

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Complications and divergence

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Innate

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In life

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Society and Law

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Inupiat Eskimo family in Alaska (1929)

Family and guardianship

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Relations

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Concepts

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2000s era PEGI notice indicating that a Video game is unsuitable for children under the age of fifteen

Behaviour management

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Child protection and welfare

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Adoption form used in the United Kingdom or dependant territories (the approved stamp seems to have been added for artistic effect)

Harm

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Child abuse

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Vulnerable situations and possible abuse

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History of children in society

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Engraving from the Roman Empire depicts children playing

Specific times and places

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Children's entertainment and leisure

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Children's toys displayed in a window in Ultrecht (2017)

Media and literature

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Toys and games

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ See Shorter Oxford English Dictionary 397 (6th ed. 2007), which's the first definition is "A fetus; an infant;...". See also ‘The Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary: Complete Text Reproduced Micrographically’, Vol. I (Oxford University Press, Oxford 1971): 396, which defines it as: ‘The unborn or newly born human being; fetus, infant’.
  2. ^ "American Heritage Dictionary". 2007-12-07. Archived from the original on 2007-12-29.
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