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  2. Free-range parenting - Wikipedia

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    Children riding a horse to school, Glass House Mountains. Free-range parenting is the concept of raising children in the spirit of encouraging them to function independently and with limited parental supervision, in accordance with their age of development and with a reasonable acceptance of realistic personal risks.

  3. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...

  4. Concerted cultivation - Wikipedia

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    The techniques of child rearing that a parent uses when raising a child ultimately have a great effect on the child and how he or she develops [citation needed]. The difference between the two types presented by Annette Lareau is that concerted cultivation will in most cases provide a child with skills and advantages over natural growth ...

  5. Parenting - Wikipedia

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    [1] The most common caretakers in parenting are the biological parents of the child in question. However, a caretaker may be an older sibling, step-parent, grandparent, legal guardian, aunt, uncle, other family members, or a family friend. [2] Governments and society may also have a role in child-rearing

  6. International English Language Testing System - Wikipedia

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    International English Language Testing System (IELTS / ˈ aɪ. ɛ l t s /) [6] is an international standardized test of English language proficiency for non-native English language speakers. It is jointly managed by the British Council, IDP and Cambridge English, [6] and was established in 1989. IELTS is one of the major English-language tests ...

  7. Kibbutz communal child rearing and collective education

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    Kibbutz Eilon children arrange their clothes in the common closet. The sack of clean laundry lies in front. Communal child rearing was the method of education that prevailed in the collective communities in Israel (kibbutz; plural: kibbutzim), until about the end of the 1980s. Collective education started on the day of birth and went on until ...

  8. Child discipline - Wikipedia

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    ISBN 978-0802403476 (Love language profiling available online at no cost). Miller, Alice (1983). For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence. ISBN 0-374-52269-3 (available online at no cost). Miller, Alice. The Untouched Key: Tracing Childhood Trauma in Creativity and Destructiveness. ISBN 0-385-26764-9. Yilu Zhao.

  9. Parenting styles - Wikipedia

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    Father and children reading. According to a literature review by Christopher Spera (2005), Darling and Steinberg (1993) suggest that it is important to better understand the differences between parenting styles and parenting practices: "Parenting practices are defined as specific behaviors that parents use to socialize their children", while parenting style is "the emotional climate in which ...