The WHO provides expanded tables for constructing national health cards based on weight-for-age standards, aiding in child growth monitoring and assessment.
If multiple people each have a first child, are those children collectively referred to as first children or first childs? The former seems more consistent with the usual plural of child, but the l...
The WHO Child Growth StandardsThis web site presents the WHO Child Growth Standards. These standards were developed using data collected in the WHO Multicentre Growth Reference Study. The site presents documentation on how the physical growth curves and motor milestone windows of achievement were developed as well as application tools to support implementation of the standards.
I don't think there is a single term for that, only child is the more common expression used in the English language: In a family with multiple offspring, first-borns may be briefly considered only children and have a similar early family environment, but the term only child is generally applied only to those individuals who never have siblings. (Wikipedia) Ngram shows usages of the expression ...
My dear child/Child, come here/He is but a child! But I don't see kid. In fact, I didn't see kid even in the contemporary work A Series of Unfortunate Events when I was reading it (unless I missed it). Children was still used there. So, my question is: When did "kid" become used to mean "child"? Is it less formal to use "kid" than "child"?
For example, if you're a parent, you refer to your offspring as a 'child' and the child refers to you as their 'parent'. I am asking because I need to have a term for the relationship of a guardian to the child.
Preschool seems to be the word typically used for children's education before they enter elementary school. But how do we call a child who has finished preschool education? Is it valid to use presc...
