wild children
Kids gone feral
Wild children are kids who behave in unrestrained, energetic, or unruly ways—running, screaming, ignoring rules: Those wild children knocked over the display.
The term also refers to feral children raised outside human society, allegedly by animals or in isolation, like the famous cases of wolf children in India.
Such children typically lack language and social behaviors.
- survival skillsKnowledge for staying alive
- runMove swiftly on foot
- autodidacticLearning independently, without instruction
- unschooledLacking formal instruction
- hideConceal or pelt
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