| A | B |
|---|
| caregivers | People who tend to children's needs |
| heredity | biological characteristics from earlier generations |
| environment | people, places and things that influence people |
| developmental tasks | different skills or challenges that must be met at different stages of life |
| self-esteem | how a person views themselves in terms of worth |
| subjective observation | relies on opinions adn feelings |
| objective observation | relies on facts |
| anecdotal record | observation of one specific area of development |
| emotional maturity | ability to consistently put someone else's needs before your own |
| nuclear family | a mother, father and at least one child |
| custodial parent | the parent with whom the child resides |
| extended family | parents, children and relatives that live with them |
| legal guardian | a person that has been granted by a legal process to be financially responsible for a child |
| deprivation | a lack of necessary needs: physical, emotional, intellectual. |
| self-discipline | the ability to control one's own behavior |
| conscience | an inner sense of what is right |
| sequence | an order of steps |
| human life cycle | stages from birth to death in a person's life |
| baseline | a count taken before any actions are taken to change something |
| paternity | legally identifies the father |
