child rearing

Bringing up kids

Child rearing is the process of raising children from infancy to adulthood—feeding, protecting, educating, and shaping their behavior and values.

The term emphasizes the sustained work involved: She wrote extensively about child rearing practices in different cultures.

Also spelled as one word or hyphenated: childrearing, child-rearing.

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empathy · moral reasoning · family values · resilience · emotional intelligence · bonding · quality time · independence · self-regulation · social skills · trust-building · lullaby · permissive · screen time management · tantrums · terrible twos · bedtime · infant

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care and nurture

child rearingchild neglect

Failure to care for minors

child abandonment · parental neglect · neglect · abandonment · child abuse

life stage focus

child rearingelder care

Assistance for seniors

geriatric care · end-of-life care · hospice care · senior care · elderly care

reproductive choice

child rearingchildlessness

Lacking any offspring

Family

child, rear, nurturing, parenting, rearing, upbringing, reared, rears, child-rearing

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