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

School

Stages

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

Methods and theories

Instruction content and tools

Children reading at a school in Laos

Elsewhere

Preschool

Nursery playground in Bingley, England (2012)

Childcare

Extracurricular and informal

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

Growth and development

Stages of formative period

Aspects

Social development

Personal care

Physical development and growth

Intellectual and cognitive development

Complications and divergence

Innate

In life

Society and Law

Inupiat Eskimo family in Alaska (1929)

Family and guardianship

Relations

Concepts

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

Behaviour management

Child protection and welfare

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

Harm

Child abuse

Vulnerable situations and possible abuse

History of children in society

Engraving from the Roman Empire depicts children playing

Specific times and places

Children's entertainment and leisure

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

Media and literature

Further information: Childhood in literature

Toys and games

See also

References

  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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