Family and Kids

Family and Kids

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Work Life Balance
The term work life balance relates to a harmonious state where the demands of work and home life are in equilibrium. In other words, people with a good work life balance do not have too...

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Early Childhood Education
Also known as nursery education, early childhood education is the process of teaching younger children, usually through play and exploration, that prepares them for more formal school e...

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Adoption
Put simply; adoption occurs when an adult takes over the responsibility for raising a child until they become an adult even though they are not the biological parent. Of course, some pe...

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Puberty
Puberty is the term that covers a wide range of changes that occur in mammals as they transition from childhood to adulthood. In people, puberty typically starts in girls when they reac...

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Primary Education
Primary education is a term that refers to the formal teaching of children after they have progressed from pre-school settings and before they have reached secondary school. Although th...

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Attachment Parenting
The idea behind attachment parenting methods is that they promote a greater sense of attachment between a parent and an infant. There are seven so-called Bs behind the theory which are ...

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Assisted Living
The term assisted living has slightly different meanings where in the world you happen to be talking about it. In the main, however, it is a Western concept that means some people – usu...

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Pets
Pets are animals that live with us and share our lives. Even if you don't have pets under your roof – such as a horse that lives in its own stable – they are important to us at an emoti...

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Fertility
Fertility relates to the ability to produce a new generation of a living thing. In the wider world, including plants, microbes and animals, fecundity tends to be the term that is used i...

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Caregiving
In its broadest sense, caregiving is an act that helps to deliver care to an individual or group that would not necessarily be able to undertake certain actions themselves. This usually...

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Parenting
At its simplest, parenting is the sum of all of the interactions there are between an adult and a child throughout their upbringing. It can be carried out by a biological parent, a step...

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Family Activities
At their simplest, family activities are defined as a pursuit that a family takes part in as a coherent group. Not all family members need to be present for a family activity to take pl...

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Community Living
Community living is where a group of people reside among one another to form a community that is based on certain shared demographics, interests or ideologies. In some cases, lots of pe...

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Quality Time
Quality time, sometimes shortened to QT, is a phrase that refers to moments of greater value than other occasions, usually spent in the company of people who are most important to us. B...

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Pregnancy
Pregnancy is the period of gestation which, in all mammals, means the time when a fertilised egg develops into an embryo and, later, a foetus within the womb of the mother. In most case...