age appropriate
Fitting one's years
Age appropriate describes content, activities, or expectations suited to a particular stage of development.
What's age appropriate for teenagers differs from what's age appropriate for toddlers: The movie contains violence that isn't age appropriate for young children.
The term appears frequently in discussions of media ratings, education, and parenting, where it can become contentious—people disagree about when children are ready for certain information or experiences.
- developmentalRelated to growth stages
- maturityFull growth achieved
- childhoodLife's earliest phase
- readinessState of being prepared
- suitableProper for purpose
young readers · milestones · early childhood · content · rating · rated R · guidance · parental · parental controls · innocence · adolescent · teen · preschool · toddler · cognitive · boundaries · exposure · sheltered
- age-gap romanceage difference, older man, older woman, younger woman, cougar
- content ratingsMPAA, rating system, movie rating, movie ratings, TV ratings
- appearance idiomsall dolled up, dolled up, done up, dressed to kill, dressed to the nines
age appropriateinappropriate
Not suitable or fitting
unsuitable · explicit · R-rated · harmful · ill-suited
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