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Princeton's WordNet

  1. infancy, babyhood, early childhoodnoun

    the early stage of growth or development

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  1. Early childhood

    Early childhood is a stage in human development following infancy and preceding middle childhood. It generally includes toddlerhood and some time afterward. Play age is an unspecific designation approximately within the scope of early childhood.

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  1. early childhood

    Early childhood refers to the initial developmental period of a human's life from birth until the age of eight. It is a crucial stage where cognitive, social, emotional and physical development occur. This period is often subdivided into the infant/toddler period (birth to 2 years), preschool period (3-5 years) and the early school years (6-8 years). Activities and experiences during early childhood significantly influence an individual's behavior, health, and well-being throughout their life.

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  1. Early childhood

    Early childhood is a stage in human development. It generally includes toddlerhood and some time afterwards. Play age is an unspecific designation approximately within the scope of early childhood.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of early childhood in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of early childhood in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of early childhood in a Sentence

  1. Mrs. Sigourney:

    In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry of idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.

  2. Jenny Radesky:

    The biggest takeaway for parents is that sleep is part of self-regulation. We need to wake our brains up, and settle them back down. We need to handle fears and separation from our loved ones, for this reason, sleep is usually much harder for children with self-regulation problems in early childhood -- whether due to anxiety, early ADHD, sensory integration challenges, trauma or lots of other developmental differences that may not rise to the level of a diagnostic label.

  3. Tim Ryan:

    I think the focus is marijuana crimes, in my mind, right, we spend — this may be the stupidest expenditure of federal money in taxpayer money in the history of our country. You get caught with marijuana, then you end up in prison. That's insane for us. We should tax the marijuana and put it into addiction treatment, we should use it to keep fentanyl and these hardcore drugs out of our country, out of our society. We should invest in the shop class, we should invest into early childhood education.

  4. Eric Bettinger of Stanford University:

    For years, we have known that parental presence is extraordinarily important in the very early childhood years. What we’re finding is that parents continue to be important much further along in a child’s life than we had previously thought.

  5. Leonardo Trasande:

    Pound for pound, children eat more food and therefore have a higher level of exposure compared to us adults, in addition, their developing organ systems are uniquely vulnerable. ... There can be fundamental disruptions in various endocrine functions that can manifest not only in early childhood but potentially in later life as a result of prenatal or infant exposure.


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