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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 edit

School edit

Stages edit

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

Methods and theories edit

Instruction content and tools edit

 
Children reading at a school in Laos

Elsewhere edit

Preschool edit

 
Nursery playground in Bingley, England (2012)

Childcare edit

Extracurricular and informal edit

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

Growth and development edit

Stages of formative period edit

Aspects edit

Social development edit

Personal care edit

Physical development and growth edit

Intellectual and cognitive development edit

Complications and divergence edit

Innate edit

In life edit

Society and Law edit

 
Inupiat Eskimo family in Alaska (1929)

Family and guardianship edit

Relations edit

Concepts edit

Legal rights, responsibilities and restrictions edit

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

Behaviour management edit

Child protection and welfare edit

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

Harm edit

Child abuse edit

Vulnerable situations and possible abuse edit

History of children in society edit

 
Engraving from the Roman Empire depicts children playing

Specific times and places edit

Children's entertainment and leisure edit

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

Media and literature edit

Toys and games edit

See also edit

References edit

  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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