Parenting Word Scramble
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| Term | Definition |
| Bonding | forming strong emotional ties between individuals |
| Child development | the study of how children grow and change physically |
| Classification | the process of mentally grouping objects or ideas into categories or groups based on some unique feature |
| Cooperative play | activity in which children actually play with one another |
| Directed learning experiences | learning experiences that are planned with a specific goal in mind |
| Environment | a person's surroundings and everything in them, including both human and non-human factors |
| Failure to thrive | a condition in which the baby does not grow or develop properly |
| Imitation | learning that occurs by watching and copying the actions of others |
| Individual life cycle | a series of stages a person passes through during his or her lifetime; includes infant, toddler, preschool, school age, and adolescence |
| Large motor skills | the use and control of the large muscles of the back, legs, shoulders, and arms |
| Moral behavior | to behave in ways that are acceptable to society and family |
| Object permanence | the concept in which an infant learns that people or things exist even when they are gone from sight |
| Parallel play | activity in which children play side by side without interacting |
| Puberty | the set of changes that gives a child a physically mature body able to reproduce |
| Reversibility | capable of going backward or forward through a series of actions or changes |
| Role model | a person that someone admires and wishes to pattern his or her behavior after |
| Separation anxiety | a child's fear of being away from parents, familiar caregivers, or the normal environment |
| Seriation | the ability to arrange items in an increasing or decreasing order based on weight, volume, number, or size; grouping by a common property |
| Small motor skills | an ability that depends on the use and control of the finer muscles of the wrist, finger, and ankles |
| Stranger anxiety | a baby's fear of unfamiliar people |
| Temper tantrum | a sudden outburst of anger in which children may kick, scream, cry, or hold their breath |
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